{"id":676652,"date":"2026-01-06T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676652\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:36:10","slug":"newcastle-united-vs-leeds-united-predicted-xi-for-daniel-farkes-side-in-st-james-park-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676652\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle United vs. Leeds United: Predicted XI for Daniel Farke&#8217;s side in St James&#8217; Park battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/leeds-united\/\" title=\"Leeds United\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/daniel-farke\/\" title=\"Daniel Farke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Farke<\/a> will welcome captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/ethan-ampadu\/\" title=\"Ethan Ampadu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethan Ampadu<\/a> back into his starting side for Wednesday&#8217;s Premier League clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/newcastle-united\/\" title=\"Newcastle United\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ampadu missed the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/leeds-united\/result\/leeds-hold-man-utd-to-hard-fought-draw-to-extend-unbeaten-premier-league-run_589164.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1-1 draw with Manchester United<\/a><\/strong> on Sunday through suspension, but the midfielder is set to return to the first XI for the game at St James&#8217; Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/daniel-james\/\" title=\"Daniel James\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel James<\/a>\u00a0(thigh) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/joe-rodon\/\" title=\"Joe Rodon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Rodon<\/a> (foot) will again be absent, while\u00a0Jayden Bogle (calf) is a doubt for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Ampadu&#8217;s return is likely to mean that Ilia Gruev drops out of the side, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/dominic-calvert-lewin\/\" title=\"Dominic Calvert-Lewin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/a> and Noah Okafor impressing as a front two against Man United.<\/p>\n<p>Calvert-Lewin was unable to add to his eight Premier League goals this season against Man United, but he came incredibly close to registering, hitting the post with a trademark header in the first half of that encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Brenden Aaronson was on the scoresheet in the clash with the Red Devils and will continue in a central position for the promoted outfit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leeds United possible starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perri; Bijol, Bornauw, Struijk; Justin, Stach, Aaronson, Ampadu, Gudmundsson; Calvert-Lewin, Okafor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/newcastle-united\/injury-news\/predicted-lineups\/woltemade-to-return-how-newcastle-could-line-up-against-leeds_589284.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; Click here to see how Newcastle could line up for the match<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United head coach Daniel Farke will welcome captain Ethan Ampadu back into his starting side for Wednesday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,4230,393,68644,94,707,2826,4884,1860,22138,7126,101,4151,93,68303,10938,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-676652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-epl","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-leeds","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-olympics","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-rugby","21":"tag-sport","22":"tag-sports-mole","23":"tag-teams","24":"tag-tennis","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115845594234709044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676652","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=676652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}