Farke remains cautious over striker but adds more game time to the mix

Leeds United boss Daniel Farke has urged caution over the expectations placed on Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

- by Graham Smyth

Speaking ahead of today's trip to Craven Cottage to face Fulham, Farke admitted there were question marks over two of his three senior strikers.

Lukas Nmecha and Joel Piroe both took knocks in training this week, the former to his foot and the latter to his calf, and Farke and his medical team are due to make late decisions on the pair depending on how their bodies react.

The German is known to prefer a player to be able to take part in the final training session ahead of a game before he will happily put them in the starting lineup.

And the doubt over Nmecha and Piroe makes it a possibility at least that Calvert-Lewin could get his first start of the season.

The former Everton frontman was a relatively late addition to Farke's squad, arriving long after the training camp in Germany and just days before the start of the campaign.