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Key events
Anyway, back to these teams. Leeds are without the injured Liam Cooper, so Ethan Ampadu moves back into defence. His place in midfield is taken by Archie Gray, with Sam Byram coming in at right-back; otherwise, it’s as you were.
Elsewhere: it’s Ipswich 2-2 Southampton with seven plus additional to go.
TEAMS!
Leeds United (4-3-3): Meslier; Byram, Rodon, Ampadu, Firpo; Kamara, Gray; Summerville, James, Rutter; Bamford. Subs: Darlow, Cresswell, Cooper, Shackleton, Crew, Anthony, Gelhardt, Piroe, Joseph.
Hull City (4-2-3-1): Allsop; Coyle, Jones, Tufan, Giles; Seri, Slater; Philogene, Carvalho, Seri; Omur; Subs: Pandur, McLoughlin, Ohio, Traoré, Sharp, Jacob, Christie, Connolly, Zaroury.
Preamble
To extol the Champo as football’s most exciting division is now true to the point of truism – and, let’s be real, it’s not exactly surprising to see Leeds, Leicester, Southampton and their parachute payments filling three of its top four places.
But the fact remains, the top 11 are playing for promotion and the bottom 10 are fighting against relegation – and for tonight, we’re focusing on the former.
Leeds are developing into a very pleasant football team, but tonight’s game doesn’t come at a great time for them, Willy Gnonto and Connor Roberts both out for a few weeks after hurting themselves on international duty, while Ilia Gruev is also a doubt. However, Patrick Bamford, Crysencio Summerville and Georginio Rutter give them a decent goal-threat nevertheless, and the best defensive record in the league gives them a chance of toughing out any game.
Hull, though, are no mugs, without a win in five but still ninth in the table just two points away from the playoffs. They lost at home to Stoke last time out, a miserable result by any standards, and lack a reliable goalscorer – all the more so given Liam Delap is injured. But Fabio Carvalho, though his Leipzig loan didn’t go well, remains a talent, and he’ll fancy himself to remind us of that this evening. I say this a lot, but: this should be good.
Kick-off: 8pm BST
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