Phil Hay names biggest call in Leeds United starting XI v Leicester after Summerville news
Phil Hay has questioned if Daniel Farke will make any changes to his Leeds United starting XI against Leicester City on Friday 03 November.
The Whites travel to the King Power Stadium for a crucial Championship clash with Crysencio Summerville expected to be fine after his latest injury news.
Hay believes that Farke may be tempted to name an unchanged team from the win against Huddersfield, with the possible reintroduction of Archie the biggest call.
Speaking on the Squareball podcast on their preview ahead of the game, Hay shared what he expects of the team selection for the King Power Stadium.
“He’s had a shoulder injury,” he said.
“Farke was saying after the Stoke game, the reason he hadn’t started that game was because of a bit of pain in his shoulder that he was having to take painkillers just to get through some of these games.
“I would have thought, that a week would have been long enough for him to be ready. I do think to an extent, the game on Saturday kind of crystallised the idea of what Farke’s best XI is or something pretty close to his best XI.
“I think Summerville has to be in that, and absolutely think Dan James has to be in that as well, I don’t think you’re making many changes, if any to that starting line-up from Saturday.
“I’m not even sure you would bring Archie Gray back in place of Shackleton at right back, but that’s probably the biggest of the calls there.”
Big call.
Given how Leeds came out of the blocks against Huddersfield, it should be expected that the starting XI will stay exactly the same, but you never know.
Leicester is a completely different test to our local rivals, with the table-toppers currently on a charge towards every Championship record in the book.
Leeds will fancy their chances though, with the Foxes not exactly blowing teams away after struggling past Queens Park Rangers last time out in the Championship.
Both Shackleton and Gray have been superb when called upon this season, and you have the small matter of experience in the form of Luke Ayling to potentially choose from too.
It is nice for Farke to have options, but he has to choose what he believes is best, this game is not the time for novelty selections to try and keep everyone happy.
A win is needed, let’s hope the team is good enough to do just that.
In other Leeds United news, Fabrizio Romano has dropped a new Summerville update