(Credit: Manh Tung, Hasan Karim - Breaking Media)

Edward Bazeley

Mon 18 August 2025 8:38, UK

Daniel Farke is set to name his first lineup of the Premier League season when Leeds host Everton on Monday.

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The Whites are vying to become the second newly promoted team to earn victory in the top flight this term, after Sunderland thrashed West Ham on Saturday, 16 August.

Farke has been busy in the transfer market to prepare the Elland Road club for life in the Premier League after winning the Championship last season.

Amid their survival aspirations, Leeds have signed former Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who scored 71 goals for the Toffees.

Farke is set to name his first Premier League lineup of the season (Credit: Hasan Karim – Breaking Media)

Farke’s defensive options have been limited by the fact that new signing Jaka Bijol is suspended after picking up a red card in his last match for his former club Udinese.

Furthermore, Jayden Bogle is recovering from a hip-flexor problem, whereas Sebastiaan Bornauw has not featured for Leeds since their pre-season clash with Manchester United last month, thanks to injury problems.

Consequently, Farke is likely to select Joe Rodon and Pascal Struijk as his centre-back partnership, with Isaac Schmidt featuring at right-back.

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Elsewhere, summer signing Anton Stach should be in line to make his Premier League debut in midfield, while Joel Piroe could start up front, with the fixture on 18 August likely arriving too soon for fresh recruit Calvert-Lewin to make his first start.

Football Insider verdict

Leeds predicted XI

On Saturday, Sunderland proved what a newly promoted team can produce in the Premier League in front of a boisterous, partisan crowd.

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The Elland Road faithful are capable of producing the same atmosphere as that of the Stadium of Light on Monday, which could help Farke’s men over the line against Everton.

Furthermore, Leeds should back themselves to produce the goods against a Toffees side who seemed destined for a relegation battle before David Moyes returned to Merseyside last January.

Everton have not secured a top-half spot in the Premier League since 2021 and present themselves as an opponent who a newly promoted club are capable of beating, particularly at home.

The West Yorkshire side need summer signings like Stach to show what they can do in the top flight of English football, as well as relying on some of last season’s favourites such as Dan James.

Meanwhile, Bogle has been backed to be named on the bench against Everton in an MOT Leeds News exclusive.

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