Leeds United team news is in for this evening’s Premier League clash at relegation-battling Tottenham Hotspur.
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Daniel Farke has named his Leeds United team for this evening’s Premier League showdown at fourth-bottom Tottenham Hotspur who, unlike Leeds, are still battling to avoid the drop.
Defeat for West Ham left them seven points behind Leeds with just two games left to play.
Farke, though, had already highlighted the importance of his men finishing the season as strongly as possible in their final three games.
Pascal Struijk was a doubt for the game due to a hip injury but the centre-back starts although right back Jayden Bogle is a new absentee with a hamstring injury.
With Bogle missing, Dan James gets a rare start in one of two changes to the side and appears likely to play at wing back.
The other change sees the injured Noah Okafor replaced by Brenden Aaronson in the front line whilst youngsters Rhys Chadwick and Jayden Lienou both make the bench.
Brighton loanee Facundo Buonanotte is also missing. Like Bogle, he too has a hamstring injury.
Injured trio Okafor, Gabriel Gudmundsson and Ilia Gruev had already been ruled out of tonight’s contest whilst doubts surrounded the participation of centre-back Struijk.
With boss Farke unwell, assistant manager Edmund Riemer took Friday’s pre-match press conference where he revealed that Struijk had taken a knock to his hip (contusion) and was unable to join in with Friday's team training session.
Struijk, though, was se to train individually, Riemer hopeful the defender would be available to face Spurs.
Okafor, meanwhile, pulled his his left calf in last weekend’s 3-1 win at home to Burnley and now set to miss the next two games.
Leeds are hoping he will be back for the final game of the season at West Ham.
Left back Gudmundsson remains out with the hamstring injury suffered in the closing stages of the FA Cup semi-final defeat to Chelsea.
The defender has been ruled out of tonight’s game and is being assessed on a daily basis.
Midfielder Gruev meanwhile is out for the rest of the season with a meniscus knee injury suffered in training.