Burnley and Leeds battled it out for the Championship title final season – now they face one another at Turf Moor in a Premier League conflict which might have implications come the top of the season.
BBC Sport takes a take a look at among the key themes forward of their assembly.
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This may increasingly solely be Burnley and Leeds’ eighth league sport of the season, however this sport between two promoted sides already has the whiff of an important six-pointer.
Leeds have made a greater begin to life again within the Premier League than Burnley up to now, and could have spent the worldwide break smarting from coming away with nothing from their final match towards .
Their could have harm given how properly they competed towards the Europa League winners. Nevertheless, Spurs’ further little bit of high quality, proven by the likes of Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons, proved to be the distinction between the perimeters.
The place the targets are going to return from stays a scorching matter for Leeds followers and a tally of simply seven from seven top-flight video games tells its personal story. Winger Noah Okafor is their solely participant to attain greater than as soon as this season, and whereas Dominic Calvert-Lewin has led the road properly as the point of interest of their assault, acquainted questions stay about his capacity to take possibilities.
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Most factors from this fixture and subsequent week’s dwelling match with will probably be seen as a should by boss Daniel Farke, who has named the identical beginning XI in every of their final 4 matches.
For Burnley, one win from seven video games represents a worrying begin.
Solely West Ham have conceded extra top-flight targets than the Clarets’ 15, which is remarkably just one lower than Scott Parker’s facet let in throughout their 46 video games within the Championship final season. They might turn out to be solely the second facet in Soccer League historical past after within the 1894-95 marketing campaign to concede their earlier season’s tally inside their first eight video games.
Two issues Parker want to see his facet have extra of is a) the ball and b) a lead. Their common possession stands at simply 35.3%, whereas they’ve held a lead for a median of simply eight per cent of their seven matches up to now this season.
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In mitigation, their fixture checklist has not been sort and so they have confronted Liverpool, , Tottenham, , and Manchester United.
They’ve been in rivalry in lots of these video games however Parker has bemoaned his facet’s lack of focus at essential junctures:
“There’s a theme for the time being,” he mentioned after the loss to Villa. “We had been vastly aggressive, however switched off in sure moments.”
Their one win this season got here towards one other promoted membership in , one thing they are going to be determined to repeat towards Leeds as they give the impression of being to get their season up and operating
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One statistic that neither Farke or Parker will look upon fondly is that they occupy the underside two spots for the bottom Premier League points-per-game common of any supervisor to have taken cost of fifty or extra matches.
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