Category: Leeds United

West Bromwich Albion 1 Leeds United 0 – HT 1-0

Diangana (37)

Friday was not a good night, with Leeds losing to one of their closest rivals for promotion.

Grady Diangana’s goal saw West Bromwich move within three points of fourth-placed Leeds in the Championship with a 1-0 win over the Yorkshire side at The Hawthorns.

The DR Congo midfielder struck in the first half of a tight, breathless affair against a Leeds side who now have just one win in their past five games.

Whites manager Daniel Farke switched to three at the back on the hour mark in a bid to prise open a determined Baggies defence but, despite a late siege of the opposition goal, they could find no way through.

The home side could have won by more as Djed Spence kicked a Cedric Kipre shot off the line, although Leeds were denied a strong penalty claim when Kipre appeared to pull down Willy Gnonto as he shaped to shoot inside the box.

Both sides have been in stuttering form in December, but West Brom’s 1-0 win over Norwich on Tuesday hinted at their improvement, while Leeds fell to defeat at Preston as they watched the top three of Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton start to move further clear of them.

As mentioned above, December as not been a great month for Leeds, and we need to pick up in the New Year, as were now 9 points behind Ipswich who are in 2nd place for the automatic promotion spot.

Marching On Together

League position 4th after 25 games

Blackburn Rovers 0 Leeds United 2 – HT – 0-1

James (27), Summerville (75)

Assists

Daniel James grabbed his third goal in three games as in-form Leeds United made it six Championship wins from seven with a clinical performance against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.

James drilled a fine low shot beyond keeper Leopold Wahlstedt and into the corner to put the visitors ahead after an uneventful first half.

Rovers, who have now lost six league games at home already this season, improved after the break and started to create chances, notably when Hayden Carter headed over.

But the impressive Crysencio Summerville wrapped up a victory that closes the gap on second-placed Ipswich to four points, before the afternoon kick-offs, with a clever, chipped finish as he ran through on goal.

This is great run of form by Leeds, hopefully they can keep it up in this busy month of December, especially around the Christmas and New Year crazy run of fixtures.

Marching On Together 

League position 3rd after 20 games

Leicester City 0 Leeds United 1 HT 0-0

Rutter (58)

This was a massive win on Friday night over the championship leader, great way to start the weekend!!

Leeds United ended Leicester City’s nine-game winning run in the Championship with an impressive victory at the King Power Stadium.

Joel Piroe went close in the opening moments for Leeds while Leicester’s Abdul Fatawu hit the bar 11 minutes before half-time in a tight first half.

Leeds were the better side after the break and took a deserved lead when Georginio Rutter converted from close range after Sam Byram’s header from a corner was palmed away by Mads Hermansen.

Substitute Kelechi Iheanacho had a late effort blocked for the Foxes before Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s stoppage-time header forced a superb first save from Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier.

Leeds, who came down from the Premier League with the Foxes last season, cut the gap between the two relegated sides to 11 points and consolidated third place in the table.

Hopefully we can continue the form and results now to push for one of the two automatic promotion spots.

Marching On Together.

League position 3rd after 15 games

Leeds United 1 Queens Park Rangers 0 – HT 1-0

Summerville (9′)

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Rutter (9′)

The last 5 games have seen a good run of results, which we have need to make sure Leicester and Ipswich don’t run away from us.

Leeds United moved up to sixth place in the Championship as they edged past struggling Queens Park Rangers at Elland Road.

Crysencio Summerville’s cool finish gave Leeds an early lead as the hosts dominated the first half against the goal-shy R’s.

Both sides found it hard to create any decent chances until the final 15 minutes when Patrick Bamford had a shot saved while Pascal Struijk also went close.

Rangers could have salvaged a point with three minutes left but Illan Meslier saved a point-blank effort from Lyndon Dykes with his chest.

The night got worse for QPR in stoppage time when goalkeeper Asmir Begovic was sent off for a tackle on Bamford as he went through on the edge of the box – although replays showed Begovic did not make contact with the striker.

Summerville’s first goal since the opening day of the season came after some good work down the left by Georginio Rutter to set up the Dutchman, whose neat touch took him round his marker before he found the bottom corner.

Again were struggling to score, with Bamford yet to score this season.

Hopefully we can carry on with the positive results and close the gap on Leicester and Ipswich

League position 6th after 10 games

Leeds United 0 Sheffield Wednesday 0 – HT 0-0

Sheffield Wednesday finally ended their wait for a Championship point on their return to the second-tier, frustrating Yorkshire rivals Leeds in an Elland Road stalemate.

Daniel Farke’s side have not quite hit their straps either so far this season, but had umpteen chances to pick up just a second win against a gutsy Wednesday.

August signing Joel Piroe almost added to his Leeds tally but dragged an effort wide, as Leeds looked to stamp their authority on the game.

