Following on from the disappointing defeat to Leicester City on Monday evening, Leeds United were back in Premier League action today at familiar Selhurst Park, looking for victory over defensively sound and organised Crystal Palace.
This was never going to be an easy game as their plan is nick a goal then sit on the goalline.
The hosts certainty started the brighter and unfortunately for us they got their noses ahead 12 minutes in, so as they sat back we started to have the better of the ball and started putting them under better pressure.
Five minutes later we made that pressure count but somehow VAR decided Patrick Bamford’s hair was offside despite him clearly looking level, so we had to do it again. Such a bizarre decision, it did appear to knock us as Palace went down the other end, won a cheap freekick and made it 2-0.
We broke through again though and Bamford made it count in minute 27 and the comeback was on – I was not expecting a game this open.
Palace were on top though and there’s no point in denying it, they looked more threatening every time they went forward and minutes before the break it was an uphill struggle again as they made it 3-1 with Helder Costa credited with an own goal.
Second half was a similar pattern to the first, but Palace dug in slightly more as we pushed forward. With 20 minutes left on the clock, they made it four and you just couldn’t see a comeback of that size happening.
It didn’t, disappointing but onto the next one.
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Selhurst Park
Premier League
7/11/2020 4:00 pm
Attendance: 0
Referee: Chris Kavanagh
| Crystal Palace | Leeds United | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dann (12), Eze (22), Helder Costa (og 42), Ayew (70) | Bamford (27) | ||||||
| Guaita | Meslier | ||||||
| Clyne | Ayling | ||||||
| Kouyate | Cooper | ||||||
| Dann | Koch | ||||||
| van Aanholt | Dallas | ||||||
| Townsend | 71 | Struijk | 71 | ||||
| Riedewald | 77 | Klich | |||||
| McArthur | Alioski | ||||||
| Eze | Bamford | ||||||
| Ayew | 85 | Harrison | |||||
| Zaha | Helder Costa | 45 | |||||
Substitutes |
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| Butland | Poveda | ||||||
| Sakho | Roberts | 71 | |||||
| Schlupp | 71 | Casilla | |||||
| Benteke | 85 | Dias Belloli | 45 | ||||
| McCarthy | 77 | Davis | |||||
| Batshuayi | Jenkins | ||||||
| Cahill | Casey | ||||||
Game Statistics |
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| 10 | Goal attempts | 9 |
| 6 | On Target | 3 |
| 3 | Corners | 6 |
| 9 | Fouls | 16 |
| 0 | Yellow Cards | 2 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 35 | % | 65 |