Leeds face “six-pointer” against Burnley

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Daniel Wales and Lee Sobot preview Burnley vs. Leeds United.

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00:00how appropriate that the next fixture is away to Burnley.

00:04Of course, the other teams have defeated Leeds at Elm Road this season.

00:07It was a 1-0 loss back in the early part of the season.

00:10And to be fair, Leeds, it was one of those games where they probably should have got more out of it.

00:14So the chances that they missed in that one, but going to Turf Moor,

00:18it's going to be difficult for Leeds because, you know, Burnley have, what is it,

00:21nine goals they've conceded all season,

00:23which is quite remarkable at this point of the campaign.

00:27But if anyone's going to test that, it would and probably should be Leeds, to be honest.

00:33I mean, Sunderland nearly did, of course, in their fixture at Turf Moor, just gone.

00:38But Leeds, you'd think that Leeds have improved certainly since the last time the two sides met.

00:43And you'd think going into this one, this is a really big chance for Leeds to go

00:47and create a bigger gap between the two sides.

00:50And then you think, well, does that take Burnley out of the equation a little bit?

00:53If you create that gap a little bit to the automatic promotion,

00:56which, well, it certainly would be very welcome, wouldn't it?

01:00Yeah, I mean, obviously, that's the dream scenario. Go there and get the victory.

01:03And then it'd be, what would it be, a six-point gap of 17 games to go?

01:06I mean, which is still a long way to go.

01:09But obviously, you know, six points plus the better goal difference when Leeds,

01:13you know, in such words, aren't dropping points, you know, dramatically.

01:16I mean, they're basically winning most weekends or midweek.

01:19And when they're not, they're getting draws. So that would be a big gap.

01:22I think first and foremost thing for Leeds is go there and don't get beat.

01:25You know, that's the first thing.

01:26That's not to say that they're going to go there and play for a draw.

01:29I mean, that's not the case.

01:29You know what I mean? Like Daniel Farke has always said,

01:31Leeds want to be a protagonist and fully expect them to go for it.

01:34It's a really, really hard one to call this.

01:36I just wouldn't know. Or sometimes you get a gut feeling about,

01:39you know, what the result might be. But I mean, my first instincts

01:42when this fixture was coming around was I thought it'd be a goalless draw,

01:46to be honest, because, I mean, you talk about Burnley's,

01:48you know, not conceding many goals. And obviously the last two games at home

01:51have both been nil-nil, albeit you mentioned the Sunderland drama

01:53at the end in that one as well. But I mean, after seeing them score five

01:57in midweek, albeit against, you know, a not very good Plymouth side,

02:00I mean, you know, like, I mean, could you really see it being nil-nil?

02:03I don't know. It's a very, very hard one to call.

02:06It's staggering, like you say, the fact they've only conceded nine goals.

02:09I mean, that is an absolutely amazing stat. And obviously,

02:11they've only conceded four, I think it is, at home.

02:13So, I mean, if Leeds even go there and score, they're doing well,

02:16never mind anything else. But there's always been a little bit of a sort of belief,

02:20I think, amongst a lot of people that, you know, even though it's tight at the top,

02:23you know, even opposition managers, not the ones necessarily involved in the title race,

02:27have sort of said, you know, that there's a feeling that Leeds are actually,

02:30you know, a fair bit better than the rest and stuff.

02:32And if that's the case, it remains to be seen.

02:35But what I would say is that if that is the case,

02:38and you obviously just can't judge it on one game,

02:39then we'll definitely see in this game, won't we?

02:41You know, I mean, it honestly could be anything.

02:43It really could. Leeds could go there and, you know, prove much, much better and,

02:47you know, just go and get, you know, a really, really good, handsome win.

02:50It could be, like I say, like a real, like, cagey affair at a draw or something,

02:53or Burnley could come flying out the traps and,

02:55you know, and end up condemning Leeds for another away defeat.

02:58So, so difficult to call.

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