{"id":143784,"date":"2025-10-25T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143784\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:00:10","slug":"leeds-v-west-ham-team-news-darlow-stach-benched-diouf-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143784\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds v West Ham team news:\u00a0Darlow + Stach benched, Diouf starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gameweek 9 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) gets underway at Elland Road, where Leeds United and West Ham United meet in a 20:00 BST kick-off.<\/p>\n<p>TEAM NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Farke makes four changes to his Leeds side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucas Perri<\/strong>, <strong>Jaka Bijol<\/strong>, <strong>Ao Tanaka<\/strong> and <strong>Noah Okafor <\/strong>come in, while <strong>Karl Darlow<\/strong>, <strong>Pascal Struijk<\/strong>, <strong>Anton Stach <\/strong>and <strong>Jack Harrison<\/strong> drop to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>As for West Ham, <strong>Aaron Wan-Bissaka <\/strong>and <strong>El Hadji Malick Diouf <\/strong>are both handed recalls.<\/p>\n<p>They replace <strong>Kyle Walker-Peters<\/strong> and <strong>Mateus Fernandes<\/strong>, who are named among the substitutes.<\/p>\n<p>The line-up suggests Nuno Espirito Santo will use a back three formation, which is the system West Ham used in the second half against Brentford on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>LINE-UPS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leeds United XI:\u00a0<\/strong>Perri, Bogle, Rodon, Bijol, Gudmundsson, Ampadu, Longstaff, Tanaka, Aaronson, Okafor, Calvert-Lewin<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Darlow, Justin, Struijk, Gruev, Stach, Harrison, James, Nmecha, Piroe<\/p>\n<p><strong>West Ham United XI:\u00a0<\/strong>Areola, Todibo, Kilman, Scarles, Wan-Bissaka, Soucek, Irving, Diouf, Bowen, Summerville, Paqueta<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Igor, Wilson, Fernandes, Rodriguez, Magassa, Potts, Marshall<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/FFScoutEditorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250804-WA0005-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143262 webpexpress-processed\" style=\"width:700px\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gameweek 9 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) gets underway at Elland Road, where Leeds United and West Ham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,84714,6,19,17,11,12,84973,84974,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-143784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-gameweek-9","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-leeds-v-west-ham-line-ups","20":"tag-leeds-v-west-ham-team-news","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115432103859801205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}