David Woods

Thu 27 February 2020 7:51, UK

talkSPORT pundit Ally McCoist has predicted that Patrick Bamford will go on a roll and start scoring again for Leeds United. 

Bamford is still struggling in front of goal and blanked again last night in the 1-0 win against Middlesbrough.

It means he’s scored in just one game in his last 11 now.

You could tell his confidence was shot last night and he missed what looked like an extraordinary chance after a pull-back found him free a yard out from goal.

However, replays showed a vital interception from a Middlesbrough leg took the ball away from him.

That didn’t stop Leeds fans piling onto Twitter to criticise him again and that’s how his luck is going at the moment.

Talking on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show (talkSPORT, Thursday, 7am), McCoist was asked how difficult it is for a striker to get out of a rut like that.

“It will turn,” McCoist said. “If you’re a striker and your job is to score goals, you’ll go through periods where you don’t score.

“The most important thing is you keep doing what you’re good at, which is getting in the box and creating chances, and you know what? It will come.

“He’ll get one, it might come off his shin, might come off his knee and then all of a sudden it will turn and he’ll get three or four in a period of games.”

Leeds fans will be desperately hoping that McCoist is right after the news that back-up striker Jean-Kevin Augustin is suffering from a hamstring injury.

That was confirmed after the win against Middlesbrough last night and it means that Leeds are relying solely on Bamford, with no other striker options available to Marcelo Bielsa.

Bamford might be getting pelters from the fans at the moment but he’s still putting in a shift every game and if anything was to happen to him now it would be a disaster.

We’ll tip him to find his shooting boots against Hull on Saturday and hope the run starts there.

In other Leeds United news, Major blow for Leeds as hamstring injury rules player out v Hull – confirmed