Leeds United are currently in second place in the English Championship table following seven wins and two draws from their opening 12 league games of the season.

The Elland Road outfit are two points behind West Bromwich Albion, and they will be looking to pick up all three points when they visit Preston North End this evening.

Manager Marcelo Bielsa is set to name an unchanged starting XI following weekend’s 1-0 win over Birmingham City, and some Leeds fans aren’t happy.

With recent reports that Arsenal loanee Eddie Nketiah could seek to leave in January if he keeps struggling for regular playing minutes, many expect the Argentine head coach to start starting the youngster.

The 20-year-old has come off the bench for every one of his eight Championship appearances, with Patrick Bamford Bielsa’s preferred first-choice striker.

The 26-year-old has only scored two more league goals than Nketiah, with the last of his four strikes coming in the 3-0 win over Stoke City in August.

Bamford has drawn blank in his last seven games for Leeds, but he is set to continue starting ahead of the Gunners man.

His work rate brings a lot to the team, and this clip from the Birmingham win says it all:

Patrick Bamford, with his lungs the size of hot air balloons pic.twitter.com/mWTUnIcAEm

— Graham Smyth (@GrahamSmyth) October 22, 2019

Leeds fans have been impressed with that aspect of his game, and some of them reckon it is why he is in Bielsa’s starting XI ahead of Nketiah.

Here is how some of them reacted to the clip on Twitter:

This is why Bamford starts , he's leading every press here

— James Howson (@BigJimmy_V) October 21, 2019

This is what Bamford brings, he’s more than goals.

I’ve got to say his performance and contribution was streets ahead of Eddie giving that PB is up against a fresh defence. He’ll always get judged on goal too of course but we can’t underestimate his overall contribution

— Darren John Young