OPINION
Leeds United can smash Swansea City at Elland Road on Wednesday night if they make two changes to the side that dominated Middlesbrough on Saturday.
In what has been an enduring theme for the Yorkshire giants this season, they outplayed Boro at the Riverside Stadium but were unable to score the goals that matched their sparkling approach play.
One team very soon is going to be on the end of a hiding from Marcelo Bielsa’s automatic promotion hopefuls.
And, that could be Graham Potter’s team if Bielsa replaces the unavailable Jack Clarke, hit-and-miss Jack Harrison and woefully out-of-form Luke Ayling in the starting XI with Pablo Hernandez, Tyler Roberts and Jamie Shackleton.
Certainly, Ayling, the £750,000 signing from Bristol City (source: Express) in 2016, deserves to be axed following another nerve-riddled and error-strewn display at the weekend.
Shackleton, 19, does not have the senior right-back’s experience, but can provide vim, vigour and blistering speed from the flank.
Leeds will also benefit from Hernandez carrying on where he left off at the weekend by returning to the playmaker role and pulling the strings from behind the front three.
With Harrison delivering another mixed display against Boro, this is the ideal opportunity to re-introduce the athletic and physical Roberts and he could form a really potent front three with Kemar Roofe and Patrick Bamford.
With the right service, those three can create mayhem against a Swansea side vulnerable in defence.