Stats: It’s A Case Of As You Were For Leeds, But Against Ipswich We Had Our Scoring Boots On

Leeds United welcomed Ipswich Town to Elland Road for last night’s midweek Championship encounter.

On the back of the draw against Brentford and the defeat against Blackburn Rovers, there was some concern in the fanbase given we had lost our clinical touch and elements of play were becoming sloppy. Some even overly read into manager Marcelo Bielsa’s words of frustration and guessed a departure before the New Year were on the cards.

A 2-0 victory with Kemar Roofe getting back to scoring ways as well as a skipper’s performance from Liam Cooper as he knocked in the second should settle nerves though.

Despite poorer form recently, the three points have put us back to the top of the second tier table – even if the most cautious will say Ipswich are propping up the table and should’ve been there for the taking. In football, you can only beat what’s in front of you though and these matches are the league’s version of a banana skin but we avoided it.

The match stats show it was largely similar to what we’ve seen before, but as players return from injury and start to get their sharpness back, against Ipswich we were just less wasteful.

Leeds United				Ipswich Town
Roofe (22), Cooper (66)
Peacock-Farrell				Bialkowski
Berardi			27	Spence
Phillips				Chambers
Cooper				Pennington
Ayling				Knudsen
Saiz			57	Nolan
Klich				Skuse			85
Alioski				Downes
Hernandez				Edun			62
Roofe				Jackson
Harrison			58	Sears			76
Substitutes
Forshaw			57	Gerken
Roberts				Donacien
Dallas			27	Chalobah			85
Pearce			58	Edwards			76
Blackman				Ward			62
Baker				Dozzell
Clarke				Lankester

Game Statistics
18	Goal attempts	3
5	On Target	2
15	Corners	0
10	Fouls	12
1	Yellow Cards	3
0	Red Cards	0
65	%	35