{"id":312023,"date":"2025-08-02T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312023\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:31:10","slug":"team-news-leeds-united-vs-villarreal-cf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312023\/","title":{"rendered":"Team News: Leeds United vs Villarreal CF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team news is in for this afternoon\u2019s pre-season friendly with Spanish side Villarreal CF at Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Farke has named a strong starting lineup to begin the encounter, handing first Elland Road starts to new signings Gabriel Gudmundsson, Sean Longstaff, Anton Stach and Lukas Nmecha.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Darlow has been handed the gloves for the Whites\u2019 fourth outing of pre-season, playing behind a defence of Isaac Scmidt, Joe Rodon, Pascal Struijk and Gudmundsson.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper Ethan Ampadu sits in the heart of the midfield alongside Stach and Longstaff, with Brenden Aaronson and Willy Gnonto supporting lone striker Nmecha.<\/p>\n<p>The team in full reads: Darlow (GK), Schmidt, Rodon, Struijk, Gudmundsson, Ampadu (C), Longstaff, Stach, Gnonto, Nmecha, Aaaronson.<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Meslier (GK), Cairns (GK), Piroe, Bijol, Ramazani, Tanaka, Byram, Gruev, Gray, Chadwick, Crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team news is in for this afternoon\u2019s pre-season friendly with Spanish side Villarreal CF at Elland Road.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-312023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114959422863714284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}