Wolves welcome Leeds United to Molineux in Friday Night Football from the Premier League.
Victory would see Wolves leapfrog Leeds into 11th, whereas Marcelo Bielsa’s Whites look to go tenth until Sunday evening at least.
Team News
Wolves have no fresh injury concerns to report after Sunday’s win at Southampton, as Daniel Podence (adductor), Raul Jimenez (head) and Willy Boly (hamstring) remain absent.
Leeds expect to have Mateusz Klich and Diego Llorente available after the pair recovered from respective hip and muscle injuries.
Kalvin Phillips (calf) is again a doubt and could again join Rodrigo (groin), Gaetano Berardi, Robin Koch (both knee), Ian Poveda (ankle) and Adam Forshaw (hip) on the sidelines.
Stat Attack
- Wolves have won two of their three previous Premier League meetings against Leeds (W2, L1).
- Leeds are unbeaten in three of their last five trips to Molineux (W2, D1, L2).
- Wolves have failed to score in just one of their last six home league games (W2, D2, L2).
- Five of Leeds’ last seven away league goals have come after half-time (W2, L1).
- Ruben Neves has scored from the penalty spot in two of Wolves’ last three league games.
Prediction
Wolves showed two sides of their game at Southampton last weekend because they stuck in and defended well throughout the first half, before showing their dangerous attacking quality in the second half as they exposed defensive issues within the host and punished careless errors.
Leeds meanwhile were just defensively awful in the first half of their visit to Arsenal with Illan Meslier in particular at fault with careless play in both passing and goalkeeping, yet produced an excellent second half comeback when four goals down to eventually lose by just two goals.
On that note, it is difficult to call this game because Wolves look the stronger when it comes to defending but Leeds do look the more dangerous on the attack, especially after half time so I can see a cracking contest here and a surprise score draw if both teams are on fire and expose issues in defence.
Prediction: Wolves 2-2 Leeds
Result: Wolves 1-0 Leeds
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