Tonight, under the lights of Elland Road, Leeds United face West Brom in the third leg of the new championship season.
The Whites are looking to recover from Saturday’s disappointing 1-0 defeat to Birmingham City and seek their first league win of the new season, but they will open the season at home to Cardiff City. It ended in a -2 draw.
West Brom, coached by former Whites player Carlos Corberan, started the new season with a 2-1 defeat at Blackburn Rovers, but the momentum came after a 3-2 win over Swansea City at home last weekend. got back.
Here we will provide full matchmaking and confirmed line-ups upon arrival at Elland Road, followed by live match updates and analysis prior to post-match reactions.
In the meantime, here are the first-team news and the predicted starting line-up for the Whites for the game, which will be broadcast live on Sky Sports (8pm kick-off).
Leeds Team News
Whites boss Daniel Farke still had ten players out injured for the trip to St Andrew’s in Liam Cooper, Crysencio Summerville, Patrick Bamford, Mateo Joseph, Tyler Adams, Junior Firpo, Sam Greenwood, Sonny Perkins, longer-term absentee Stuart Dallas and also Jack Harrison who has since joined Everton on loan.
Luis Sinisterra was also “not available” in addition to Willy Gnonto who had informed Farke that he was once again unable to play upon being told by the club that he would not be sold this summer. Adams, meanwhile, is now closing in on a move to Bournemouth.
But Georginio Rutter returned from a core muscle injury as a second-half substitute at St Andrew’s and as part of a much needed quadruple-boost, Farke revealed at Wednesday’s pre-match press conference that Rutter, Greenwood and also new signing Joe Rodon had all experienced a full week of training this week and that Perkins was back from illness.
Farke also revealed that Leo Hjelde would miss Friday night’s contest due to concussion suffered in training and that Gnonto, Sinisterra and also Helder Costa had been “removed from the dressing room” and were training alone. Expected line-up for Leeds:
Meslier; Ayling, Rodon, Struijk, Byram; Ampadu, Gray; Poveda, James, Gelhardt, Rutter.
West Brom team news
Striker Brandon Thomas Assante remains a question for the Baggies and is unlikely to feature against Leeds.
Head coach Carlos Corberan said of Friday’s game:
“Unfortunately there are still doubts about Brandon Thomas Assante.
‘He kicked badly against Stoke City and he complained about it all the way through the game. I played with an injury, but I haven’t been able to practice until today (Thursday), which shows that I can play with pain. Let’s see how he reacts to training. ”
Adam Reach and Daryl Dike are both out for extended periods, as are Grady Diangana and Martin Kelly. Josh Maja maximizes guest fitness.
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