Chris Sutton has predicted on BBC Sport that Leeds United will play against Fulham like they did against Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal and will pick up all three points from the match at Elland Road this weekend.
Leeds will lock horns with Fulham at Elland Road in the Premier League on Sunday.
The West Yorkshire club will head into the match against the Cottagers on the back of a 2-0 defeat to Leicester City away from home at the King Power Stadium in the Premier League.
It followed a 1-0 loss at the hands of Arsenal at Elland Road in the league.
Leeds are now 16th in the Premier League table with nine points from 10 matches, level on points with third-from-bottom Wolverhampton Wanderers, who have played 11 matches.
Meanwhile, Fulham, who won promotion from the Championship at the end of last season, are ninth in the Premier League table at the moment with 15 points from 11 games, just five points behind fourth-placed Chelsea.
Former Chelsea striker Sutton has said that he was made to look foolish by Leeds’s performance against Leicester on Thursday, but the BBC Sport pundit believes that the West Yorkshire club will play against Fulham like they did against Arsenal.
Chris Sutton predicts Leeds United v Fulham
Sutton wrote: “Leeds were absolutely awful against Leicester on Thursday. After watching them tear into Arsenal on Sunday, I thought they would get at the Foxes, but in the end they barely laid a glove on them and I was made to look pretty foolish for saying they would win 4-1.
“Surely things will be different against Fulham, back at Elland Road, though? They need to be, because the Leeds fans made their feelings clear to Jesse Marsch at the end of the Leicester game, and he has taken only two points from his past seven games.
“Fulham will have a say too, of course, and they will be lively with Aleksandar Mitrovic leading the line for them.
“But I am banking on Leeds playing like they did against Arsenal or in the first half against Crystal Palace, getting their intensity back and finding a way to win.
“If they don’t, then the pressure on Marsch is going to build.
“Sutton’s prediction: 2-1.”
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