📊 Form Guide

Derby County

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Derby County fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 2-1 Championship triumph vs West Bromwich Albion.

In that game, Derby County managed 38% possession and 13 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Derby County was Jerry Yates (28'). On the other side, West Bromwich Albion got 13 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Mason Holgate (68' Own goal) and Grady Diangana (81') scored for West Bromwich Albion.

Paul Warne's Derby County have celebrated scoring a sum total of 7 times over their preceding six outings. The comparative tally of goals that have been scored against them in those same games amounts to 6.

Taking a look at their past results, Derby County:

• are winless against Leeds United in their last 6 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 home league matches.

Leeds United

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Leeds United head into the meeting after a 0-2 Championship win versus Stoke City in their previous fixture.

In that game, Leeds United had 75% possession and 20 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for Leeds United was Joël Piroe (42', 63'). On the other side, Stoke City got 3 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

A run of outstanding displays from the Leeds United defenders has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 3 from their previous 6 fixtures in total. Over that same period, their forwards have scored 10.

Going into this contest, Leeds United have not lost to Derby County when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 11/01/2019 tells us that Derby County have won 1 of them & Leeds United 4, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

An aggregate of 17 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 of them for The Rams and 11 being from The Whites. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was Championship match day 19 on 07/12/2024 when it finished Leeds United 2-0 Derby County.

On that day, Leeds United had 63% possession and 18 shots at goal with 6 on target. The scorers were Joe Rodon (39') and Max Wöber (44').

For their opponents, Derby County had 3 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Matt Donohue.

ℹ️ Team News: Derby County

Eiran Cashin (Hamstring injury), Ryan Nyambe (Torn knee ligaments) and David Ozoh (Hamstring injury) won’t be able to feature for Derby County boss Paul Warne.

It seems likely that The Rams may well make use of the 4-3-3 formation this time, utilising J. W. Zetterström, Kane Wilson, Curtis Nelson, Nathaniel Phillips, Callum Elder, Kenzo Goudmijn, Ebou Adams, Marcus Harness, Kayden Jackson, N. Mendez-Laing and Jerry Yates.

ℹ️ Team News: Leeds United

Thanks to a mainly full-strength group, there is only the sole fitness problem for the Leeds United manager Daniel Farke to be concerned with. Ilia Gruev (Knee surgery) won’t be playing here.

We reckon that The Whites appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup with a starting lineup of Illan Meslier, Jayden Bogle, Joe Rodon, Pascal Struijk, Sam Byram, Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rothwell, Daniel James, Brenden Aaronson, Manor Solomon and Joël Piroe.

💡 Prediction

We’re of the view that Leeds United have it within them to dominate possession and create several successful chances.

In contrast, Derby County could well struggle to score themselves although we think that they will probably end up scoring here.

We’re tipping a fairly comfortable 1-3 winning score for Leeds United at the end of the 90 minutes.

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Victor Martins, 17:00 29/12/2024