{"id":680759,"date":"2026-01-07T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680759\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:19:12","slug":"team-news-daniel-farke-names-xi-to-face-newcastle-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680759\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Daniel Farke names XI to face Newcastle United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United are back in Premier League action this evening as they take on Newcastle United at St James&#8217; Park.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Farke has made a total of two changes to the starting line-up as, we see the return of Joe Rodon and Ethan Ampadu to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Perri remains in net for the clash, with Rodon joined by Pascal Struijk, Jaka Bijol, James Justin and Gabi Gudmundsson in our defence.<\/p>\n<p>Our captain Ampadu is alongside Anton Stach and Ilia Gruev in the midfield, whilst Brenden Aaronson supports Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the Leeds United attack.<\/p>\n<p>The substitutes bench includes goalkeeper Karl Darlow, Noah Okafor, Joel Piroe, Lukas Nmecha, Jack Harrison, Sam Byram, Ao Tanaka, Willy Gnonto and Seb Bornauw.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s game is scheduled to kick-off at 8.15pm and will be streamed live on Sky Sports. You can follow the Leeds United blog online or listen live on LUTV.<\/p>\n<p><b>Starting XI: Perri (GK), Gudmundsson, Ampadu (C), Struijk, Rodon, Calvert-Lewin, Aaronson, Bijol, Stach, Justin, Gruev.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Substitutes: Darlow (GK), Piroe, Nmecha, Okafor, Harrison, Tanaka, Bornauw, Byram, Gnonto.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United are back in Premier League action this evening as they take on Newcastle United at St&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-680759","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\/115855908259298531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680759","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=680759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}