Daniel Farke has some more tough decisions to make with his Leeds United team selection at Preston North End this weekend.
Farke has rotated his squad well in recent weeks and made as many as four changes to the side that defeated Derby County against Middlesbrough on Tuesday.
In Max Wober and Sam Byram, two of them were enforced. However, the return of both Mateo Joseph and Wilfried Gnonto certainly made a difference.
Leeds picked up arguably their best win of the season against Boro and so each member of the starting XI will be desperate to keep their place.
However, Farke is almost spoilt for choice for options right now and so if he doesn’t get the rotation right, some players may begin to get a little bit frustrated.
Farke needs to make Largie Ramazani call for Leeds
You would struggle to find any pundit, supporter or manager who disagrees with the statement that Leeds have the best set of wingers in the Championship.
Neil Redfearn believes all four are Premier League level and at any other club in this division, they would be starting week-in, week-out.
That simply isn’t possible at Leeds now that each of them are fully fit, and so Farke has been rotating them well game by game.
However, one man who hasn’t been involved much as of late is Largie Ramazani, with his only minutes across the last five matches coming via three brief cameos since returning from injury.
Ramazani looks as though he is fourth choice in Farke’s mind right now but the form he showed prior to that spell on the sidelines suggests he shouldn’t be.
In six starts, the ‘electric‘ Ramazani scored three goals and provided one assist. Leeds won four of those matches, drawing twice and losing none.
Leeds are certainly going to need Ramazani over the busy festive period but the only way he is going to be match fit for those is by playing beforehand.
Given Leeds’ struggles away from home in his absence, it would make sense to bring him back into the XI for this one, whether that’s for Dan James, or Gnonto.
Farke knows Ramazani can create something out of nothing, a trait that is often needed when Leeds are struggling to break teams down.
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Leeds’ away record with vs without Ramazani
Though the sample size is only small, Leeds are unbeaten in all of the away matches they have played when Ramazani has started.
He scored at both Cardiff and Norwich City, and was also impressive in the draw at Sunderland that should’ve brought home three points.
Despite playing half the number of away matches without him in the side, they have only scored one more goal, which is pretty telling, especially when four came in the same game.
| With | Without | |
| Matches | 3 | 6 |
| Wins | 1 | 2 |
| Draws | 2 | 2 |
| Losses | 0 | 2 |
| Goals | 5 | 6 |
| Goals against | 3 | 5 |
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