Whites boss Daniel Farke made ten changes to his team for Saturday’s FA Cup fourth round hosting of Millwall yet fresh injury blows dictated some of those alterations to the side. Watford boss Tom Cleverley has been in a similar boat, the Hornets without key men for Saturday lunchtime’s Championship clash at Sunderland which ended in a 2-2 draw.
Watford and Leeds will now lock horns just three days later in a 7.45pm kick-off under the Vicarage Road lights. With Watford only three points off the play-offs, the game is huge for both sides and here we run through the injury news from both camps. Whites boss Farke and opposite number Cleverley both held their pre-match press conferences on Monday, at which fresh team news was provided. Here, we run through the final team news from both camps.
7. Vakoun Bayo (out - suspended)
Watford's Ivory Coast international Bayo is suspended for Tuesday night's contest as he serves the second match of a three-game ban for his straight red card in last weekend's 1-0 defeat at home to Norwich City. Watford appealed the decision but the Hornets were unsuccessful. Photo: Richard Heathcote
8. Caleb Wiley (out)
USA international left-back Wiley joined Watford on loan for the rest of the season from Chelsea on transfer deadline day having been recalled from his loans spell at Strasbourg but the 20-year-old is recovering from an injury and finishing his rehab with the Blues before linking up with the Hornets. Watford boss Tom Cleverley expects him to be available in around four weeks' time. Photo: Dylan Buell
9. Pierre Dwomoh (out)
Watford's Belgian youth international midfielder Dwomoh suffered a thigh injury in last month's 4-1 defeat at Fulham in the FA Cup third round and the blow was expected to leave the 20-year-old facing two months out. Cleverley has said that Dwomoh is progressing and back on the pitch. Photo: Bradley Collyer
10. Max Wober (out)
A fresh blow for the Whites, Farke revealing at Monday's pre-match press conference that Austrian international defender Wober needed surgery on a troublesome knee issue and was now facing around six weeks out. Wober has struggled with a knee issue for most of the season and the 27-year-old failed to make the matchday squad for the weekend's FA Cup clash against Millwall. Photo: George Wood
11. Patrick Bamford (out)
Whites no 9 Bamford has now missed his side's last eight games with the hamstring injury suffered in the 1-1 draw at home to Blackburn Rovers on New Year's Day. Whites boss Daniel Farke said ahead of the weekend's FA Cup clash against Millwall that he was hoping Bamford would be back in training at some stage next week but the striker is still yet to return. "Not yet because tomorrow the game we're focused on it," said Farke. "It depends how the next days will develop. He's not back yet and will not return before this Watford game, we'll see how it develops in the next days." Photo: George Wood
12. Yasser Larouci (doubt)
One of two new doubts, Watford boss Cleverley revealing that Algerian international left back Larouci was one of two players affected by a sickness bug in the Hornets camp. Cleverley, though, hopes the 24-year-old will be available to face the Whites. Photo: George Wood