Spotted: Charlie Cresswell travels with Leeds United squad to West Brom
Charlie Cresswell has travelled with the Leeds United squad to take on West Brom in the Championship on Friday 29 December at The Hawthorns.
Leeds Live journalist Beren Cross shared the news with Patrick Bamford, Mateo Joseph and Ethan Ampadu among the first to arrive onto the pitch.
Daniel Farke’s men go into the game on the back of that disappointing Boxing Day defeat against Preston at Deepdale, looking to bounce back immediately.
He wrote on X: “Bamford and Cresswell also out on the pitch now.”
Cresswell was not in the squad at all for the last three Championship games against Coventry, Ipswich and Preston with rotation clearly on the mind.
Injury?
With team news set to be confirmed in minutes, it will be interesting to see if Farke is just rotating or if there has been an injury in the build-up to this one.
The Christmas period is gruelling in the English Football League, and with the games coming thick and fast, it would be no surprise to see a casualty.
Cresswell will not be happy with the amount of game time he has received this season after signing a new long-term contract at Elland Road in the summer, but he is still young.
With Joe Rodon, Pascal Struijk and Liam Cooper ahead of him, he will be learning every day at Thorp Arch and will hopefully put that experience to good use very soon.
Leeds need to bounce back on the pitch tonight, with three points simply critical after a poor month has seen them drop behind Southampton in the race to catch the top two.
Time will tell whether Cresswell will be in the squad or not, it looks likely though.
In other Leeds United news, Darren Bent and Andy Goldstein shared a Farke sack verdict live on talkSPORT.