da dobrowin： Something needs to change at Leeds United. The Whites just aren’t getting the job done at the moment – winning two of their last nine league games.
da pinnacle： Their latest loss was against 22nd place Wigan Athletic, and if the league table is anything to go by, things are about to get a lot harder for the club.
Indeed, their next three games are all against sides that currently occupy playoff spots, and it’s not too farfetched to say that these could be season-defining fixtures.
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First up is Nottingham Forest, and Marcelo Bielsa has to pick his strongest possible squad for this fixture in order to give his side the best possible chance of coming away with three points.
However, Bielsa isn’t one to change things all that much, and here’s how we think Leeds will lineup this weekend.
Despite conceding 17 goals in their last nine games, the backline stays very similar to what we’ve seen in recent weeks.
Kiko Casilla’s streak of starting every single league game this term continues, as does Ben White’s, while Luke Ayling, Liam Cooper and Ezgjan Alioski make up the back four.
Bielsa has previously said that White would be the one to replace Kalvin Phillips in the holding midfield role, but that’s not how it’s gone in the past two games, so Stuart Dallas starts there in this side.
There are changes in the midfield, Pablo Hernandez moves out to the right, while Tyler Roberts plays in the middle, replacing Helder Costa in the XI.
Jack Harrison features on the left, and there’s no place for Jean-Kevin Augustin after Bielsa’s comments on his fitness.
In other news, Graham Smyth has picked out a man to watch in the U23s.