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Summerville
Leeds United
Coventry City
Elland Road
36,700
Geoff Eltringham

There were ugly scenes upon the final whistle at Elland Road on as tempers frayed and frustration turned to anger, after Leeds failed to hold on to Crysencio Summerville's 58th minutes lead, and close the ten point gap between themselves and Ipswich Town in second place.

Coventry were content to park the bus, get ten men behind the ball, and kick seven shades of you know what, out of their opponents. To their credit, they had a game plan, and stuck to it. It may have been as aesthetically pleasing as Nottingham Forest Manager Steve Cooper at a beauty contest, but it was effective, and the perfect tonic to Leeds free flowing football.

When Leeds finally broke the deadlock on the hour mark (after a sublime finish by Summerville), it looked like they would be heading towards their eighth consecutive home win of the season; a feat last achieved nearly thirty-three years ago, but the Sky Blues had other ideas. Although rarely venturing out of their own half, when they did, they were afforded free reign at goal, and with twenty-five minutes left on the clock, Bobby Thomas equalised.

By this time, Leeds reeked of desperation, and even with six forwards on the pitch, were unable to inflict much damage on a Coventry side content to hack the ball (or anyone else in their vicinity) out of their way.

Line Up
Nat
Match Events
1
Meslier, Illan
Goalkeeper
France
22
Gray, Archie
Midfielder
England
14
Rodon, Joe
Defender
Wales
21
Struijk, Pascal
Defender
Netherlands
39
Spence, Djed
Defender
England
4
Ampadu, Ethan
Midfielder
Wales
8
Kamara, Glen
Midfielder
Finland
20
James, Daniel
Midfielder
Wales
7
Piroe, Joel
Forward
Netherlands
10
Summerville, Crysencio
Midfielder
Netherlands
24
Rutter, Georginio
Forward
France
Subs
Nat
Match Events
29
Gnonto, Wilfried
Midfielder
Italy
9
Bamford, Patrick
Forward
England
30
Gelhardt, Joe
Forward
England
2
Ayling, Luke
Defender
England
Unused Sub
6
Cooper, Liam
Defender
Scotland
Unused Sub
12
Anthony, Jaidon
Midfielder
England
Unused Sub
26
Darlow, Karl
Goalkeeper
England
Unused Sub
44
Gruev, Ilia
Midfielder
Bulgaria
Unused Sub
49
Joseph, Mateo
Forward
Spain
Unused Sub
References
LEEDSTATS: Leeds United Season 2023/2024
Sheridan Dictates: Season Statistics 2023-24
Leeds United Programme Guide: Season 2023/24
Sunderland 1-0 Leeds United (12th Dec 2023)


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Overman wrote on 19 Dec 2023 12:00 pm

James really has to finish there. Archie along with Struijk have to deal with that, it's standard stuff. Looking ahead, let's have an orthodox rb in place and Piroe as the all out striker. He's being wasted at the moment and most probably impacting his confidence.

The Subhuman wrote on 19 Dec 2023 11:59 am

I'm also not sure why an outfield player cab get a second yellow for time wasting and be sent off but a keeper can't

The Subhuman wrote on 19 Dec 2023 11:57 am

1964white wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:46 am Coventry foul count

2m James (Bidwell)
3m Summerville (Thomas)
4m Gray (Dasilva)
28m Summerville (Sheaf) :booked:
31m Kamara (?????)
43m Rutter (Eccles)
48m Summerville (Eccles) :booked:
51m Gray (Bidwell)
53m Gray off the pitch due to injury through foul play allowed back on 45 seconds (not 30 seconds).
54m Rutter (Sacamoto)
57m Kamara (Sacamoto)
63m Struijk (Simms) :booked:
82m Collins (keeper) booked for time-wasting :booked: & then continued to run down the clock.
88m Gnonto (Palmer)
88m Gnonto (Palmer) :booked:
90m Gnonto (Palmer) again....three times in two minutes.
98m Palmer or Thomas in fracas with Summerville after the final whistle was blown.
17 opportunities to raid their goal, gone. IIRC some of those cancelled out our fast break, it's cheating and the ref helped ... and people don't think refs can affect games

1964white wrote on 19 Dec 2023 11:46 am

Coventry foul count

2m James (Bidwell)
3m Summerville (Thomas)
4m Gray (Dasilva)
28m Summerville (Sheaf) :booked:
31m Kamara (?????)
43m Rutter (Eccles)
48m Summerville (Eccles) :booked:
51m Gray (Bidwell)
53m Gray off the pitch due to injury through foul play allowed back on 45 seconds (not 30 seconds).
54m Rutter (Sacamoto)
57m Kamara (Sacamoto)
63m Struijk (Simms) :booked:
82m Collins (keeper) booked for time-wasting :booked: & then continued to run down the clock.
88m Gnonto (Palmer)
88m Gnonto (Palmer) :booked:
90m Gnonto (Palmer) again....three times in two minutes.
98m Palmer or Thomas in fracas with Summerville after the final whistle was blown.

Kennyb41 wrote on 19 Dec 2023 09:08 am


Reet, he did miss a sitter bang on 1m59secs, if you freeze it, you'll see 9 Leeds players in the frame, you'll also see 9 Coventry.

It was a good game of 'football' from us, freezeframe it all the way thru the highlights and check out individually where each of our players are, it's interesting the positions each are taking up, some days like Huddersfield all your good play finds the back of the net 4 times, on this occasion it didn't, it's football fer Christs sake, and why i bang on about luck, look at the Coventry defender banging the ground in delight in got a touch on the ball which prevented DJ from scoring.

Fine margins, we are not playing badly ffs, and we WILL be prone to concede the breakaway goal coz so many players will be backtracking, but wtf do you want ? None of our fckers attacking ???

Heidi, if you read this, do you remember it now/ It was right at the end?