Proudly sporting a moustache-in-progress at the City Ground was Leeds United forward Lukas Nmecha, who is currently taking part in Movember to help change the face of men’s health.

The striker, who opened the scoring against Nottingham Forest with a fine finish into the bottom corner, wanted to continue participating in the campaign as he has in previous years, keen to draw on his own experience to help continue raising awareness.

“I have done it before and I think it is just a good cause,” the German international explained. “It is a good time to obviously think about those things.

“I am going more from like the mental health kind of stance because obviously I have had a lot of injuries in my career and a lot of mental battles, let’s say.

“I think it is just something that is important – mental health for sure – and obviously I am a Christian, so that really helps me in that sense. I think it is just a good cause and a good time to think about mental health so that is what I do.”

Having got rid of his beard on the final day of October, Lukas’ challenge began though he admits it did take a while for the results to show!

“I thought the moustache would grow a bit quicker, to be honest,” he laughed. “But apart from that, I mean, it is starting to come through.

“The constant shaving is a bit annoying but apart from that, it is fine. I don’t really get itchy tashes. I look about five to ten years younger as well!”

The cause is one very close to Nmecha, having opened up about his previous struggles with injury and the subsequent battles that has brought.

Spreading the word is the forward’s ultimate goal and, supported by his teammates, Lukas is hoping to use his platform to help continue the fight against mental health challenges and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

“I think it is good to see people do it and just go off your own back. I am doing it just to make people a bit more aware of it.

“I think it is widely known that men often don’t speak as much and I think a lot of guys are like that, to be honest.

“But yeah, it is definitely important to just speak. I think in itself that does a lot. When I have a lot of things on my mind, I speak to my family, my friends. I write stuff down as well, which helps me quite a lot.”