Changes on the injury list look few and far between for Leeds United while Joe Gelhardt’s ongoing inability to train for a full week means Jesse Marsch has a select few dilemmas. Junior Firpo, Patrick Bamford, Tyler Roberts and Jamie Shackleton remain unavailable, while Leo Hjelde and Gelhardt seem to be in the reckoning for the squad, but perhaps not the starting line-up.
Marsch has previously admitted Gelhardt would have started for him by now had it not been for a litany of small problems coming between the striker and a full week’s training. On Thursday, the head coach said, again, Gelhardt had not been able to train fully after a dead leg in the Premier League 2 match on Monday night.
It seems distinctly unlikely Gelhardt will start at Vicarage Road. The big debate rests on Kalvin Phillips and how the England international is integrated into the starting line-up, if at all.
