Leeds United line-up vs Millwall with starter axed as Solomon and Joseph push

When you are unbeaten in eight matches and four days on from a very comfortable home win, it’s very hard to justify too many changes for Leeds United on Wednesday night. Daniel Farke takes his side to Millwall and The Den for one of those fixtures you mark out on the calendar.

Regardless of how each club may be performing, this is a venue and meeting which us steeped in animosity and hostility. Millwall’s home faithful are desperate to get stuck into every visiting team and their fans, and they know the Whites will always bring a sell-out following with them.

When you add in the floodlights and the outstanding recent form of each team, this has the potential to be a second consecutive fireworks night for the spectators. Even if Jayden Bogle were not returning from suspension, I would feel uneasy about starting Sam Byram in a second match across four days.

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When you then consider Bogle, who has improved markedly in recent weeks, is now available for selection, having rested up over the weekend, it’s a very easy decision. The former Sheffield United right-back starts on that side and restores the back five to arguably its strongest possible configuration.

That feels important in what could be one of the hardest away games of the season. Further forward, it’s hard to push through any other changes. There are neither fringe options sticking their hands up nor starters failing to perform.

Manor Solomon and Mateo Joseph are good enough to start in this team, but where do you shoehorn them in? Daniel James took another step forward on Saturday, while Wilfried Gnonto has been the team’s best attacker since the opening day of the season.

Joel Piroe, who is no stranger to criticism in this correspondent’s copy, markedly improved on his Ashton Gate turn in Saturday’s win. The opposition may have been poor, but the Dutchman would have taken a big boost from his poached finish and divine control that led to Brenden Aaronson’s strike.

Josuha Guilavogui was commanding in his cameo on Saturday, but he has a long way to go with his match fitness and the current starters, Ao Tanaka and Joe Rothwell, would have to significantly drop their level to even entertain such a rotation.

Beren’s XI: Meslier; Bogle, Rodon, Struijk, Firpo; Tanaka, Rothwell; James, Aaronson, Gnonto; Piroe.