Piroe can benefit from slipping down the pecking order

Leeds United's Joel Piroe has gone from Golden Boot winner and first-choice striker to an option off the bench but an ex-Whites attacker has told him how to benefit from the change.

- by Graham Smyth

Last season Piroe did not start the campaign as Daniel Farke's number 9 because youngster Mateo Joseph hit the ground running so well in preseason and duly got the nod up top.

But when goals did not flow for the Spaniard, Piroe's reliability in front of the net made a change more and more inevitable.

Once Piroe wrestled back the starting striker role he very rarely let it slip from his grasp again during the 2024/25 season.