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    Former Elland Road favourite Andy Ritchie is expecting Leeds United to come out fighting at Oakwell on Saturday.</p>

    Ritchie, who scored 44 goals in 159 appearances for United between 1983 and 1987, is no stranger to Yorkshire derby clashes, and is steeling his Barnsley side for a tough encounter with his former club.</p>

    &quot;There's a new regime at Leeds and Dennis's teams will play in the style of him as a person and a player,&quot; explained Ritchie. &quot;They'll come out and they'll be up and at you. They won't give us a minute's peace.</p>

    &quot;It's not a great time to be playing Leeds, but it's a derby match and there's plenty of pride at stake. </p>

    &quot;Leeds hadn't kept a clean sheet for as while, but Dennis comes in and then they do.</p>

    &quot;He will definitely get his philosophy across, but I hope we can use what we've got to overcome that.&quot;</p>

    While United sit one place above the Coca-Cola Championship relegation zone, Barnsley are second-bottom of the table and are also in desperate need of points.</p>

    Barnsley have to look back to September for their last win and have lost six of their last seven matches, including a Yorkshire derby defeat at Hillsborough.</p>

    &quot;We're not playing that badly,&quot; insisted Ritchie.</p>

    &quot;We've played well and not got what we deserved from games. I'd take playing badly and scoring one in the 90th minute.&quot;</p>

    United fans are reminded that Saturday's game is ALL TICKET and no tickets will be available on the day of the game.</p>

    Tickets went off sale at Elland Road on Thursday November 2.</p>

    To hear the Andy Ritchie interview in full listen to Yorkshire Radio for the big match build-up.</p>
     

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