Leeds United academy coach talks up Tyler Denton.
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Leeds United academy coach Jason Blunt has praised youngster Tyler Denton and backed him to soon be challenging for a first team spot.
Denton scored for the first team in the EFL Cup earlier this season, his one and only appearance.
He was denied further chances due to a knee injury, and has gone back to playing for the under-23 team.
He featured in the 3-2 win over Huddersfield on Monday, in which Marcus Antonsson scored a hat-trick and Alex Mowatt also started.
Marcus Antonsson of Leeds United in action
Speaking to BBC Radio Leeds, Blunt talked up the 21-year-old left-back.
He said: “Tyler has been in and out and his attitude has been great. To get Tyler back, he’s an under-21 now, but he spends most of his time with the first team.
“It’s good for him to get some minutes and hopefully he can kick on and he can start to push Charlie [Taylor] for a bit of opposition on the left-hand side.”
Charlie Taylor broke into the first team in 2015 after Stephen Warnock was controversially sold to Derby County.
He stepped in and never looked back, and Denton could soon find himself put in the same situation.
Taylor’s contract runs out at the end of the season and Leeds are seemingly no closer to extending his contract.
Denton has shown in his brief spell in the first team that he is worthy of a chance, and now he is fit again he is a contender to get more minutes, with Leeds heading into a fixture-heavy part of the season.
Leeds United’s Charlie Taylor
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