Junior Firpo is making progress as he continues to recover from the injury he picked up in a pre-season clash with Blackpool last month. Jesse Marsch will no doubt provide an update in his Friday afternoon press conference, but Firpo isn’t expected to spend much longer on the Leeds United sidelines.
Pascal Struijk has stood in at left-back over the first two weeks of the Premier League campaign and he’s done a fine job in the role so far. It’s clear left-back is not his natural position and he has been caught out on one or two occasions, but for the most part the Dutchman has held his own against Wolves and Southampton over the opening couple of weekends.
However, it must be said that his biggest test in the role is to come this weekend as the Whites take on Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea on Sunday at Elland Road. Chelsea haven’t been as free-flowing as they would like to be in attack so far this season, with a 1-0 win against Everton being followed up by a 2-2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur last time out.
