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Leeds United 1 Stoke City 0: YEP video verdict
Yorkshire Evening Post
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05/03/2024
Leeds United writer Lee Sobot with his verdict from the Elland Road stands on the tense 1-0 victory against Stoke and the automatic promotion race.
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Hello there, Lee Sobot at the Yorkshire Evening Post here from Ellen Road where Leeds United
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swiftly returned to winning ways with a 1-0 victory against Stoke City but really it was
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anything but straightforward in the end as Stoke produced a really good second half fight
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back and in the end Leeds were pretty grateful to Hélène Mellier really for some fine saves
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at the end including a very very good one right at the death and also plucking the cross
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out of the air and it's sort of never dull here is it and it's never easy I suppose but
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all that matters really tonight is that they got the three points what you would say is
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that Leeds had an awful lot of chances themselves in the first half and actually did have some
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good chances in the second half as well but as I say there was a real fight back from
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Stoke and Stephen Schumacher the Stoke boss was saying afterwards how proud he is of his
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players and everything and so that's some very nice words to say about Leeds when we
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asked him whether he thought they'd get back into the Premier League and he said he thought
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they would which makes him even prouder of this performance and he described the atmosphere
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here as class which it was again although it was very very tense in the second half
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and in the end Dan James' strike just after the half hour mark has proved the only goal
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of the game fine goal from Dan James it was one of three players to come back into the
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side as Willy Nonto dropped to the bench and his goal was brilliant obviously he's always
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been criticised James for end product but I mean the number of assists and goals he's
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got this season has been an answer to that back into the side tonight and you know he's
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ultimately proved the match winner Routier fed him out wide Routier was brilliant in
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the first half some of his hold up play was excellent Dan James then just surged towards
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the box sort of jinked one way then the other made space for the shot and then fired into
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the bottom left corner it was a really really neat goal there were loads of other chances
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for Leeds in the first half there should have been more than one up at the interval Stoke
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had a couple of chances but nothing really major but after the break they really did
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come out and respond well as I say Leeds did have chances as well Matteo Joseph came on
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the young striker he looked certain to score when going around the keeper but had his shot
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cleared off the line there were a few other bits and bobs chances as well but as I say
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Melie produced some good saves and there was a lot of shots wide from Stoke and you know
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it's a sort of difficult one to assess but all that matters is Leeds got the three points
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so there was a bit of a twist in the tale because it looked like Ipswich were going
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to possibly lose in terms of trailing twice against Bristol City only to amazingly yet
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again fight back and steal a 3-2 success so that's left the top three as it is with Leicester
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winning as well so still two points behind and you know the games are obviously starting
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to tick down but you'd expect there to be more twists and turns that said I don't think
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Ipswich are going anywhere going away and Leeds are going to have to be pretty relentless
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I think and just get another winning run going but we'll have to wait and see how that plays
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out also Stoke ended the game with 10 men after Ben Pearson was shown off for a second
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yellow that was right at the death and you know Stoke can be proud of themselves they
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did well here tonight but you know Leeds in the end they got the job done yet again really
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I mean the clean sheet was the foundation for success obviously but again it's just
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that theme again a little bit in terms of like needing more chances and missing too
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many chances because they should have been home and hosed really at half time but fair
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play to Stoke finished 1-0 here now on to the end of a very very busy week in the Friday
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night derby at Hillsborough against Sheffield Wednesday and the win there will obviously
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put Leeds second ahead of Ipswich playing that's all for now.
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