SPORT: United Look For First Win In Six

Whites over the Pennines for Oldham clash

Published 9th Jan 2015

Leeds United go into this afternoon's first league game of 2015 having not won for five matches. Head Coach Neil Redfearn rang the changes for the cup tie at Sunderland last week and today could see Alex Mowatt, Lewis Cooke and Sam Byram back from being rested. Byram's not expecting today's opponents to be as easy to beat as they were at Elland Road in August, "Every game now is going to be important, we can't look too far ahead, we've got to go into that game with the mindset of picking up as many points as we can, then just take it game by game. "Their form's picked-up it'll be a hard game, like every game in this league really. So we'll go there with a game plan and we'll put forward our tactics and see where we go."

Head Coach Neil Redfearn wants more of the same from the latter stages of last week's FA Cup defeat at the Stadium Of Light, "It's got to be a similar performance, particularly the 2nd half when we made it a cup tie. Sunderland had to fight for everything, we created chances and played some good football as well and defended soundly. But it's a tough game - Bolton are a different animal now under Neil Lennon, he's done really well with them."