Leeds United vs West Ham United

Leeds United will be looking to get their Premier League campaign off the mark when they take on West Ham United at Elland Road this weekend.

After guiding his side to a respectable 9th-place finish in their returning Premier League campaign last season, Marcelo Bielsa has yet to taste a top-flight win with Leeds this term (D3, L2). The last time the ‘Whites’ started a new top-flight season without a single victory from six matches was in 1935/36. To avoid that prospect, Leeds will have to rediscover their defensive form, as they’ve conceded five times across their opening two Premier League home games this season, as many as they had in their previous nine in the competition at Elland Road. Unfortunately for the local faithful, the hosts have struggled to impress up top too, scoring under 1.5 goals in each of their five top-flight outings this season (1.00 on average).

Meanwhile, an unfortunate 2-1 home defeat to Manchester United last time out, which included Mark Noble’s 95th-minute squandered spot-kick, halted West Ham’s four-game unbeaten Premier League start (W2, D2). It seems as if David Moyes is starting to lose control at the London Stadium, with the ‘Hammers’ going from four straight Premier League victories to three consecutive league matches without winning (D2, L1). That said, all competitions included, the Londoners are unbeaten on the road this season (W3, D1), preserving a clean sheet in their last three competitive trips on the trot. Indeed, Moyes’ men tend to go cagey beyond half-time, having kept a second-half clean sheet in both Premier League travels this season. Adding to their confidence, West Ham won both last season’s top-flight meetings with Leeds, as many successes as they had in their previous 28 such H2Hs (D8, L18).