Leeds United vs Crystal Palace, Premier League: live score and latest updates

Leeds have fizzled out. Roberts is often the scapegoat for Leeds fans but his performance today, along with James's is unconvincing. Raphinha seems to have lost his mojo these last two games, too. 

Struijk has treatment on his left knee/calf and comes back on as Meslier chips the free-kick out. Looks like two minutes of injury time will be added. 

Struijk is booked for hacking at the ball and striking Ayew as the two wrestled with their feet for it in the floor. Llorente heads away the free-kick and is fouled when the cross comes back in. 

Struijk is struggling. 

Raphinha takes the free-kick wide on the right, five yards out of the box and hoops it hopelessly beyond the back post and miles too high. 

Gallagher is booked for sliding into Raphinha who doesn't hurdle him but goes down. A minute earlier Gallagher was struck in the throat by Cooper's arm but much to his and Vieira's disgust, the ref waved play on. 

Ward is booked for pulling down James 10 yards inside the Palace half after a hospital pass from Tomkins. Raphinha wastes the free-kick, not even getting it as far as the box. 

Dallas chips a long diagonal into the right side of the box from the touchline. James leaps to cushion it on his toe but can't get a shot away before Tomkins and Guaita snuff his chances out. 

Palace are by far the slicker, more fluent side in attack, pinging the ball around in their attacking third and catching Leeds cold with their movement and runners. Gallagher is causing untold problems and but for a wayward pass or two, they would be ahead. 

 Palace free-kick in their own half. They chip it up to halfway and get another when James wraps his arms and leg around Kouyate. 

Phillips chips a diagonal into the box, hoping Raphinha can spin between Mitchell and Guehi but he can't. Guaita throws it out and Forshaw chops down Gallagher to stop him dribbling down the Palace left. 

Llorente strolls out of defence, makes 40 yards, looks for the one-two with Roberts who completely misplaces the return and triggers a Palace counter that Phillips stops with a foul on 40 yards. 

Meslier comes out of goal and punches the free-kick out for a throw. 

Ayew beats Struijk and fizzes over a cross that Meslier dives to gather before Zaha can punce. 

Phillips robs Kouyate 25 yards out, splits down the right and with Roberts in the middle, James at the back post, opts to shoot, slipping as he did so and barrelling it into the side-netting. 

The left side of Leeds' defence looks wide open and Schlupp is the latest to exploit it, shooting just wide from 25 yards with thunderous power. 

James is ruled offside in a tight call but it made no difference as his attempt to tee up Roberts for a shot was woeful, dragging his pass behind the centre-forward. 

Palace have a good penalty shout when Ayew goes down under  what looks at first like Struijk's shove. He leant on him but did he really push him with both hands? VAR and the referee say no. 

Ayew beats Cooper down the left and whips over the cross that Llorente puts behind, claiming he was fouled. The referee isn't having it, though and points for a corner. 

Raphinha glides down the right, spins Mitchell this way and that then cuts it back to Forshaw in the box. The midfielder turns away from goal, spins 180 degrees then thumps a left-foo daisy-cutter about six inches wide of the left post with the goalie wearing concrete boots and there to be beaten. 

Palace break when Cooper slips but Ayew, when he gets to the 18-yard line, wants to offload to Edouard who hasn't made the right run so has to take on the shot himself and hits it straight at Llorente's feet. 

Excellent move for Leeds and a good chance for Roberts. Dallas plays a one-two with Raphinha, bombs down the outside and whips over a very menacing near-post cross that Roberts ought to at least reach and turn goalwards from six yards but he tries to open his body to side-foot it with his left and misses it completely. 

Raphinha's first corner comes back to him and he controls and shields it adroitly to win another. This one is also whipped to the back post but Palace scramble it away. 

Raphinha does get a shooting chance on his left as the ball breaks to the right of the D.He hits it sweetly but Kouyate manages to get a toe on it and divert it over for a corner. 

Forshaw, Klich and Raphinha are teaming up nicely on the right but haven't been able to get Raphinha on to his left within shooting range so far. Zaha and Edouard switch between the left and the middle. 

