Leeds United had been dealt one other damage hit forward of their Premier League encounter with Leicester Metropolis on Thursday evening.

What’s the final?

Talking at his pre-match press convention (by way of the Yorkshire Put up), Jesse Marsch revealed that Pascal Struijk won’t be accessible for choice for the journey to the King Energy Stadium tomorrow evening, because the defender took a knock to the coaching this week.

Nonetheless, the 48-year-old recommended that if all goes nicely, the Dutchman ought to be again in time for Fulham’s go to on Sunday afternoon.

Relating to the 23-year-old’s situation, the American coach mentioned: “Pascal obtained injured slightly bit and he will not be accessible for tomorrow, however we hope that he will likely be accessible on Sunday. We’ll see how the subsequent few days go.”

Unhealthy information

Contemplating how spectacular Struijk has been in Leeds’ backline up to now this season, the truth that the centre-back will not be match to play in opposition to the Foxes on Thursday is undoubtedly unhealthy information for Marsch. and your crew.

Certainly, throughout his 9 Premier League video games in 2022/23, all of which have been at left-back, the £13m-valued expertise has been in distinctive attacking kind, scoring a aim, offering an help and creating two nice alternatives for his teammates, along with taking a mean of 0.7 pictures -0.4 of which have hit the target-, making 0.8 key passes and finishing 0.9 dribbles per sport.

The £29k-per-week defender has additionally impressed within the metrics extra typical of his place, serving to his crew hold two clear sheets, in addition to averaging 3.3 tackles, joint eighth-most in the whole league – 1.7 interceptions , 1.6 clearances and seven.3 duels received -with a hit fee of 53%- per sport.

These returns have seen the participant who, in accordance with Marsch himself, is presently taking part in in a “high level” averaged a formidable SofaScore match score of 6.91, making him the Whites’ sixth-best participant within the high flight, fairly a rare feat contemplating he is been taking part in in an unfamiliar place.

As such, whereas Leeds have Junior Firpo available for the journey to Leicester, nonetheless, it’s clear that the 23-year-old’s absence will likely be an enormous one.”blow” – within the phrases of Graham Smyth – to the Whites’ possibilities of taking the three factors to Elland Highway on Thursday evening, as Struijk has been an integral a part of Marsch’s protection this season.