Farke: Struijk’s Availability for Oxford Match is 50-50

Pascal Struijk has made 22 appearances this season. Leeds United is set to host Oxford United on Saturday, aiming for a ninth consecutive home victory in the Championship. Insights from Daniel Farke’s pre-match press conference include the following: Regarding team news: Farke indicated that defender Pascal Struijk’s availability for the upcoming match is 50-50 due to a hamstring injury, which has kept the centre-back from training for two days. Additionally, fellow defender Max Wober’s chances of playing are slim after experiencing knee swelling. Junior Firpo (hamstring) and Illia Gruev (knee) continue to be unavailable. Farke also expressed his hope that Gruev would resume training at some point in January. Addressing the team’s away form, particularly their tendency to concede the initial goal: Farke stated, “I think there is not one reason, otherwise it would be easy to change.” He continued, “We are also a young side, we spoke about the aggressiveness and excitement that has to be on the top level in away games. We are not good enough to go into a game at 98%. In a tricky away game decisions are sometimes not easy to accept when there should be a red card or something – in our last away game it was a bit the case. The sharpness of how we start could have been more on it.”