Phillips intercepts Guehi's pass and sends James down the left. Once again he cuts infield on to his right foot but shoots again straight at a defender's legs. 

Seconds later Phillips and Gallagher go into a fifty-fifty with gleeful force. Phillips wins it and the two shake hands. 

Leeds break up the left and James cuts in from that flank to get into the box and shoot into Kouyate's shins. Raphinha and James are stationed very wide indeed.  

Zaha is playing on the left and cuts in to tie up with Mitchell. He races towards the 18-yard line and squares it to Schlupp who takes too long over his pass to exploit Ayew's run on the overlap. He has to wait for it and consequently allows Cooper to recover and force him too wide to keep his shot in play. 

Zaha does not take the knee but stands 'tall' while the others do, then kicks off and Klich chases the pass back to Guehi and fouls him. Palace take the free-kick but almost immediately put it out for a Leeds throw and they recycle it across their back four. 

Palace have won the toss and will kick off after the players take the knee, attacking the Gelderd End.  

In the Amazon Prime commentary box. 

Out come the teams - Palace in their barbershop diagonal red and blue stripes, Leeds United in their lilywhite with primrose trim as Marching On Together rings out. 

Leeds chief executive Angus Kinnear has compared calls for an independent regulator in English football and a transfer levy on Premier League clubs to Maoism and the Great Chinese Famine.

They were two of 47 recommendations made by a fan-led review of football governance which was announced last week.

Kinnear supports much of what was included in the review but took exception with two key issues which he said were "as flawed as they are radical".

Writing in his programme notes for Leeds' clash with Crystal Palace, Kinnear said: "Of the 47 recommendations contained in the fan-led review of football governance there was much to applaud.

"Increased supporter consultation, heritage shares, renewed focus for the women's game and improving equality and diversity (among others) will all be met with almost unequivocal support.

"However, the two most significant recommendations are as flawed as they are radical. The first is the demand for independent regulation and the second is an increased transfer levy to redistribute increased funds further down the football pyramid.

"These proposals have been conflated to address the very separate issues of the demise of Bury, the threat of the European Super League and the takeover of Newcastle United.

"Football is a private sector business and has flourished that way. Enforcing upon football a philosophy akin to Maoist collective agriculturalism (which students of 'The Great Leap Forward' will know culminated in the greatest famine in history) will not make the English game fairer, it will kill the competition which is its very lifeblood.

"Teams further down the pyramid do not need their means artificially inflated, they need to live within them.

"As a recently promoted team we were asked by the review what we would have done with increased funds if Premier League teams had been forced to financially contribute to our promotion campaign and the answer (although more eloquently expressed) was, fundamentally, that we would have still blown it on Pawel Cibicki."

Kinnear's quotes have attracted some attention, with Gary Neville suggesting they were hypocritical.

He tweeted: "Anyone remember when Leeds United were in the Championship sweating like crazy over their own financial state if they didn't go up.

"How has it come to this within 12 months? A sorry state of affairs. Surely even Leeds fans don't like these programme notes on the Fan Led Review."

The changes are to bring in a bit of freshness. When you have games every three or four days you have to rotate, bring in some of the guys who have been doing well in training.

The front three doing a lot of hard work out of possession and that's why I made those changes because we will have to run very hard out of possession but also run in behind. 

says Marcelo Bielsa, when interviewed, and syas of Tyler Roberts: "He's the centre-forward today and you always expect the centre-forward to score.  The important thing is even if he doesn't score he contributes so we and his team-mates can score."

And how important are these two home games (tonight and against Brentford on Sunday): "Very important. Very, very important."

Are Michael Owen and Clinton Morrison.  They have so few games they select from the army of freelances. 

Chosen ahead of record signing Rodrigo and Leeds' most promising U-23 Joffy Gelhardt to lead the line against James Tomkins and Marc Guehi.

Leeds United  Meslier; Dallas, Llorente, Cooper, Struijk; Phillips; Raphinha,  Forshaw, Klich, James; Roberts.
Substitutes  Klaesson, Firpo, Rodrigo, Harrison, Gelhardt, Cresswell, Summerville, Shackleton, Jenkins.

