Blackburn v Leeds Utd match thread

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BLACKBURN ROVERS V LEEDS UTD

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Blackburn manager Michael Appleton has lost Lee Williamson for up to six weeks with an ankle injury, and Dickson Etuho's return from knee problems also hit a snag in the reserves last Monday.

Right-back Adam Henley came through a reserve outing and may get a game.

Leeds boss Neil Warnock will check his players for signs of tiredness after the midweek game against Blackpool.

Michael Tonge is expected to continue in midfield alongside Paul Green and David Norris.


MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head
• Six goals were shared when these clubs met at Elland Road earlier in the season, with Blackburn snatching a point from Ruben Rochina's equaliser six minutes from time.

• Leeds travel in search of a fifth league win in seven trips to Ewood Park, although it is their first visit for a league fixture in nine years.

• Blackburn thrashed the West Yorkshire club 3-0 when entertaining them most recently in the League Cup in October 2005.


Blackburn Rovers

• Seven days after beating Arsenal in the FA Cup, Blackburn are looking for a fifth win from Michael Appleton's ninth game in charge.

• They are also vying for a third successive league victory at Ewood Park, but have only scored 19 Championship goals on their own
ground, which is the lowest in the division with the exception of Barnsley's 16.

• The Lancashire club have not lost a league game in which they scored first, but the 2-0 midweek defeat at Hull was the first time they had
failed to find the net in any competition since Boxing Day.


Leeds United

• Ninth-placed Leeds - the busiest of the Championship clubs - go into their 42nd match of the season, looking for their first back-to-back
league wins of 2013.

• Neil Warnock's side have not won in six league games on the road, and have lost all their away fixtures against the top 15 clubs, with the
exception of the trip to Brighton, which ended 2-2.

• Their trio of away victories have been against three of the bottom four clubs, and they are yet to keep a clean sheet on their Championship
travels.

 

I don't see us winning tomorrow. We're just too **** away from home. Can't see how we're going to stop the rot without a miracle.

 

3-2 To somebody !!!!

 

Can you break a few legs for us

 

0-2 Blackburn

 

Difficult decision 2 out of 3 between Diouff, Morison and McCormack?

 

My starting Xi would be

Kenny
Byram
Warnock
Lees
Peltier
Green
Tonge
Norris
Hall
Morison
Diouf

 

McCormack is too good to leave him out.

 

Blackburn
Kean, Orr, Dann, Hanley, Rekik, Bentley, Lowe, Murphy, Kazim-Richards, Campbell, Rhodes

Subs
Usai, Pedersen, Markus Olsson, Nuno Gomes, Morris, Goodwillie, Henley

Leeds
Kenny, Byram, Lees, Peltier, Warnock, Green, Tonge, Norris, Varney, Morison, McCormack

Subs
Ashdown, Pearce, White, Brown, Diouf, Habibou, Hall.

 

But so it Diouf, and he is a more clever player, and will get more dangerous free kicks for Morison to get hold of/ McCormack only decent up front, and can't play him anywhere else

 

David Bentley and DJ Campbell start for Blackburn

 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ustream-leeds

 

Here we go again folks. We're underway....

 

Afternoon

• BillysStatue,
• Davy,
• MarkoLUFC,
• san-ho-zay

 

Afternoon all. Bright start from Leeds. Nit as bright as Bolton's though - 3-0 up already!

 

Bolton 3-0 up v Hull after 10 mins

 

Great minds n all that. I'd love a win today....

 

Welcome to the Leeds forum Tyrone

 

Should keep our hull visitors away for a while. Hope Bolton get 10

 

Morning all, does sound like we're doing well, sound confident away from home for once!