A solid defence has provided the foundation for a very solid start to Leeds United’s second season back in the Premier League and a new AI supercomputer has tried to work out how it all ends up.
Leeds signed off for the November international break with Saturday’s 1-0 victory at home Tottenham Hotspur which marked a return to winning ways after three draws and two defeats from the club’s previous five games.
Having lost just two games so far this season, the victory propelled Leeds back up to ninth place and closer to the division’s Champions League qualification spots than the relegation zone.
After ten games played, Leeds now sit on 14 points and only two points behind fifth-placed Chelsea who United visit in their next game back after the international break.
There is then another two point gap up to fourth-placed Liverpool but Leeds are closer to the Reds than they are to the dropzone, Farke’s men now six points clear of a troubled Manchester United who sit third-bottom and level on points with second-bottom Sunderland. The Red Devils and Black Cats are just point ahead of Crystal Palace who sit bottom of the pile.
Fifth-bottom Nottingham Forest and fourth-bottom Coventry City are only one point clear of the dropzone but both sides are five points behind the Whites who have the third best defensive record in the division having conceded just eight goals, albeit only scoring ten.
Unsurprisingly, Whites no 9 Dominic Calvert-Lewin is the club’s top scorer on four, five less than Manchester City’s huge Golden Boot favourite Erling Haaland who has nine, two more than next best Liverpool star Alexander Isak on seven.
As the Premier League pauses for the November internationals, a new AI supercomputer has boldly predicted how the table will look at the end of the season in May as well as each team’s top scorer and goals tally including a Spurs surprise.
The supercomputer results, gathered by Tipman Tips, is a prediction made on this season’s data and information for each Premier League team.
Featuring a Leeds drop, here is the full rundown from top to bottom and how Calvert-Lewin’s predicted tally compares to the likes of Haaland, Isak and Aston Villa’s Nicolas Jackson.
