Matchday

Team news: Daniel Farke names XI to face Sunderland

Starting line-up announced.

Rothwell at Sunderland

Leeds United are away from home once again this evening as they face Sunderland in the Sky Bet Championship.

Daniel Farke has made two changes to our starting XI, following the injury to Ilia Gruev during our midweek fixture Joe Rothwell comes into the line-up, as Joel Piroe replaces Mateo Joseph.

Illan Meslier starts in goal for the game, with captain Pascal Struijk joined by Joe Rodon, Junior Firpo and Jayden Bogle in our defence.

Rothwell plays alongside Ao Tanaka in our midfield whilst Piroe joins Largie Ramazani, Willy Gnonto and Brenden Aaronson in the Leeds United attack.

Our substitutes bench tonight features goalkeeper Karl Darlow, Patrick Bamford, Mateo Joseph, Sam Byram, Isaac Schmidt, James Debayo, Joe Gelhardt, Charlie Crew and Sam Chambers.

The fixture is scheduled to kick-off at 8pm and for those not in attendance at the Stadium of Light you can follow the live blog here.

For those who are outside the UK and Ireland a match pass can be purchased at LUTV to watch the game.

Starting XI: Meslier (GK), Bogle, Junior, Struijk (C), Rodon, Rothwell, Piroe, Aaronson, Ramazani, Tanaka, Gnonto.

Substitutes: Darlow (GK), Bamford, Mateo Joseph, Byram, Gelhardt, Schmidt, Debayo, Chambers, Crew.

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