There were fitness boosts aplenty in Marcelo Bielsa’s press conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Sheffield Wednesday for Leeds United.
Liam Cooper and Jamie Shackleton are expected to be in the matchday 18 at Hillsborough, which means changes are suddenly afoot for the head coach.
The debate about who should start as the team’s striker will rage until Patrick Bamford scores or Bielsa relents and plays Eddie Nketiah.
We asked fans and readers for the team they wanted to see play in South Yorkshire tomorrow lunchtime and, using our interactive widget, they have let us know.
Defensively there are no huge surprises. Captain Liam Cooper is expected to replace Gaetano Berardi and the fans agree that should happen.
Stuart Dallas has been playing as a makeshift central midfielder in the absence of Adam Forshaw and Shackleton, but fans have seen enough.
Tyler Roberts’s encouraging forays from the substitutes’ bench have proved enough for fans to want him starting in Dallas’s place, alongside, a presumably more defensive, Mateusz Klich.
Kalvin Phillips, predictably, stays put, as do Jack Harrison and Helder Costa on the flanks, despite the latter’s limited impact.
And to the major debate of the season: attack. Nketiah gets the nod. After eight matches without a goal, the fans have seen enough of Bamford from the start.
Here is the fans’ XI in full and our widget if you want to build your own team.
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