Leeds United's trip to Accrington Stanley 'stinks of an upset' and Jesse Marsch will get his changes wrong, blasts former club favourite

That is the verdict of former Leeds United goalkeeper turned Betfred pundit Paul Robinson.

“Yes I am worried about it, very much so,” said Robinson of Leeds’ fourth-round trip to Accrington on Saturday at 12.30pm.

"When you look from a Leeds United fan’s perspective, when you’re looking at potential banana skins, then this game jumps out at you.

"Leeds haven’t won in the league since November 5th and the only game they’ve won since then is the FA Cup replay against Cardiff.

"Accrington have had three or four games postponed due to the state of their pitch, and no disrespect to the clubs in the football league, but many of the pitches are not a carpet and many of the Leeds players won’t have seen anything like it.

“When I was at Blackburn and Burnley, I played at Accrington during pre-season and they’ve got a good following, the stadium is going to be packed and Leeds’ players aren’t going to like it.

"The small dressing rooms, the cold showers, this is not the Premier League and it just stinks of an upset.

"John Coleman is in his second spell as manager and it’s a fantastically run football club. Accrington have nothing to lose and Leeds have everything to lose.”

Leeds survived a huge fright in the third round at Cardiff, requiring a stoppage-time equaliser from Sonny Perkins to earn a 2-2 draw and force a replay at Elland Road, which they duly won 5-2.

Marsch made a number of changes that day and Robinson believes doing the same again would be a mistake at Accrington.

“I believe Jesse Marsch will make changes and I think he will get it wrong,” Robinson told Betfred.com. He made a lot of changes in the away game against Cardiff and they pulled it out of the fire three minutes into injury time.

"I think Jesse will make a lot of changes because his priority is the Premier League. I believe he will make changes that will be to the detriment of the side because psychologically a defeat to Accrington, and the aftermath that follows that, could have a negative effect on his team going forward.”