Chris Sutton believes Leeds United's Premier League fate has already been sealed - and has highlighted one oversight by manager Sam Allardyce.
The Whites are winless in their last seven games in the competition and have just two matches remaining to escape the bottom three.
Their most recent outing saw them held to a 2-2 draw at home to Newcastle United. Leeds had a golden chance to open up a two-goal buffer but spurned that opportunity when Patrick Bamford missed a penalty. Allardyce later spoke of how he had not assigned a penalty-taker - something Sutton is struggling to understand.
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Speaking on BBC Radio 5Live , the former Chelsea and Celtic striker said: "I don’t know whether that’s a good point or not. The truth is everybody’s looking at the penalty miss, that moment in the game, it’s an enormous moment.
"I know Patrick Bamford’s had death threats after, what sort of world are we living in when stuff like that happens? I really feel for him ... it takes a lot to stand up and take a penalty.
"I think he missed his last one and I’ve got to say I expected to take it because I think he’d scored his last one, so that didn’t make any sense.
"What I’m absolutely baffled about is Sam Allardyce saying he hadn’t designated a penalty-taker, he’d left it up to them.
"It’s a detail like that that ultimately may cost them staying in the Premier League. I found that, a guy whose attention to detail is so precise with things, to get that wrong, that’s a big moment in their season. I think Leeds are down… so that’s not a good point.”
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