Leeds United head coach Garry Monk says mistakes cost them as they went down to a 1-0 defeat at Reading.
Leeds lost to a first half strike from Yann Kermogant following a poor clearance from Charlie Taylor who had found himself out of position at a Reading throw in and Monk felt the side made too many mistakes in the first half.
‘First half we made too many mistakes, uncharacteristically. We felt really comfortable defending against them,” Monk told BBC Radio Leeds.
‘But then we made four or five mistakes in that first half which really gave them their opportunities. Unfortunately, they took one of them off a mistake from us.
‘We made it into a game in the second half where we controlled it a bit more and put pressure on them and I’m happy with that performance.
‘Albeit, a little bit more luck and a little bit more guile and we could have got that equaliser and nobody could have begrudged us that.’
Leeds had chances in the first half with Kyle Bartley, Alfonso Pedraza and Pablo Hernandez going close but they owed a lot to Rob Green, who made three good saves to deny Reading when the home side had got in behind the Leeds defence.
The defeat sees Leeds drop below Reading in the table and Monk will be looking for a quick response when they visit Brentford on Tuesday night.
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