It felt like the cavalry was arriving at Leeds railway station yesterday just when it felt like Leeds United needed a boost.
The bench Marcelo Bielsa has been selecting across the past few weeks has been young and inexperienced to say the least.
Finally, some light at the end of the tunnel as Ian Poveda, Rodrigo, Kalvin Phillips and Gaetano Berardi were all pictured in the travelling party to London.
The head coach continued his recent trend of reservation when it came to team news in his pre-match press conference on Thursday.
All of the possibly injured players would return “subject to their evolution” or words to that effect, so we have the under-23s match, Leif Davis’s video and train photographs to go off for clues.
Adam Forshaw, Robin Koch, Pascal Struijk and Jamie Shackleton are the only members of the senior squad we have reason to believe won’t be involved tonight.
Full Leeds United squad: Illan Meslier, Luke Ayling, Liam Cooper, Ian Poveda, Patrick Bamford, Ezgjan Alioski, Tyler Roberts, Kiko Casilla, Diego Llorente, Stuart Dallas, Helder Costa, Raphinha, Pablo Hernandez, Rodrigo, Jack Harrison, Kalvin Phillips, Leif Davis, Gaetano Berardi, Mateusz Klich, Jack Jenkins.
