{"id":672511,"date":"2026-01-04T03:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672511\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:46:11","slug":"team-news-for-leeds-v-man-utd-sunday-4-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672511\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news for Leeds v Man Utd | Sunday 4 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEEDS&#8217; TEAM NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hosts will be without skipper Ethan Ampadu after he was booked for handball in the 0-0 stalemate at Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth caution of the campaign results in a one-match suspension for the midfielder. Centre-back Joe Rodon also looks set to miss out, after injuring his ankle in the 1-1 draw away to Sunderland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sean Longstaff is battling to return soon, as is Daniel James, who is unlikely to feature against his former club.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Farke hopes Sebastian Bornauw and Ilia Gruev will be available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just cramps,&#8221; he said of their withdrawal on Merseyside. &#8220;We will see. There are some late decisions for Sunday, the earliest possible kick-off. We will find both solutions and I hope both are available.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEEDS&#8217; TEAM NEWS The hosts will be without skipper Ethan Ampadu after he was booked for handball in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[204106,1592,18,12,20,79,11385,16,15,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-672511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2026_01_04_elland_road_leeds","9":"tag-first-team","10":"tag-like","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-search","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-team-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-united-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115834780668738293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672511","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=672511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}