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The opening round of the 27th round is on Friday evening at Elland Road (live on Sky Sports England and Dazn) with the Argentinian Marco Bielsa, whom Pep Guardiola once described as the best coach in the world and his role model, and Chelsea legend Frank Lampard. the two most spectacular coach names in the championship. While “El Loco” Bielsa has experienced everything in his 29 years as a coach, due to the great player Lampard, one quickly forgets that it is still the rookie season on the coaching bench for the 40-year-old. In the first leg in Pride Park it was the fourth time in the past four league matches between Leeds United (Table 1, 51 points) and Derby County (Table 6, 43 points), that faced different coaches. Before that were Paul Clement and Uwe Rösler (2015/16), Steve McClaren and Garry Monk (2016/17), Gary Rowett and Paul Heckingbottom (2017/18) and now just the current trainer armor of the two former champions.
Where everything experienced does not quite meet on Bielsa. He has not yet been champion in the championship and in the Premier League Bielsa has left his mark only in the tactical book of Guardiola. After the last two league games in a row plus the FA Cup Aus, the lead on a non-uphill spot melted to four. So it’s time to return to winning ways, which should be done for the best home team in the league against slightly scrappy Rams. For example, at Leeds vs. Derby County we are talking about our forecast and the odds of the bookmakers for a whites home win.
Leeds:
Leeds continues to lead the Championship Tableau as the frontrunner, although the Whites have lost their recent two league games against Hull and Nottingham. Last weekend, as in the past season, the early FA Cup ended in round three, with Leeds having lost three competitive games for the first time since January 2018. Previously, Leeds celebrated nine league victories in a row, which last before in September 2009 succeeded. Despite the win-free start to the new year, the Whites are not only favorites for the Premier League return after 15 years abstinence, but Leeds is also against Derby in terms of odds of bookmakers also first contender for three points on Friday night. Leeds are also the league’s fourth-best offense (44) and second-best defensive (28 conceded) after Middlesbrough with defensive fetishist Tony Pulis as coach (only 18 goals).
In each of the last eight competitive games played in January, one Leeds player left the field: Cooper (Sutton & Millwall), Saiz (Newport), O’Kane (Ipswich) and, most recently, Phillips, who will miss Leeds in the top match on Friday. Although it was enough against Forest despite a shortfall to the interim lead, in the end, however, Leeds stood there empty handed. Will Leeds have a chance against the Rams, this must not be repeated again. This is Leeds Pablo Hernandez available. The Spaniard came in calendar year 2018 on 15 assists, and thus five more than any other player. With his help Leeds wants to defend on Friday not only the championship leadership, but continue to be the best home team in the league (eight wins, three draws, two bankruptcies). At Leeds versus Derby County, a guess is the prognosis for a home win to recommend. In the transfer market, it was quiet except for the three departures Samuel Sáiz (Getafe), Shaughnessy (Hearts) and O’Connor (Bradford).
Derby:
In the summer, Frank Lampard became the seventh coach at Derby County for the past three years. Now it is up to the 40-year-old coach newcomer to accomplish what none of his predecessors managed to bring the Rams back into the Premier League. Even if Derby does not succeed directly in his first year, the year of upheaval with many young players has been a success so far. After 26 games completed, the Rams take a playoff rank and only six points behind one of the two direct promotion places, with still 60 points to be awarded, everything remains possible. Last time Premier League air sniffed Derby in 2007/08, but went down with only eleven points as the worst team ever in the history books. The current Derby team are doing quite a different job, including last weekend, when they drew 0-2 and lost to Premier League club Southampton for another replay.
Leeds vs. Derby County odds for an away goals tie are tempting, but our prediction is closer to Leeds home win. In the league Derby won only one of the past five games, but this away and spectacular at the Second Norwich City (one win, three draws, a bankruptcy). The recent home game against Middlesbrough was also the third home draw in the league in a row, which was the last time in December 2005. However, if you look at the glass half-full and not half-empty, the Rams of the past seven Championship games lost only to Sheffield United. Away, the Rams drove the seventh most points this season, but lost none of the first 14 teams more often in the stranger than derby (five times). Top scorer Harry Wilson missed the FA Cup match against the Saints and is also questionable for Friday. Callum Guy was transferred to Blackpool, Pearce (Millwall) and Thorne (Luton) left the club as a loaner until the end of the season.
Leeds vs Derby head to head matches
11.08.18 CHA Derby Leeds 1 : 4
21.02.18 CHA Derby Leeds 2 : 2
31.10.17 CHA Leeds Derby 1 : 2
13.01.17 CHA Leeds Derby 1 : 0
15.10.16 CHA Derby Leeds 1 : 0