Leeds United team news for today’s Premier League clash at Aston Villa is in.

Whites boss Daniel Farke has named his Leeds United team for this afternoon’s Premier League showdown against high-flying Aston Villa at Villa Park (kick-off 3pm).

Farke was able to provide news of a big triple boost at Thursday’s pre-match press conference with Anton Stach, Pascal Struijk and Dan James all back in team training this week after their recent injuries.

Stach and Struijk now go straight back into the side but James Justin partners Struijk and Joe Rodon at the heart of the defence and not Jaka Bijol who is named on the bench alongside the returning James.

Farke had made six changes to his team for last weekend’s FA Cup clash at Birmingham City, from which Justin and left back Gabi Gudmundsson are the only two players to stay in the side.

Brighton loanee Facundo Buonanotte was one of the players brought into the XI at Birmingham but Buonanotte now fails to make the bench.

Noah Okafor, who suffered a hamstring injury in last weekend’s FA Cup clash at Birmingham City, had already been ruled out, the winger facing two to four weeks on the sidelines.

Okafor has already been ruled out of both today’s contest and also next weekend’s hosting of Manchester City.

Star back from injury to start for Villa

Villa boss Unai Emery has made seven changes to the Villa team that lined up for last weekend’s FA Cup clash against Newcastle United, Matty Cash coming straight back into the side after recovering from a knee injury.

Emi Martínez, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Ian Maatsen, Emi Buendía and Ollie Watkins also all come back into the team.

Aston Villa: Martínez; Cash, Konsa, Mings, Maatsen; Onana, Luiz; Bailey, Buendía, Rogers; Watkins. Subs: Wright, Lindelof, Digne, Torres, Garcia, Barkley, Bogarde, Sancho, Abraham.

Leeds United: Darlow; Bogle, Rodon, Justin, Struijk, Gudmundsson; Ampadu, Gruev, Stach; Aaronson, Calvert-Lewin. Subs: Perri, Bornauw, Bijol, Longstaff, Tanaka, James, Gnonto, Nmecha, Piroe.