Leeds will look to use home advantage against Derby

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Daniel Wales and Lee Sobot preview Leeds United against Derby County at Elland Road.

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00:00We'll have a look now towards Derby at home on Saturday, another lunchtime kickoff, although

00:07this is a half 12, not the strangely odd one of that was a half first one kickoff against

00:11Blackburn. Yes, back to Elland Road, back at home. Derby, well, I mean, it is a game

00:20given Leeds' home form that they should be winning. Obviously, you have more confidence

00:24going into a game like this because they are at home, given what we've just mentioned there

00:28with regards to the home form compared to the away form. Obviously, games like this

00:34also at times can be potential banana skins, but realistically, it's a game that Leeds

00:39should be winning. It's a game that should be winning. It's too early to say must win,

00:44but they've got to be getting three points from this really and stuff to sort of like

00:48put the pressure on the other teams basically. I mean, Derby looked like for all the world

00:53that they were heading for a very important victory at the weekend. Obviously, Barry Bannon

00:56equalised for Sheffield Wednesday to make it 1-1 with a superb strike, still doing it

01:00at his age. And then obviously, you know, you think they're going to get another draw.

01:03They've had a lot of draws lately, but then 94th-minute winner for Jamal Lowe to seal

01:07a 2-1 win for Sheffield Wednesday at Derby. And they were devastated by that, basically.

01:10I think Paul Warnes, manager Paul Warnes' quote was the lad's lower than a snake's belly.

01:16I think it's what he said. So that's quite a good one. So they're clearly going to need

01:20a lot of picking up and whether a trip to Elland Road is what you want after that. I

01:24mean, there's two ways you can look at that. You could think, well, that's the worst fixture

01:27you could have after that. But then again, you could think, well, if you want to get,

01:29you know, sort of bounce back in style, then obviously in terms of a challenge, then this

01:32is two ways of looking at it, really. But yeah, you absolutely know that they've got

01:36to win this one. We talked, you know, we can talk about the away form needing to improve

01:40and it has to improve. But equally, as the away form has to improve, the home form has

01:45to stay as it is. You know, they're reeling off wins at the moment, one game after the

01:49other. And this has to be another one, really. And not to say it's going to be easy. Obviously,

01:53Derby won't be daft. They won't go, you know, they'll go there and try and be solid again

01:56and stuff. But hopefully we'll get what we've had in the last few games, where leads start

01:59brightly, you know, create early chances, hopefully get an early goal, you know, and

02:03then obviously get the three points. I mean, the fact of the matter is, is that if they

02:07go for the fixtures, if they win there, they will be back in the top two because of the

02:10way the fixtures go. So Friday night, you've got Burnley v Borough. I mean, that's a massive

02:14game, obviously. I mean, Burnley are obviously at home, but that's the sort of game you could

02:18see Burnley dropping points in potentially. Leads obviously then go next, as you say,

02:22at 12.30 on Saturday. So they're playing before Sheffield United, who play on Sunday.

02:25So if they do win, they will go into the top two. And obviously the dynamic lately has

02:29been Sheffield United playing first, usually winning, and then Leeds having to answer that

02:34call. And obviously they did do that initially, but then didn't do it at Blackburn. But obviously

02:38this will be the other way around, you know, so they'll be playing first. You've got Sunderland.

02:41I shouldn't forget Sunderland, obviously, they've dropped off a little bit lately. But

02:44I mean, I don't think anybody's sort of writing them off, you know, like, I mean, they've

02:47got Stoke at home at the weekend. So, sort of game you could see them winning. And then

02:51you've got West Brom v Blades on Sunday 3pm. So it's lots of things. It's a chance for

02:57Leeds to bounce back.

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