Jimmy Bullard predicts Leeds United clash v Arsenal
Jimmy Bullard has predicted that Leeds United will beat Arsenal in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday evening.
The Soccer AM host has backed the Whites to hand the Gunners a potential banana skin at The Emirates and send them packing.
Leeds and Marcelo Bielsa have numerous injury worries in their squad and could be heavily rotated in the capital.
Speaking to the EFL official website this morning, Bullard believes that the Whites winning would be an upset.
“There’s always swerve balls in the Cup games,” he said. “This, I felt was a slippery one. I just felt that Leeds are good. Could it be a banana skin for Arsenal a bit? Or is it even a banana skin?
“I think it’s tighter than what people think. Arsenal aren’t the Arsenal of old, in my opinion. I could see Leeds upsetting them.”
Upset?
We’re not sure if this could even be classed as an upset anymore, with Leeds establishing themselves in the Premier League.
If anything, Arsenal being consistent and winning again would go against the status quo more and it should be a cracking evening.
The Whites will be used to travelling to the Gunners in the cup, and will be looking for more luck and hopefully a positive result this year and time around.
We are expecting big changes, and whether that affects Leeds negatively, time will tell, but Arsenal will likely do the same.
Who is going to be the hero? Could it be Joe Gelhardt? Bullard certainly wouldn’t mind that happening by the looks of things.
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