It was only five weeks ago when the Railwaymen locked horns in the live Sky game agaist Leeds United which the Alex lost 1-0. Since then a few things have changed at Elland Road and one of them was the departure of Dennis Wise who joined Kevin Keegans revolution at Newcastle United.
After Wise's departure the board moved swiftly and chose former player Gary McAllister who played for the club in the mid 90's.
Leeds go in to the game with no win in the last six games and have only won once out of the last five home games and that was against Northampton Town, ironiclly Leeds last win in the league was against the Railwaymen.
Crewe on the other have will be looking to build on the 1-0 away win at Leyton Orient the other week as they look to pull away from the relegation zone.
Crewe Team News.
Crewe look set to give new loan signing and former player Kenny Lunt a start. Ben rix is now rules out for the rest of the season after he failed to shrug off an injury prior to his operation which is next week.
Club Captain Neil Cox is ruled for six weeks after having a shoulder operation. Julien Baudet, Byron Moore and Nicky Maynard will have late fitness tests to see if they will feature all of them are rated 50/50 after suffering injuries.
Leeds United Team News.
United have leading scorer Jermaine Beckford suspended and this because of the Doncaster game being called off last week pushing his suspension to the next avaliable league game.
Andrew Hughes and former Port Vale striker Leon Constantine are ruled out but loan signing from Birmingham City Neil Kilkenny is now fit after recovering from an ankle injury.
Head to Head....
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