Leeds United team news for Saturday evening’s second game of the new Premier League season at Arsenal.
Whites boss Daniel Farke has provided his Leeds United team news for Saturday evening’s Premier League clash at Arsenal with Ethan Ampadu and Dominic Calvert-Lewin updates.
Club captain Ampadu excelled in Monday night’s 1-0 win at home to Everton but looked set to be forced off injured after a strong challenge from Everton's Tim Iroegbunam 11 minutes into the second half.
The skipper stayed down and appeared both in pain and upset as he received treatment only to eventually continue and play on for another 22 minutes before being brought off 12 minutes from time.
Speaking at Thursday’s pre-match press conference, though, Farke revealed that Ampadu had suffered an MCL injury and would be missing until after the international break.
“It’s bad news unfortunately,” said Farke on Ampadu.
“He’s going to miss the next few games. It’s an MCL injury and he’ll definitely be out until after the international break. I hope to have him back after the international break. It’s not ideal, he’s one our most important players if not the most important. But that’s football.”
Farke also provided an update on new striker signing Dominic Calvert-Lewin who was not involved against Everton, three days after being unveiled as the club’s eighth signing of the summer as a free agent on Friday afternoon.
Farke warned at the same day's press conference that after the September international break was probably a more realistic timeframe of when the forward would be fully ready but did declare his hope that Calvert-Lewin might be able to feature sooner.
“We will see,” said Farke, asked whether Calvert-Lewin could feature this weekend.
“Each and every training session is important to him. What he had missed though was team training. We will see. He makes a decent impression. When we use him we will see, we will decide spontaneously.”
Farke also has new £15m Slovenian international centre-back Jaka Bijol back available after the defender was forced to miss the Everton opener as he served a one match ban for his red card in his final game for Udinese in Serie A.
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