For the second time this season Leeds will take the short trip to Keepmoat to face Doncaster Rovers, the first visit was in the Carling cup were a Ramon Nunez brace gave Leeds a 2-1 win.
Doncaster had a rough start to the season and are currently 20th i the table with 8 points, 7 of those however have been collected in the last three games.
Their terrible season start got manager Sean O'Driscoll the sack, and he's been replaced by Dean Saunders, who have signed some quality players since coming north, among them Pascal Chimbonda, Chris Kirkland and Jon Parkin (the chubby bloke who scored loads of goals for Preston against us in the terrible 4-6 defeat). So it is a improved Doncaster team that take on Leeds, who are on a roll as well, our last defeat in the league came against Ipswich almost two months back.
Simon Grayson will welcome his players back from international duty, and all of them should be fit and raring to go. I think that the break will have become Luciano Becchio well, and I expect him to start the game alongside Ross McCormack, apart from that I think we will put the same team in that beat Portsmouth. This means that Tom Lees will once again play in the centre of defence, a position which I feel is his best, my only doubt concerning the starting 11 is whether Paddy Kisnorbo will come in instead of Darren O'Dea, but as always Simon Grayson is keeping the cards close to his chest.
We will probably hear the LUFC fans sing; "Town full of Leeds fans" towards the Donny crowd, always good with a bit of banter. The game should be a close one, and Doncaster seem to be a different team after changing manager, but I think Leeds will win 2-0 goals coming from Becchio and captain Jonny Howson.
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