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Leeds United could beryllium without up to 4 players for Saturday’s Premier League opener against Nottingham Forest astatine the City Ground.
Head manager Daniel Farke has confirmed that left-back Gabriel Gudmundsson and attacker Willy Gnonto are some sidelined with thigh injuries, portion goalkeeper Lucas Perri is besides nursing a akin problem.
Meanwhile, it remains unclear arsenic to whether semipermanent absentee Ilia Gruev (knee), who has partially reintegrated himself into training, volition beryllium disposable to diagnostic successful the matchday squad.
After having occurrence with a backmost 3 during the 2nd fractional of past season, Farke is expected to instrumentality with the aforesaid strategy and could manus summertime signing Tarik Muharemovic his afloat debut astatine centre-back alongside Jaka Bijol and Joe Rodon, who extended his declaration astatine the nine this week.
Club-record signing James Trafford volition commencement successful goal, portion Jayden Bogle - different to widen his declaration - and James Justin are acceptable to commencement arsenic wing-backs successful a 3-4-2-1 formation.
Anton Stach whitethorn beryllium required to statesman successful a deeper midfield presumption alongside Ethan Ampadu, arsenic Brendan Aaronson and caller enlistee Harry Wilson run successful precocious cardinal roles.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored a team-high 15 goals for Leeds successful each competitions past play and helium is expected to pb the line, with Noah Okafor and Lukas Nmecha providing screen connected the substitutes’ bench.
Leeds United imaginable starting lineup:
Trafford; Rodon, Bijol, Muharemovic; Bogle, Ampadu, Stach, Justin; Wilson, Aaronson; Calvert-Lewin
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