Devis Vasquez in the Owls goal made a crucial save from Georginio Rutter, while Crysencio Summerville caused problems with his dynamic running, and Wilfried Gnonto was also denied a penalty.

Leeds were able to give debuts to new signings Djed Spence and Glen Kamara but the same problems remain up top.

Leeds moored in mid-table, while Wednesday are second bottom, kept off only by Middlesbrough’s struggles.

Not the start we wanted to the season, as I said we need to get back up this season, otherwise, no idea when we will.

The problem again, not able to score goals.

League position 15th after 5 games

Leeds United 2             Cardiff City 2 – HT 0-2

Cooper (49)                  Bowler (23)

Summerville (90+5)    Ugbo (39)

Assists

Summerville (49)        Ugbo (23)

Still earlier August and the football season is under way, crazy.

First game back in the championship and under a new manager. Let’s hope we can get straight back up. Come on Leeds. Marching on Together.

Leeds United made a dramatic return to the Championship as new manager Daniel Farke saw Crysencio Summerville’s added-time equaliser cap a fightback from 2-0 down to draw with Cardiff City.

The Bluebirds, also under the guidance of a new boss in Erol Bulut, had to withstand heavy Leeds pressure but clinical counter-attacking goals by debutants Josh Bowler and Ike Ugbo had given the visitors a convincing half-time lead.

A towering header by Leeds captain Liam Cooper early in the second half fuelled a resurgence from the dominant hosts, who missed several chances.

Just as it looked like Cardiff would cling on for a memorable victory, Summerville finished superbly five minutes into time added on to spark jubilant celebrations at Elland Road.

A point was the least Leeds deserved. The statistics told the story of their supremacy: 72% possession, 25 shots to Cardiff’s seven and six on target compared to their opponents’ two.

Farke’s first Leeds line-up featured only three players who began the club’s final Premier League game in May – Cooper, Luke Ayling, and Pascal Struijk – after an off-season which featured more departures than arrivals.

Of the three new faces to come in, only Ethan Ampadu, a £7m acquisition from Chelsea, started this match, though there was a full debut for teenager Archie Gray while Daniel James was back on the left wing having been on loan at Fulham last season.

Well hopefully this new team can get us back in the premiership, otherwise it will be many years before we do.

League position 11th after 1 game

Leeds United have appointed former Norwich City boss Daniel Farke as their manager on a four-year deal.

The 46-year-old German spent four years with the Canaries and twice led them to promotion to the Premier League.

Farke spent last season with Bundesliga side Borussia Monchengladbach but was sacked after they finished 10th.

Well I hope he can lead us straight back, as we should be in the premiership.

Another player of the great Don Revie 1970 team, Gordon McQueen passed away today.

He was a tough centre back and had a great partnership with Norman Hunter.

What we could have done with a pair like them this season, no way would we have conceded over 70 goals.

Talking of 70, he was only 70 himself, far too young to pass away. RIP.

Another unfortunate record for Leeds, as Sam Allardyce as left the club and takes the record for the shortest manager rein in the premiership.

We actually now have 1^st and 3^rd place for shortest premiership manager reins, which is pretty poor, considering the few seasons we have been in the premiership.

This in a season of record number of managers in the premiership.

Leeds United 1  Tottenham Hotspur 4  HT 0-1

Harrison (67)      Kane (2, 69), Porro (47), Lucas Moura (90’+5)

Assists –

Rutter (67)          Son Heung-min (2), Porro (69), Sarr (90’+5)

Well the so called magic of Big Sam couldn’t save us from relegation. 

Leeds United were relegated from the Premier League as they lost their final game of the season to Tottenham Hotspur.

The Whites’ fans turned on both their team and the club’s owners as the West Yorkshire side’s three-year top-flight stay came to a meek and pitiful end at Elland Road.

Needing to win to stand any chance of preserving their Premier League status, Leeds trailed inside the opening two minutes through Harry Kane’s excellent finish.

Pedro Porro then doubled Tottenham’s lead when he fired in from a tight angle early in the second half.

Jack Harrison made it 2-1 to give Leeds brief hope of pulling off an unlikely escape, but Kane’s 30th league goal of the season restored Spurs’ two-goal advantage.

Lucas Moura marked his farewell appearance by scoring a fine solo goal in injury time, although Tottenham’s first top-flight win outside London since October was not enough to prevent them missing out on European qualification for the first time since they finished eighth in 2008-09.

For Leeds, however, the damage is far worse. I couldn’t agree more.

Overall I think we deserved to go down, we just couldn’t score and the form in April, we just leaked goal after goal and became the 1^st team in premiership history to concede over 70 goals in consecutive seasons.

I just hope it doesn’t take several seasons to get promoted after last time we were relegated from the premiership.

League position 19th after 38 games – After 38 games last season, Leeds were 17th.