Only a week into the season and its all going wrong for Leeds, the pre-season favourites for the Championship, and things don’t get much easier with a trip to the Hawthorns this weekend.
The Baggies reached the play-offs last season before losing to Southampton and themselves have some cause for concern, having lost to Fleetwood during the week.
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West Brom v Leeds Betting Tips
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West Brom opened their Championship campaign with a good win over QPR, but the focus is undeniably on Leeds heading into this Saturday lunch-time kick-off amidst something of a mini-crisis around the club.
That at least is the view of the Elland Road support, who saw a miserable opening week - conceding three goals at home to Portsmouth in a 3-3 draw before being humbled 3-0 by Middlesbrough in a hapless EFL Cup performance - compounded by the news that talismanic forward Georginio Rutter is set for a move to Brighton.
There is a deep sense of mistrust around the club at the moment following the sales of Archie Gray and Crycensio Summerville and now Rutter, with very little coming in the opposite direction and Wednesday’s defeat has shown that the fringe players are not up to the task of stepping into the void left by three key players.
There is still a lot of individual quality at Leeds with the likes of Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rodon, Willy Gnonto, Dan James and Mateo Joseph more than enough to win any game of football, but there are real concerns about Daniel Farke’s in-game management which adds to the misery surrounding the side at the moment, and makes predicting anything around their games particularly tricky.
At this stage of the season, Leeds should in theory be able to cope without Rutter - Brenden Aaronson showed last week that he could be a valuable asset at this level - and it is likely to be later in the campaign where the lack of creativity, spark and inspiration shows unless emphatically replaced, so I’m going to hold off on predicting a complete meltdown for the Peacocks.
I’m going to keep my first tip fairly simple. A tough trip away from home and given the circumstances, a point would be acceptable from a Leeds perspective and while West Brom will see it as an opportunity to get one over on potential promotion rivals, Carlos Corberan will surely be wary of a sting in the tail.
A draw is available at 5/2 with BetUK and that is my first tip, and if I was going to add to that further I am pretty sure both teams will score in this one.
West Brom are quite a hard team to call at this stage of the season.
Last campaign’s feats certainly count for something, but a miserable pre-season littered with defeats should not be totally discounted, even if they did start positively with a 3-1 win over QPR courtesy of Josh Maja’s hat-trick.
They were a relatively dour side to watch last season - particularly against promotion rivals - so I’m not expecting them to pull up any trees here but since they have a striker in hot form and with Leeds’ defensive issues, I fancy Maja to be on target again and you can get him at 7/1 to be the first goalscorer with bet365.
West Brom v Leeds Odds
| Team | Odds |
|---|---|
| West Brom to win odds | 12/5 |
| Draw odds | 12/5 |
| Leeds to win odds | 23/20 |
Odds courtesy of Betfred, correct at the time of publication
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