Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford has been dealt a blow, as the English Football League have decided that our second goal at Luton Town on Saturday was an own goal, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post.
The EFL’s Dubious Goals Committee met to discuss the match-winning strike at the start of the week, after Bamford insisted that it was his goal rather than an own goal by Luton defender Matthew Pearson.
Bamford was adamant that he got his studs to the ball and made contact with Mateusz Klich’s cross before Pearson’s outstretched boot diverted the ball past goalkeeper James Shea, but the panel disagreed.
The committee decided that the telling touch that sealed the win for the Whites was made by Pearson, not Bamford, and left the £5.4million-rated striker on six league goals for the season rather than seven.
Speaking with the club’s official website after we beat the Hatters, Bamford said: “I definitely touched it, I went across the front post, slid in and then I wasn’t sure what happened after until I looked up and saw the ball in the net.
“As a striker, I’m going to claim it and they should side with the striker!”
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News that the Dubious Goals Committee marked the strike as an own goal by Pearson will have come at a blow to Bamford, who would have been within touching distance of his nine-goal Championship haul from last season had the decision gone his way.
Bamford has been a mainstay of Marcelo Bielsa’s plans this season having avoided injuries throughout the opening months of the season, whereas a Cruciate Ligament Rupture in September 2018 kept him out until December before he would suffer further knee problems.