Graham Smyth: Adam Forshaw could start for Leeds v Wolves
Leeds United will be without another handful of players for their Premier League clash against Wolves this weekend.
Marcelo Bielsa confirmed this afternoon that Kalvin Phillips will once again miss out, sparking another problem in midfield.
Graham Smyth has been racking his brain for the solution and has suggested that Adam Forshaw could finally be the man to step forward.
Writing on his personal Twitter account, the reliable Yorkshire Evening Post journalist shared what could happen in the starting XI.
“I wonder about Forshaw starting in midfield,” he wrote.
“Shackleton at RB seems almost nailed on, and I don’t know that I can see Struijk starting at CDM again. There are risks with every possible scenario.”
Bring him in?
Pascal Struijk was the man handed the chance to start against Southampton in midfield and dropping into a back three, and it simply didn’t work.
It was easily proved last season that his best position is in the heart of the back four, and midfield shouldn’t be an option.
Could Forshaw be the answer?
Having been injured for two years and suffering smaller setbacks along the way, he finally came off the bench in the Premier League again last weekend.
Is he ready to be thrown into a Premier League start? If he wants to earn a new deal at Elland Road, he has to prove himself, starting this weekend.
Forshaw must be jumping at the chance to start and do just that, and Bielsa doesn’t really have any other options in midfield.
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