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Leeds United boss Thomas Christiansen provides injury update on trio

Leeds United manager, Thomas Christiansen will have to sort out his defensive crisis ahead of their Carabao Cup clash against Burnley.

Pontus Jansson limped out of Saturday’s 1-0 defeat against Millwall, while Liam Cooper and Matthew Pennington had already missed out Leeds’ trip to the Den.

Christiansen has offered positive update, saying Cooper is “doing well”, and Jansson’s injury is “nothing really important”. He added that Pennington trained for the first time with the squad.

“Liam is doing very well,” he said to Leeds’ official Facebook account on Monday. “Pontus it’s nothing really important and Matthew Pennington trained for the first time with the whole squad today so it’s positive.