Early team news as Leeds United key Premier League rivals Nottingham Forest at Elland Road.
Leeds United face a massive survival bid six pointer against key Premier League rivals Nottingham Forest under the Elland Road lights tonight.
Here, upon landing at LS11, we will bring you all of the pre-match build-up followed by starting line-ups as they are announced and then in-game updates followed by post-match analysis and reaction.
In the meantime, here is early Leeds team news and predicted Whites line-up for the 8pm kick-off which is being broadcast on Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Ultra HDR.
Leeds team news
Jaka Bijol and James Justin are both back for Leeds but a new blow has seen Anton Stach more or less ruled out whilst doubts surround Dan James and Lukas Nmecha.
Defenders Bijol and Justin both returned to training this week although Whites boss Daniel Farke has warned that it would be a case of waiting to see how Bijol’s body reacted after missing his side’s last three games with a hamstring injury.
Justin, meanwhile, injured his toe in last weekend’s 4-0 defeat at home to Arsenal but only suffered bruising.
Winger James returned to training last week in his recovery from the hamstring tendon injury suffered in the 3-2 defeat at Manchester City at the end of November. James was not involved against Arsenal but has Farke has said the winger is making progress.
As of Wednesday’s pre-match press conference, striker Nmecha had still not returned to training following his hamstring injury, Farke admitting the forward would unlikely be back to face Forest but was not too far away.
A new blow, though, has seen Leeds lose midfielder Stach, the German struggling with hip problems after the defeat to Arsenal and likely to miss both tonight’s visit of Forest and Tuesday night’s trip to Chelsea.
Farke has said that Stach is probably looking at ten to 14 days out.
Predicted Leeds line-up: Darlow; Bogle, Rodon, Bijol, Struijk, Gudmundsson; Ampadu, Longstaff, Aaronson; Okafor, Calvert-Lewin.
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