Wolves go to Leeds United on Saturday with Rob Edwards still deciding whether to risk Matt Doherty, while Yerson Mosquera is ruled out for the next two games after collecting his tenth yellow card of the season last Friday. Sam Johnstone remains out, leaving Edwards to weigh up whether Doherty, who has trained this week and is pushing for a return to fitness, can be involved at Elland Road.
Leeds, meanwhile, will name the same group of players that won at Manchester United on Monday, when Noah Okafor scored twice in the first half. Daniel Farke cannot call on Joe Rodon, Dan James or Anton Stach, with Rodon sidelined by an ankle ligament injury, James out with an adductor strain and Stach not expected back until May after an ankle injury picked up against West Ham United in the Emirates FA Cup at the start of the month.
That Monday victory gave Leeds a lift few expected this late in the season. The result moved them six points clear of the relegation zone with six matches left, and it came only days after they beat West Ham on penalties to reach their first FA Cup semi-final since 1987. For Farke, the task now is to keep that momentum going at home, where Leeds are winless in three Premier League matches.
The recent Elland Road record is a reminder that the job is not finished. Leeds drew 0-0 with Brentford in their last Premier League home match and narrowly lost 1-0 to Manchester City and Sunderland in the two before that, so Saturday carries a different kind of pressure from the celebrations at Old Trafford.
Wolves arrive with a mixed picture of their own. They beat Aston Villa and Liverpool at Molineux in recent months and drew at Brentford before the break, when Adam Armstrong and Tolu Arokodare scored, but they were then heavily beaten by West Ham in their most recent match. The bigger problem remains their away form: they have not won a Premier League game on the road this season.
There is history too. Wolves won 4-0 at Elland Road in March of the 2017/18 season, with Romain Saiss and Willy Boly scoring from Barry Douglas corners, Diogo Jota hitting the crossbar and Benik Afobe finding the net from distance against Bailey Peacock-Farrell. This meeting is different in tone and in stakes, but both sides still know what is at stake in the final stretch. Edwards said of Doherty's situation that he is “weighing up the risk,” and Leeds head into another test with the same players who just stunned Manchester United. How each side handles the next 90 minutes may say more than the form guide does.
