Leeds United vs Fulham Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 💎
💎The side playing at home has not lost any of the last eight league meetings between Leeds United and Fulham (W3 D5), winning the last three in a row.
💎Indeed, in the Premier League, the home team has won each of the last four clashes between the two sides.
💎After their 3-0 win over Fulham in June in the Championship, Leeds are looking to win back-to-back league meetings with the Cottagers for the first time since December 2003, during their last Premier League season.
💎In the last 31 Premier League matches played between two newly promoted clubs, the away side has managed to win just twice (D9 L20), with both such wins coming at relegated Norwich City last season (Aston Villa 5-1, Sheffield United 2-1 ).
💎This will be Leeds' first home game in the Premier League since their return to the division; they have only lost their opening home match in one of their previous 12 seasons in the competition (WB D3), a 0-2 defeat to Sheffield Wednesday in August 1996.
💎After winning their first ever Premier League game in Yorkshire (1-0 v Leeds in April 2002), Fulham have lost their last seven top-flight trips to the county by an aggregate score of 3-18.
💎Leeds are looking to avoid losing both of their first two matches to a top-flight campaign for the first time since 1980-81. Indeed, their defeat against Liverpool was their f1 rst ever Premier League defeat on MD1.
💎Fulham have lost 15 of their last 19 Premier League matches, with three of their four victories in that run coming in consecutive matches in April 2019.
💎Leeds scored with all three of their shots on target in their opening day defeat against Liverpool -the Whites scored with just 31 % of their shots on target in the Championship last season, the joint-4th lowest rate in the division.
💎Patrick Bamford has scored in two of his last three Premier League appearances (dating back to May 2017), including a Leeds debut goal in the competition last week.
💎He hadn't scored in any of his first 25 games in the competition, though only two of those appearances were as a starter.
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💎Fulham midfielder Tom Cairney has been directly involved in more league goals against Leeds (four goals, three assists) than he has against any other opponent in his professional career.
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