Teen star brought on to Leeds United bench with Whites side unchanged for Swansea City clash
LEEDS UNITED head coach Marcelo Bielsa has named an unchanged side for Sunday's Championship clash at Swansea City with playmaker Pablo Hernandez staying on the bench.
Hernandez has been managing a hamstring issue and has started United's last four games from the bench, coming on in the second half each time.
The Spaniard is again amongst the Whites substitutes for the 1.30pm kick-off at the Liberty Stadium meaning Tyler Roberts will again start in the no 10 role behind lone striker Patrick Bamford.
Mateusz Klich continues his remarkable run of starting every Leeds league game for the last seasons in centre midfield in making his 91st successive Championship start and lining up ahead of Kalvin Phillips in the holding midfield role.
Helder Costa and Jack Harrison again take the wing positions with 'keeper Illan Meslier lining up behind a back four of Luke Ayling, skipper Liam Cooper, Ben White and Stuart Dallas.
There is one change on the Whites bench with 18-year-old Polish attacking midfielder Mateusz Bogusz replacing Jordan Stevens.
Midfielder Adam Forshaw remains out as he recovers from hip surgery.
Victory would take United three points clear at the top of the table and re-establish a six-point cushion in the division's automatic promotion places with three games left.
Swansea, though, line up just one point and one spot adrift of a play-offs place with boss Steve Cooper naming an unchanged side with Liverpool loanee and England under-21s striker Rhian Brewster upfront.
Brewster has netted eight goals in 16 league appearances for the Swans for whom former Whites loanee and now Swansea captain Matt Grimes starts in midfield.
Leeds United: Meslier, Ayling, White, Cooper, Dallas, Phillips, Klich, Harrison, Costa, Roberts, Bamford. Subs: Miazek, Douglas, Bogusz, Berardi, Shackleton, Alioski, Poveda, Hernandez, Struijk.
Swansea City: Woodman; Naughton, Cabango, Guehi; Roberts, Fulton, Grimes, Bidwell; Gallagher, Ayew; Brewster. Subs: Mulder, van der Hoorn, Byers, Dyer, Routledge, Kalulu, Celina, Dhanda, Cullen.
Referee: Keith Stroud.