{"id":351025,"date":"2026-01-04T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:16:08","slug":"team-news-for-leeds-v-man-utd-sunday-4-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351025\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news for Leeds v Man Utd | Sunday 4 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEEDS&#8217; TEAM NEWS<\/p>\n<p>The hosts will be without skipper Ethan Ampadu after he was booked for handball in the 0-0 stalemate at Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth caution of the campaign results in a one-match suspension for the midfielder. Centre-back Joe Rodon also looks set to miss out, after injuring his ankle in the 1-1 draw away to Sunderland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sean Longstaff is battling to return soon, as is Daniel James, who is unlikely to feature against his former club.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Farke hopes Sebastian Bornauw and Ilia Gruev will be available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just cramps,&#8221; he said of their withdrawal on Merseyside. &#8220;We will see. There are some late decisions for Sunday, the earliest possible kick-off. We will find both solutions and I hope both are available.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEEDS&#8217; TEAM NEWS The hosts will be without skipper Ethan Ampadu after he was booked for handball in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[135151,3214,59,1753,50,1755,101,16322,56,54,1756,55],"class_list":["post-351025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026_01_04_elland_road_leeds","tag-first-team","tag-gb","tag-like","tag-news","tag-search","tag-sports","tag-team-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-now","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}