Leeds United captain Ethan Ampadu suffers MCL injury

Yorkshire Evening Post

Leeds United writer Lee Sobot on the latest Whites team news and the blow of losing captain Ethan Ampadu until after the September international break with a medial collateral ligament knee injury.

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00:01Hello there, Lee Sobot at the Orchard Evening Post here from Thorpe Arch

00:05where we've just had Daniel Farker's pre-Arsenal press conference

00:08and bad news unfortunately on the injuries front

00:11sort of an injury that we all kind of feared might be the case

00:14which is that Ethan Ampadu is now out with an MCL injury, a knee injury

00:19that said, hopefully it won't be too bad

00:21but he is going to be out until the international break

00:23so he's going to miss obviously Saturday's game at Arsenal

00:26also the League Cup game next weekend, Sheffield Wednesday

00:29and then the home clash against Newcastle United the following Saturday evening

00:32so out of those three games, big blow for Leeds

00:35he was absolutely outstanding the other night

00:37it has to be said when he went down after that challenge in the second half

00:40it didn't look great, he looked in real pain, looked frustrated, upset

00:44and I was very surprised actually that he got up and continued

00:46but he has made a very very strong stuffy for Nampadu

00:49and within that is probably the sort of bit of hope that you have now

00:52because he does tend to recover quite quickly from these injuries

00:55so let's hope that he is obviously back a little bit

00:58maybe surprises people with how quickly he comes back

01:01but I think he is certainly going to be out of these next three games

01:04which is a big blow because as I say, outstanding the other night

01:07probably means obviously somebody else is going to have to

01:09well it will mean somebody else is going to have to come in to a CDM role

01:12Anton Stack is probably the most likely candidate for that

01:15although Ilya Gruov is there as well

01:17that said, more positive news on the new signings front

01:20Dominic Calvert-Lewin hasn't featured as yet

01:22that's not been a surprise because as soon as he signed last Friday

01:25Daniel Farker said afterwards that it might be international break

01:28after the international break until he featured for the first time

01:31yes he said he had been training but not pre-season, not team training

01:35said that each session is beneficial to him

01:38and basically they will make a spontaneous decision on when he features

01:41I mean, he is not going to be starting is he?

01:43but you never know, he might be someone that pops up on the bench

01:45and the same also with new signing Noah Okafor

01:48you can see potentially bench for him

01:49he signed literally a couple of hours before the press conference

01:52signed from AC Milan

01:54four year deal, around about £18m

01:57including add-ons

01:59so the biggest signing so far just about of the summer

02:02the bonus with Okafor is he has already been involved with AC Milan

02:05both in pre-season and I think it was a Coppa Italia game recently as well

02:09so his fitness will be a bit further on

02:11that said obviously he hasn't had one training session as yet

02:15the first one will be today

02:17so again with him probably be a bit touch and go

02:20but could maybe see again on the bench

02:22I think that's basically it on the team news front

02:23obviously Sebastian Bornau was the other injury

02:26but he came back onto the bench the other night

02:28so he's all good

02:29and Jadon Bogle obviously is now back in the mix as well

02:32having started

02:33so he should obviously be in better shape for the Arsenal game

02:35but no doubt about the headline act

02:37Ampadu injured, massive shame

02:39class player, captain as well

02:40probably means Pascal is going to be captain I would imagine

02:42Pascal Stroik being that said

02:44you know maybe you would have thought initially the ACAB hall would start

02:47but I don't think Fark will change it really

02:50after Pascal and Joe Rodon get to clean sheets

02:53you're probably looking at one change I would imagine

02:55against Arsenal

02:56waiting to see who comes in

02:57whether it's Gruev or whether it's Longstaff or something like that

02:59but yeah big blow, Ethan Ampadu out and let's just hope he's back ASAP

03:03that's all for now

03:05go onto our website for all the pre-Arsenal build up

03:07we will catch you soon

03:08Cheers

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