Advantage Leeds As Woeful Derby Fail To Get A Shot On Target – Match Stats

After a long and difficult season for Leeds United, late disappointment at missing out on the automatic Championship promotion spots had to be put behind us as we prepared to face off against Derby County earlier today in the Play-Off Semi-Final first leg at Pride Park.

With a place at the Wembley based Final at stake, after Spygate and the wibblings of Frank Lampard, the game certainly had extra spice riding on it. Pontus Jansson did miss out though and I’m sure #wheresthewheelchair was trending for a bit pre-game.

Derby started slightly brighter in fairness, but once we got into our groove we dominated in our more usual fashion and although clear cut efforts on target were again rare, Kemar Roofe made his count in the 55th minute to give us the 1-0 advantage. We do now await the severity for Adam Forshaw as we sustain yet another injury in 2018/19.

Derby had a good shout for a penalty late on in the game but the assistant referee convinced Craig Pawson it should be a freekick to us and that was the game.

How Derby are in the Play-Offs is a mystery to me, 95 odd minutes and they didn’t register a single shot on goal.

1-0 and onto the home leg, poor Frank Lampard will be looking for excuses again.

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Derby County				Leeds United
				Roofe (55)
Roos				Casilla
Bogle				Ayling
Tomori				Berardi
Keogh				Cooper
Malone				Dallas
Mount				Phillips
Johnson				Hernandez
Wilson				Forshaw			24
Holmes			70	Klich
Lawrence			86	Harrison
Nugent			64	Roofe			81
Substitutes
Carson				Peacock-Farrell
Jozefzoon				Brown
Marriott			64	Shackleton			24
Evans				Clarke			81
Bennett			70	Struijk
MacDonald				Gotts
Huddlestone			86	Bogusz

Game Statistics
6	Goal attempts	12
0	On Target	3
1	Corners	8
12	Fouls	15
4	Yellow Cards	3
0	Red Cards	0
44	%	56