Leeds United - v - Norwich ***Matchday Thread***

[BelfastAndy]

TEAM NEWS

Leeds are assessing the severity of Junior Firpo's knee injury but he is definitely ruled out against Norwich.

Forward Patrick Bamford could make his first start for six months, while Diego Llorente was an unused substitute on Thursday on his return from injury.

Norwich City are bolstered by the return of on-loan midfielder Billy Gilmour, who was ineligible to face his parent club Chelsea.

Sam Byram missed that game with fatigue but is likely to feature on Sunday.

Christoph Zimmermann and Mathias Normann are both training normally after coming off at half-time against Chelsea.



MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

Leeds won the reverse fixture 2-1 and are looking to complete the league double over Norwich for the first time since 1980-81.

Norwich won 3-1 in the Championship three years ago in the most recent league meeting at Elland Road. They have never won consecutive away league visits to Leeds.

Leeds are hosting Norwich in a Premier League match for the first time since a 2-1 victory in May 1995.

Leeds United

Leeds have equalled the club record of six successive league defeats, failing to score in any of the last four.

They have only had one longer run of games without a goal: six from January to March 1982 in the top flight.

The Whites have conceded 44 goals in their past 14 league fixtures, failing to keep a clean sheet during that period.

Jesse Marsch is only the second Leeds manager to lose his first two Premier League matches in charge; George Graham started with three defeats in 1996.

Leeds have won six of their seven Premier League games against promoted sides since returning to the top flight last season, with the exception being a 2-2 draw with Brentford in December.

Patrick Bamford is one short of 100 career league goals. He has been involved in seven goals in five Premier League appearances against promoted sides for Leeds, scoring four and assisting three.

Norwich City

A defeat would ensure they become the first club to have three separate Premier League losing streaks of six games or more within a season.

Norwich have 17 points with 10 games remaining. The fewest points by a team to avoid relegation is 34 by West Brom in 2004-05.

The Canaries have scored the fewest away goals in the division this season, although four of their seven have come in the past three games on the road.

They have only won one of their past 19 Premier League away fixtures in March, drawing two and losing 16.

2 - 0.

MOT.

[ozleeds]

Don't know how you got yourself up to write this but good onya.
Seems like a broken record that we are breaking every record we can in one season

[BelfastAndy]

I have to reference the good old BBC. However, it did require a 4 shot Nero to pluck me up after Thursday. However we are winning this one for sure. 2 - 0.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

C’mon Leeds - perhaps Bamford will start too.

Anyone know if there have been updates on Phillips and Cooper?

[joellufcprice]

I think we will win.

If we don't we are frigged, morale will be totally gone, crowd will be gone, Marsch will be a dead man walking already and Burnley and Everton will have 2 and 4 games in hand on us.

My main hope is I don't see more of that long ball nonsense because my fear with that is even if we did stay up, I don't ever want to watch that brand of football and have no interest in a season of it next year

[Billyni]

As hopey says on another thread, a wee bit of good fortune wouldn’t go amiss.
No deflected goals for them
No world class saves from their keeper
No wondergoals from some of theirs who hasn’t scored all season.

[Billyni]

And no wingers as centre forwards
No centre halfs in midfield
No midfielders in defence.
And Jesse, stop looking like a rabbit in the headlights

[Billyni]

Oh, and while I’m at it.
If we lose.
I think Jesse will walk.

[WTF11]

And no wingers as centre forwards
No centre halfs in midfield
No midfielders in defence.
And Jesse, stop looking like a rabbit in the headlights

So basically, you don't want anything that makes football watchable

[ozleeds]

Oh, and while I’m at it.
If we lose.
I think Jesse will walk.

But Billy remember people on here saying they don't care as long as we play beautiful football?I wonder what they are thinking right now!