Cheltenham Town midfielder Ian Westlake says he will have nothing to prove as he returns to former club Leeds United on Saturday.
Westlake will be going back to Elland Road for the first time since leaving to join the Robins, initially on loan, last October.
That move became permanent in January and although Westlake has made a positive impression at Whaddon Road, he is more concerned with impressing his own fans than making a point to Leeds'.
"I don't feel I have a point to prove with Leeds and my point to prove might actually be with Cheltenham," Westlake said.
"It's nice to play against your old club, but I don't feel like I have anything to put right there.
I am here now and I just want to play for the club and start to turn the results around."
Westlake joined Leeds from Ipswich in 2006, but could not prevent them from suffering relegation from the Championship at the end of his first season.
The 25-year-old was a regular for Leeds under the management of Dennis Wise last term, but Wise left to join Newcastle United and was replaced as boss by Gary McAllister in January 2008.
The left-footer was told that he did not figure in McAllister's plans and he was loaned to Brighton for the final two months of the campaign.
"Under Wisey, I felt I did well for Leeds," he said. "But under McAllister, I knew I wasn't going to play for Leeds again. That happens at a lot of places and it's happened here to players, but you have to get on with it."
Westlake played in Leeds' 1-0 defeat at Whaddon Road last season, but he was at Brighton when Cheltenham won the return match 2-1 at Elland Road last March.
"I remember at Whaddon Road we had four strikers on and we were throwing everything forward trying to get the win and they nicked one in the last minute," he recalled.
"We were pretty annoyed going home, but that probably hasn't crossed Leeds' minds. It's just another match and one they have to win as they want to get into the play-offs."
Cheltenham have lost six of their last seven league games and Westlake admitted that last weekend's 3-2 defeat by Hereford, who also beat Leeds 2-0 this week, was difficult to accept.
"I didn't sleep at all on Saturday night," he said.
"We played well for 90 minutes, but they had two deflections to win 3-2. It made me sick and it's still a bitter pill for me to swallow.
"That game really will stick with me for a while, but as much as that one hurt, maybe we will enjoy this one as much the opposite way when we beat Leeds."
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