Manager Daniel Farke rates Ampadu’s chances of playing again this season as 50-50, with the hope the rehabilitation he is doing will pay off. The German does not expect to see his skipper back in training before next month’s international break and has indicated he may not be be back before April.

Those wins have left Leeds five points clear at the top of the division but Ampadu has warned that a test “no different” to Sheffield United and Sunderland now presents itself with Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off against fifth-placed West Brom.

United are planning to commemorate the life of Leslie Bray, the club’s oldest season ticket holder, who sadly passed away aged 99 recently. Leslie had held a season ticket for more than 50 years and went viral online last season.