Sheffield United vs Leeds United Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 🔘
Sheffield United have won four of their last five league games against Leeds (L 1 ); this will be the first top-flight meeting between the sides since a 2-2 draw in March 1994.
Leeds won their last league visit to Bramall Lane against Sheffield United, 1-0 in December 2018. They've not won back-to-back away games against the Blades since April 1992.
31 goals have been scored over the last eight top-flight meetings between Sheffield United (12) and Leeds (19), with the Whites winning six of those matches (D1 L1).
This will be the first Yorkshire derby in the Premier League since May 2001, when Leeds United beat Bradford City 6-1 in their penultimate game of the 2000-01 campaign.
Leeds United's first two Premier League games this season have seen 14 goals scored (7 for, 7 against), more than in any other team's first two matches of a Premier League campaign.
They are the first top-flight side to both score and concede seven goals in their first two matches since Liverpool in the 1932-33 season.
Only twice in their history have Sheffield United started a league campaign with three consecutive defeats -in the 1966-67 top-flight, and in the second tier in 1995-96.
Leeds haven't kept a clean sheet in any of their last 13 Premier League away games, since a 1-0 win at Charlton in November 2003.
The Whites have won just one of those 13 matches, drawing two and losing 10. No side has had fewer shots than Sheffield United in the Premier League this season (13), with the Blades the only side yet to score.
Indeed, since their return to the top-flight last season, Sheffield United are averaging just nine shots per Premier League game, fewer than any other side to have played in both campaigns.
Should either Mateusz Klich or Patrick Bamford score for Leeds United in this game, they would become the first player to score in their first three top-flight appearances for the club, with both players on the scoresheet against Liverpool and Fulham.
Leeds captain Liam Cooper is set to make his 200th appearance for the club, becoming the first player to reach that tally since Luciano Becchio in 2012.
Cooper's start against Fulham on MD2 came 10 years and 359 days since his first Premier League start in September 2009 for Hull against Liverpool, setting a new record for time between a player's first two Premier League starts.
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