'I genuinely believe...' – Leeds Super Fans pick starting XI for huge clash v Forest

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07 Feb 2020, 5:41 am

Leeds United face two of their biggest promotion rivals over the space of four days, starting with Nottingham Forest on Saturday.

After that, it's a trip to Griffin Park to face Brentford and while the games won't completely define the season, they could well propel Leeds into a very strong position in the top two.

In all reality, if anyone offered us four points from the two games we'd snap their hands off now.

Marcelo Bielsa didn't confirm his starting XI in his pre-match press conference on Thursday but he did hint that Jean-Kevin Augustin wasn't going to be ready.

He said he was at 50% and that he needed him at 70%.

That will likely see Patrick Bamford lead the line again on Saturday, which will make a lot of Leeds fans pretty unhappy.

But what do our Super Fans think? We asked them to name their starting XI for the game on Saturday and this is what they had to say...

Tim Aubert (@TimAubert)

Luke (@LukeParsonsss)

Adam Elliott (@adam_elliott118)

Simon Gardner (@simamuofficial)

Adam Ross (@rossi_on)

Adam Copley (@Adam_coppers98)

Jordy Phillips (@JordyP1993)

Down to a man, our Super Fans want to see Augustin on the bench although Jordy Phillips said it the best when he said there was "about a 15% chance" of that happening.

Interestingly, two Super Fans want to see Illan Meslier come in for Kiko Casilla, with the Leeds number one goalie in a real dip of form.

Another interesting takeaway is that none of our Super Fans put Gaetano Berardi in, and we think away from home and against Forest, he could come in with Gjanni Alioski dropping out and Stuart Dallas slotting in on the left.

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