Leeds United will be hoping to get their automatic-promotion push back on track when they face Millwall.
Neil Harris has told Millwall’s official website that Leeds should be in the Premier League, and suggested that he believes that the Elland Road faithful will turn up expecting Marcelo Bielsa’s men to stroll through his side.
Leeds will be hoping to get their automatic-promotion push back on track after losing in their final game before the international break. They now find themselves one point behind second place Sheffield United with eight fixtures to go.
With Millwall one point above the bottom three, the home side are going to be heavy favourites for the contest. But Harris insisted that his players will relish being the underdogs against a team that he believes belongs in the top flight.
“We’re certainly looking forward to it – Leeds are pushing right up there at the top of the table to get the club into the Premier League, where I personally think they should be. We ourselves are fighting to get points on the board to pull ourselves away from the danger zone. There’s a lot at stake for the game, and the pressure will certainly be on the home side,” he told the club’s official website.
“They’ll have a fanbase turning up expecting them to win, and I always expect my team to perform individually, be difficult to play against and have an end product. This game is similar to Brighton in the sense where we’ll go into it as the underdog, and can play with no fear knowing we’ve performed in our last couple of games and that 35,000 Leeds fans will turn up expecting their team to stroll past us.”
Before last season, Leeds’ home record against the Lions was good, with five wins on the bounce. However, Millwall left Yorkshire with the three points in an enthralling game last term, with Jed Wallace scoring a stoppage-time winner in a 4-3 win.
And it was Leeds who needed a late goal in the previous meeting earlier this season, with Jack Harrison scoring an equaliser in the 89th minute at the Den.
Millwall certainly seem to have an ability to raise their game for when they play Leeds, so, if they manage to secure the points, it would arguably be a much more impressive win for Bielsa’s men than the table would suggest, especially when you consider the pressure that is now on the Whites to get themselves back into the top two.
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