Phil Hay shares Patrick Bamford Leeds injury update after Swansea

Leeds made it seven wins in a row within the Championship and in addition stored a fourth consecutive clear sheet as they thumped Swansea 4-0 in South Wales on Tuesday. Crysencio Summerville and Joel Piroe put the Whites command with a quickfire double inside the primary 10 minutes, and Wilfried Gnonto successfully settled the sport earlier than the break. The Italian would add one other within the second half to spherical out the victory.

Elsewhere, Southampton suffered a primary defeat in 23 league matches away to Bristol Metropolis, which implies that Leeds now climb into the automated promotion locations. They’ve performed a recreation greater than the Saints, however all of the momentum is with Daniel Farke’s facet proper now. In truth, the one concern to come up from Tuesday night time was an harm to Patrick Bamford.

Bamford had been resulting from begin the sport, however he picked up a problem within the warm-up, and Farke needed to draft in Joel Piroe late on as an alternative. Leeds at the moment are anxiously ready for extra data on the difficulty.

Bamford injures knee earlier than Swansea recreation

Reporting from Farke’s post-match press convention, The Athletic’s Phil Hay supplied a Bamford replace. The striker has apparently damage his knee, however Leeds aren’t but certain whether or not any ligaments have been broken.

The participant himself was optimistic that the difficulty is not “too dangerous”, however Leeds will after all want him to bear specialist examination to find out whether or not he requires a spell on the sidelines.

“Trainer” Bamford had been flying

Bamford did not make his first league look of the present season till the top of September after struggling a hamstring injury throughout pre-season. Since his return, he is began six Championship video games and appeared in 16 extra off the bench.

He would not rating his first objective of the season till the 3-0 win over Birmingham Metropolis on New 12 months’s Day, however had been in nice type since then. Earlier than Tuesday’s recreation, he’d scored 5 targets and supplied two assists in his final 9 appearances in all competitions.

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The previous Swans star loved a beautiful go to to his former membership on Tuesday.

That stretch earned him Leeds’ Player of the Month award for January, and in addition noticed him nominated for the PFA Fans’ Player of the Month prize for the entire division.

Farke made his admiration for Bamford clear in January when he stated: “I am actually completely happy and delighted for Patrick as a result of he had such a tough time. We do not have to talk about two tough years in whole, but in addition this season. I feel he had a extremely good pre-season, was roughly on the sting to start out the primary recreation, first house recreation of the season, then the long run harm, eight weeks out.”

The Englishman additionally appears to be an vital determine within the dressing room at Elland Street primarily based on an remark from Graham Smyth earlier than the FA Cup replay in opposition to Plymouth, when he performed a “trainer” position by calling over younger striker Mateo Joseph and imparting some recommendation through the warm-up. If it is a vital harm, then, Bamford will probably be an enormous miss.