Confirmed Leeds United starting XI to face Luton as Daniel Farke makes one change in attack

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Daniel Farke has made one change to his Leeds United starting XI to face Luton Town at Elland Road.

Having started the midweek round of Championship fixtures in first place, Leeds head into tonight’s game sat fourth in the table following wins for both Sheffield United and Burnley, as well as Sunderland’s draw.

Leeds can move back into the top two if they avoid defeat but know they can return to the summit with a victory by any margin of scoreline.

With just three matches in six days, Farke did hint he would make changes to his Leeds line-up as a trip to Blackburn Rovers awaits early on Saturday afternoon.

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder has criticised the schedule thrown some teams way this week and Leeds certainly fall under that category.

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Farke names Leeds starting XI vs Luton

Despite suggesting he would be freshening things up Farke has opted to name just the one change from his XI at Swansea City.

Farke’s most difficult decision was always going to come in attack after making the surprise call to drop Wilfried Gnonto at Swansea City in favour of Manor Solomon.

However, after Solomon netted twice in South Wales, it would’ve been extremely harsh for him to drop the Israeli tonight and so he keeps his place, with Gnonto replacing Dan James, despite his hattrick of assists.

That means Brenden Aaronson keeps his place in the number 10 role, with Joel Piroe also getting the nod over Mateo Joseph again.

Confirmed XI: Meslier; Bogle, Rodon, Struijk, Byram; Tanaka, Rothwell; Gnonto, Aaronson, Solomon; Piroe

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Leeds confirmed bench vs Luton

Farke certainly has plenty of options from the bench if he wants to change things, particularly in those forward positions.

Dan James, Largie Ramazani, Joseph and Patrick Bamford will all be hoping for some minutes at some point.

Youngsters James Debayo and Charlie Crew keep their places in the matchday squad, after the former got his first team debut late on at Swansea.

Karl Darlow, Sam Byram and Josuha Guilavogui make up the remainder of Farke’s set of nine substitutes.

Confirmed bench: Darlow, Wober, Debayo, Crew, Guilavogui, Ramazani, James, Joseph, Bamford