Crystal Palace  Guaita; Ward, Tomkins, Guehi, Mitchell; Gallagher, Kouyate, Schlupp; Ayew, Edouard, Zaha.
Substitutes  Butland, Milivojevic, Olise, Eze, Hughes, Clyne, Benteke, Kelly, Riedewald.

Referee Kevin Friend (Leicestershire).

For Leeds Tyler Roberts starts ahead of Jack Harrison, Mateusz Klich instead of Rodrigi and Pascal Struijk for Junior Firpo.

No Christian Benteke for Palace whose place is taken by Odsonne Edouard, Jeffrey Schlupp comes in for Luka Milivojevic and Jordan Ayew replaces Michael Olise. 

Will take place in the 11th minute, his old Leeds shirt number, to mark 10 years since his death. A poignant salute took place at Brighton on Sunday, too, but tonight is the home crowd's chance.

Here's something I wrote about the fifth anniversary:

It was Speed’s formative seven years as a first-team player at Leeds that give most of us who watched his extraordinarily rapid and self-possessed progress a perception of primacy when it comes to reminiscences about him and a certain sense of ownership.

You can read the full piece from 2016 here.  

And welcome to live coverage of Leeds United vs Crystal Palace. Marcelo Bielsa, writing in tonight's programme, concedes that over the last three matches the home side played well against Leicester and, thus, feels only drawing was a missed opportunity; they faded after their best first-half performance of the season against Spurs and lost a game they should at least have drawn and were comprehensively outplayed at Brighton on Saturday evening in the first half but recovered to something approaching parity in the second to rescue a point they probably didn't deserve. "How we recovered in the second half," he writes, "gives us a lot of optimism and hope. We looked more like our usual selves, without managing to unbalance Brighton."

"Unbalancing" is the key principle of Bielsa's attacking strategy and with so many injuries throughout the first third of the season, it is Leeds who have looked unbalanced by playing Daniel James through the middle, any number of midfield combinations before the heartening return of Adam Forshaw after two years out, the failure of Rodrigo and Junior Firpo to find the strides that commanded, by Leeds standards, high fees and Raphinha's tiredness after his international call-ups. But above all it is Patrick Bamford's presence they have missed, not that he was at his best before his injury but his work-rate, nose for the place that will most expose the defence in the penalty area and ability to hang on to the ball, have left Leeds short of quality possession in the final third. 

Bielsa was also forced to address the contention made by Tim Sherwood and Jamie Redknapp that all was not well between the manager and Kalvin Phillips after the England midfielder was hooked at half-time at the Amex. Phillips' status as a Leeds "idol" was "completely deserved", his manager said and insisted his decision to replace him at half-time was for the good of the team.

"That doesn't mean I was correct, but I did what I thought was best," said Bielsa. "But in no way does that mean that there's a difficulty with anyone. "It's never good for a player or for a team to think that the positions are immovable and that the hierarchies that are within a team can't be altered ever."

A freezing but raucous night under the lights at Elland Road should be just what they need to spark this spluttering season but Crystal Palace, especially since the triumph of Patball over Royball will not be easy opponents. The Glaziers/Eagles have lost on all of their previous six visits to Beeston, Wilf Zaha playing in the last three, the first of which was back in 2011. You have to go back 15 years to Jobi McAnuff's winner in 2006 when both were gunning for promotion from the Championship for Palace's last win.

But this Palace side, despite Saturday's set-back, look well-equipped to make life uncomfortable for Leeds, not just with the presence of Conor Gallagher, a player Bielsa wanted but was unable to land. He's shown just how good he is at Palace, a dynamic, all-round modern midfielder who can play as a hybrid six/eight, sitting deep with the ability to scuttle, bionic-crab-like, from touchline to touchline and the drive to go box-to-box to link up with the strikers. Add in the rejuvenated Christian Benteke, an ever-present back four, the ever-electric Zaha and the rich promise of Michael Olise and Eberechi Eze from the bench and you have a side that look a million miles away from the dour rope-a-dopers of last season. 

Both teams need a win but Leeds, eager for a fillip to banish their worst fears, would welcome it with fervour and no small relief.

The kick-off is at 8.15pm  - join us for the team news from 7.15pm.