Award-winning Alioski hoping for more goals

The Macedonia international – Leeds’s summer signing from Lugano – sealed a 2-0 win at the City Ground with a low, 20-yard strike on 87 minutes, his first goal for the Elland Road club.

The effort rounded off an outstanding first month in which Leeds went seven games unbeaten and finished August inside the Championship’s top three.

Alioski said: “I’m delighted to receive the award, especially as this was my first month in English football.

“However, we are a team at Leeds United and scoring the goal would not be possible without the hard work and dedication from my team-mates. I hope to score many more goals for Leeds, but this goal and this award is very special.”

Meanwhile, Sky Sports has announced that it will televise Leeds’s visit to Cardiff City on Tuesday, September 26.

This fixture has taken on sudden significance with United at the top of the table and Cardiff a point behind in second.

Millwall striker Lee Gregory will miss tomorrow’s clash with Leeds after having an appeal against his midweek red card rejected.

The forward was sent off during Millwall’s 2-2 draw with Queens Park Rangers on Tuesday and saw an attempt to overturn the decision turned down by the Football Association yesterday. Gregory will now serve a three-match ban.

Goalkeeper Tom Heaton has had surgery on a shoulder injury and is expected to be out “for months”, Burnley manager Sean Dyche has announced.

The 31-year-old, capped three times by England, suffered the injury after landing awkwardly during the first half of the Clarets’ 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace last weekend and went under the knife on Wednesday.

Dyche had said after the game he suspected Heaton would be missing for a number of months and, asked whether that would be the case at a press conference yesterday, he replied: “Yes, It won’t be weeks, it will be a longer period.”

With Paul Robinson having retired in the summer, free agent Anders Lindegaard has also been on trial this week as Dyche looks to add experience.