Leeds Stumble In Forest Clash, But It’s Nothing To Panic About – Match Stats

With Leeds United enjoying a busy summer transfer window, even if most deals were of an outward bound, once Thursday’s deadline was over it was all eyes to Saturday’s Elland Road based clash against Nottingham Forest.

Manager Marcelo Bielsa selected an unchanged side for the game following our opening Championship win of 2019/20 against Bristol City, and as has become usual under the Argentine gaffer, we utterly dominated possession and chances on the day – but we still weren’t as clinical as we’d have liked – waiting until the 59th minute before a nice move saw the ever reliable Pablo Hernandez sweep through the middle of their defence to open the scoring and give us the advantage.

With the game drawing to a close, Forest did scramble an equaliser from a corner and although in some ways they were fortunate, I doubt very much that our gaffer will be pleased with the way we defended it.

1-1 was how it finished with Patrick Bamford hitting the bar, and with us also not benefiting from a decent penalty shout.

Onto the next one, four from six in the opening two is decent enough for me.

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Leeds United				Nottingham Forest
Hernandez (59)				Grabban (77)
Casilla				Muric
Dallas				Cash
White				Dawson
Cooper				Worrall
Douglas				Robinson
Phillips				Watson			72
Hernandez				Adomah			64
Forshaw				Maia Silva			57
Klich			80	Semedo Esteves
Harrison			73	Lolley
Bamford				Grabban
Substitutes
Meslier				Oliveira Ribeiro
Alioski			73	Pereira Figueiredo
Helder Costa			80	Mir Vicente			72
Berardi				Jenkinson
Bogusz				Ameobi			64
Shackleton				Sow			57
Clarke				Samba

Game Statistics
14	Goal attempts	6
4	On Target	1
10	Corners	3
12	Fouls	12
2	Yellow Cards	2
0	Red Cards	0
68	%	32