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da betcris： Yorkshire Evening Post journalist Phil Hay says Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa will be looking for two things following the news that Kemar Roofe has suffered a knee ligament injury.
What’s the word, then?
Well, the Whites’ top goalscorer this season sustained the injury in the 2-1 win against Swansea City at Elland Road last weekend, which has since been confirmed to be a knee issue.
Hay wrote in the Yorkshire Evening Post that the indications from the Yorkshire outfit are that the 26-year-old will be out for weeks rather than months, which suggests he should still play some part in their run-in.
In the meantime however, Bielsa has to find a solution to the key man’s absence, with winger Jack Clarke also currently sidelined having collapsed on the substitutes’ bench during the 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium earlier this month.
That is something that hasn’t escaped Hay’s attention, as he wrote: “Without him [Roofe], Bielsa is left looking for two things: an alternative number 10 and sharp finishing from Bamford.”
Will the Argentine get things sorted?
He should do, yes.
The experienced coach has had to deal with injury after injury and suspension after suspension to some of his most important Leeds players this season, yet they are still third in the Championship standings.
Bielsa will be confident that he can get Bamford on the goal trail in the coming weeks given what he has shown at this level before and in recent weeks for the Whites, and he certainly needs the 25-year-old to step things up in front of goal, with Roofe having twice as many efforts at goal as he did against the Swans.
Meanwhile, in Tyler Roberts, Pablo Hernandez and even Mateusz Klich he has the alternative No.10 options available, and with the right work on the training pitch United will be just fine without an important star – as they have been on so many other occasions this term.