The missing line-up
It’s a sad indictment of Leeds United’s performance and the general apathy around friendlies that Wednesday’s biggest headline revolved around absent players. There was an entirely different starting line-up of senior faces missing from the matchday squad.
Stuart Dallas and Luis Sinisterra are well-known as long-term injury cases, but the other nine were all supposed to be in and around the playing squad by the time the Premier League returned. They have another week to recover, but many of them are badly lacking in minutes before arguably the world’s best club side arrives in town.
