Leeds United press conference live: Jesse Marsch provides Patrick Bamford and team news update
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Leeds United head coach Jesse Marsch will field questions from the media today as he prepares his side to face Chelsea on Sunday.
United are unbeaten so far this season, winning 2-1 versus Wolverhampton Wanderers at Elland Road before throwing away a two-goal lead and two additional points at Southampton last weekend.
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Hide AdThere are a handful of possible absentees in Marsch’s squad, while there remain a select few confirmed to be watching on from the sidelines including Stuart Dallas.
Updates throughout the day here from Marsch’s press conference as it happens.
Leeds United press conference live: Jesse Marsch provides Patrick Bamford and team news update
Recap: What Marsch said this time last week
We've had a lot more guys in training this week. So Adam, Liam and Luis are training and are eligible for the weekend. Still, Junior's probably a couple of weeks behind. The same with Luke Ayling, although he had a visit to a surgeon down in London, and the surgeon said that he's ahead of schedule and looking really good and it just needs a little bit more time. And then Stuart Dallas, I saw on the pitch today, moving around a little bit. So that was an exciting moment for us and then Dani van den Heuvel is still working on his neck but looking positive as well. So we've got more options this week, which is what we felt would be the case last week.
A first start of the season for Joffy?
This weekend could see Joe Gelhardt line up in the starting XI, if he’s been able to overcome the dead leg which kept him sidelined six days ago at Southampton.
Rodrigo likely to lead the line in attack if Bamford is to be absent, but don’t rule out Marsch deploying both.
That said, the potential for Brenden Aaronson to operate centrally in the No. 10 role with Rodrigo in front could have the potential to hurt Chelsea’s experienced, but ageing defence.
Early team news
Jesse Marsch likes to begin his press conferences with an injury and team news update, however Patrick Bamford seems to have beaten him to it this weekend.
On the Leeds United Official Podcast, here’s what the striker said about his availability on Sunday.
I’m alright, to be fair. I’ve got a slight groin injury, so I’ll probably miss, maybe the Chelsea game.
But I think it’s just part and parcel of kind of coming back. Obviously I barely played last year, and barely trained actually as well.
I reckon the amount of times I’ve trained from when I first got injured to end the season with probably less than 10 – like actually with the team, was basically like a whole year out - so I think it’s just getting used to it again until Saturday when I just felt it a little bit, I was feeling alright.
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