Leeds United vs. Burnley - prediction, team news, lineups

Leeds United are not rather location and hosed yet successful the conflict for Premier League endurance arsenic they invited already-relegated Burnley to Elland Road successful Friday’s 35th round.

Daniel Farke’s men are among the signifier teams successful the division, though, unbeaten successful five, which leaves them six points wide of 18th-placed Tottenham Hotspur with 4 games near to play.

Match preview

Although 40 points are mostly the magic fig to bushed the drop, that tally whitethorn not suffice successful the 2025-26 Premier League season, with 4 teams successful and astir that people heading into the last period of the campaign.

Leeds person already reached that mark, but they could inactive beryllium relegated if their existent upswing falters and the teams beneath them support their trajectories.

Among the teams battling to debar the last relegation spot — Leeds, Nottingham Forest, West Ham United and Spurs — each but the North Londoners find themselves successful the apical fractional erstwhile considering results from the past 5 matches.

Leeds, who person earned 9 points during that period, are sixth successful the signifier table, 2 down in-form Forest, and they caput into Friday’s contention hoping to adhd to that tally and determination different measurement person towards top-flight safety.

Historical precedent gives Farke’s men further crushed for optimism, with the Whites entering this play connected a five-match winning streak against relegated teams by an aggregate people of 18-3.

It will, however, beryllium absorbing to spot if Burnley person immoderate combat near successful them aft their relegation was confirmed by past week’s 1-0 loss to title-chasing Manchester City.

Scott Parker’s troops person claimed conscionable 1 triumph successful 25 fixtures, albeit a 3-2 win implicit Crystal Palace aft trailing 2-0; however, that triumph came erstwhile endurance was inactive a possibility.

As such, the Clarets’ information volition beryllium examined arsenic they question to Elland Road, alert of the anticipation of doing the treble implicit the Whites for lone the 3rd clip successful the club’s past aft 1925-26 and 2013-14 successful the apical formation and Championship, respectively.

With the unit of the endurance combat besides off, possibly a broadside that person earned 9 of their past 13 Premier League points distant from location volition anticipation for different affirmative effect connected their travels.

However, that aspiration depends connected Burnley halting their three-match losing streak connected the road, having suffered defeats astatine Everton (2-0), Fulham (3-1) and Forest (4-1), an aggregate people of 9-2.

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Team News

Leeds person a comparatively steadfast squad, but Ilia Gruev volition miss the remainder of the play owed to a genu injury, and they volition measure Gabriel Gudmundsson’s hamstring ailment earlier Friday.

While Dominic Calvert-Lewin leads the mode for goals with 11, the starring scorer has netted conscionable 1 successful his past 8 appearances, with his past open-play onslaught coming successful February’s 3-1 triumph implicit Forest.

Noah Okafor, however, has been successful storming signifier for Farke’s men, with the Swiss guardant scoring 5 of his 7 goals for the nine since the commencement of February, making him the team’s in-form attacker.

Relegated Burnley person respective issues to contend with heading into this weekend, with Josh Cullen (knee), Connor Roberts (calf) and Jordan Beyer (thigh) decidedly unavailable; however, Hannibal Mejbri (thigh), Axel Tuanzebe (calf) and Zeki Amdouni (knee) are nearing returns.

Zian Flemming is 1 much extremity from emulating Chris Wood (2020-21) and Danny Ings (2014-15) arsenic the lone Burnley players to people treble figures successful the apical flight, with Wood notching 12 and Ings 11.

Flemming has crushed to beryllium afloat of content connected Friday, arsenic 8 of his 9 Premier League goals person travel successful distant games, including 3 successful a enactment astatine Forest, Fulham and Chelsea.

Leeds United imaginable starting lineup:

Darlow; Rodon, Bijol, Struijk; Bogle, Ampadu, Tanaka, Justin; Aaronson, Okafor; Calvert-Lewin

Burnley imaginable starting lineup:

Dubravka; Walker, Ekdal, Humphreys, Esteve, Hartman; Tchaouna, Ward-Prowse, Laurent, Anthony; Flemming

We say: Leeds United 2-1 Burnley

While Leeds are favourites to bushed Burnley, they indispensable amusement a antithetic broadside from the 1 that had fired blanks successful 3 consecutive matches astatine Elland Road earlier scoring 3 against Wolverhampton Wanderers past clip out.

We are backing the Whites to travel up that occurrence implicit 1 relegated broadside by edging Burnley connected Friday nighttime to widen their unbeaten tally and instrumentality different measurement towards Premier League survival.

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