Patrick Bamford issue leads to very late Leeds United change at Swansea City

Boss Daniel Farke was forced into making a very late change to Leeds United's starting line up for Tuesday night's Championship clash at Swansea City due to a Patrick Bamford issue.

Farke had named an unchanged side for the contest but was forced into making a late alteration to his XI as Whites no 9 Bamford pulled out during the warm up.

Joel Piroe instead came into the XI against his former side to partner Georginio Rutter in the front line as keeper Dani van den Heuvel took Piroe's place amongst the substitutes as part of a two-keeper bench which already featured Kristoffer Klaesson.

Leeds then romped to a 4-0 victory with Piroe on the scoresheet to accompany a brace from Willy Gnonto and Crysencio Summerville opener. Speaking post-match, Farke said of Bamford's issue: "Ten, 15 minutes before kick-off it was clear Patrick had some problems.

"It's not really clear if it's a muscle problem, ligaments, it happened during the warm-up. It's really difficult to tell. His first reaction was it's not too bad but we couldn't say if it was muscular, or if he over-stretched his knee and it was something with a ligament.

"I hope it's not too bad, we need him for the upcoming games. He came in and said I don't feel ready to go and Joel had to come in. He delivered in a perfect way, not just in terms of his goal, but his workload. He didn't make us nervous, we stuck 100 per cent to the plan. I'm happy with how the team reacted.”