Leeds Nicely Bounce Back Against Burnley – Match Stats

After one of the strangest years, and Christmas Days, many of us will have experienced, Leeds United had Elland Road comforts for our festive fixture clash with Sean Dyche’s Burnley side today.

It wasn’t a great game really, but we’d have all watched worse and the main thing for us was in drawing a line under the heavy defeat to the Mancs in our last match, and in keeping a clean sheet across the 90 minutes with Patrick Bamford’s early five minute penalty effort – 1-0 was more than enough to get us back to winning ways and keep the pressure off when it comes to the battle at the bottom of the table.

Burnley had their chances, and slightly more efforts than we did across the game, but ultimately we were relatively comfortable and Illan Meslier didn’t have an awful lot to do, and after the last heavy defeat, playing in that manner with a pretty confident showing was the big bonus.

Onto West Bromwich Albion now and a very winnable game from our perspective.

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Leeds United				Burnley
Bamford (5)
Meslier				Pope
Dallas				Lowton
Ayling				Tarkowski
Struijk				Mee
Alioski				Taylor
Phillips				Benson			74
Dias Belloli			70	Brownhill
Klich			66	Westwood
Rodrigo			59	Pieters			74
Harrison				Wood
Bamford				Barnes
Substitutes
Poveda			70	Peacock-Farrell
Roberts				Stephens			74
Casilla				Rodriguez			74
Helder Costa				Norris
Hernandez			59	Bardsley
Davis				Long
Shackleton			66	Dunne
Jenkins				Mancini
Casey				Mumbongo

Game Statistics
11	Goal attempts	14
4	On Target	6
4	Corners	12
8	Fouls	13
0	Yellow Cards	3
0	Red Cards	0
52	%	48