Next up at Elland Road is Coventry City, a team that I have hated with passion for 15-16 years, they've never been that good, never really beaten us alot, but I have always ranked them close to Man U and Liverpool on my hate scale, actually only Galacrap are worse. The reason? They took Strachan & McAllister from us (Whelan too but that never pissed me off in the same way) - Macca was still great when he left, and with Strachan leaving we missed out on a man who I believe could have done with Leeds in the 2000's what Revie did in the 60's & 70's - And now it's to late and wee Gordon S won't get his chance a ER - At least we can always look back at the picture of him with the 91/92 championship trophy.
Coventry arrieve at ER with 10 points and laying in 19th, they have been terrible away from home getting just a single point so I don't think they will be looking forward to facing a very strong Leeds side. They don't have any really strong players worth mentioning but Lukas Jutkiewicz have had an ok season so far bagging five goals in 11 games, his strike partner Gary McSheffrey (one of the worst players ever to pull on a Leeds shirt???) have scored just once in seven outings.
Leeds United played their best game of the season on Friday when Doncaster were torn apart by a great playing Leeds side, the 3-0 win could easily have been 3-4 goals larger. Despite my best efforts to persude Simon Grayson to play Becchio instead of Keogh he still haven't listened, and after a man of the match performance from our loan man on friday, he seems likely to start tomorrow aswell. We will probably field the same 11 who did so well on friday, our only concern is that Andrew Lonergan hurt his finger in the game and is doubtful, but Paul Rachubka did well in the pre-season, and I have no problems with him between the sticks if Lonergan can't make it. Leeds extended the undefeated (league) streak to five games with the great win, and hopefully SG and the lads can make it six on tuesday night. The clean sheet streak was also keept alive and is now on two and counting, defence have looked steady since Tom Lees moved in next to Darren O'Dea so I hope and think we will keep Coventry away from goals tomorrow.
As mentioned I don't like Coventry too much so therefor my guess is 3-0 Leeds, goals from McCormack (of course), Snodgrass and Becchio and that's being nice!
And here is that picture to remember Strachan by!
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