{"id":686753,"date":"2026-01-10T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686753\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:57:10","slug":"u21s-team-news-reading-vs-leeds-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686753\/","title":{"rendered":"U21s Team News: Reading vs Leeds United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United Under-21s return to Premier League 2 action this lunchtime with a trip to Berkshire to face Reading Under-21s.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of kick-off at Bearwood Park, Whites\u2019 boss Scott Gardner has named a strong side to take on the Royals, beginning with Darryl Ombang in goal.<\/p>\n<p>The stopper starts behind a defence of Will Firth, Jacob Howard, experienced mentor Jonny Howson and Jayden Lienou.<\/p>\n<p>A midfield trio consists of skipper Alfie Cresswell, Ollie Pickles and Rhys Chadwick, behind an attacking line which features Harvey Vincent, Harry Gray and Josh McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>On the bench, deputy goalkeeper Robbie Cook is joined by Louis Enahoro-Marcus and Devon Brockie, alongside U18s regulars Carrick Njinko and Callum Mills.<\/p>\n<p><b>Starting XI: <\/b>Ombang (GK), Firth, Lienou, Cresswell (C), Howard, Howson, Vincent, Pickles, Gray, Chadwick, McDonald.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subs: <\/b>Cook (GK), Enahoro-Marcus, Njinko, Brockie, Mills.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reading: <\/b>Rhone (GK), Ahmed, Duah, Spencer, Stickland (C), Beacroft, Garcia, Sackey, Evans, Hicks, Patton.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subs: <\/b>Pullinger (GK), Osho, Howard, Okine-Peters, Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United Under-21s return to Premier League 2 action this lunchtime with a trip to Berkshire to face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686753","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\/115870921590509801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686753","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=686753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}