Stoke City - v - Leeds United ***Matchday Thread***

[OldWhiteTaff]

Leeds XI vs. Stoke: Casilla; Dallas, White, Berardi, Alioski; Phillips; Hernandez (c), Forshaw, Klich, Harrison; Bamford.

Leeds subs: Meslier, Struijk, Shackleton, McCalmont, Gotts, Costa, Nketiah.

Set pieces are going to be a challenge today, and given we only have one recognised CB, and one recognised FB (playing as CB!), lets just hope we spend so much time attacking that we only have a little bit of defending to do..........

[Billyni]

Hope that cnut McClean is shyte

[OldWhiteTaff]

Butland had a stinker against Preston so he'll be MOM today

Dropped to bench:

Stoke team with SIX changes: Federici, Edwards, Collins, Carter-Vickers, Lindsay, McClean, Cousins, Clucas, Etebo, Duffy, Gregory. SUBS: Butland, Smith, Batth, Allen, Ince, Campbell, Hogan.

I hope we're not playing them one game too late

[BelfastAndy]

https://tinyurl.com/y4u5ye69

[OldWhiteTaff]

Its going to be critical that we don't give them an early goal to give them confidence, need to really get stuck in from the first whistle - which is why I'm disappointed Costa's not starting

[denver11]

That new handball rule mustn't apply to teams when they're playing Leeds. Stoke!player won a ball, fell!down, got up and won it again, all while Bamford stood and watched.

[OldWhiteTaff]

They look really nervous, ground is half empty and quiet - absolutely essential we score first

[denver11]

Where the hell was Bamford when Klich played that ball in. His positional play is sh it

[spaldy]

This does not look like a bottom of the table team

[OldWhiteTaff]

Like I said before, this is going to be a tough game, they are really up for this