Watford 2 Leeds United 2: YEP video verdict

Leeds United writer Lee Sobot battles the mower to give his verdict on a 2-2 draw for Daniel Farke's side against Watford at Vicarage Road.

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00:00 Hello there, Lee Sobot at the Orchard Evening Post here from Vicarage Road where I'm battling

00:06 with the mower a bit as you'll see behind me, but where Leeds United have left with

00:10 a 2-2 draw which ultimately saw them drop from first place down to second in terms of

00:16 how the division began at the start of play on Good Friday. And a hard one to assess really

00:21 because no doubting that you'd come here wanting to get three points and obviously to stay

00:26 top of the pile after Ipswich's win, but really in the end probably a point not up by the

00:32 result considering the way that Leeds played in the first half, considering that Watford

00:36 could have won and scored more than two goals, considering that Leeds looked very much all

00:39 at sea in the first half, and in the end, I mean Daniel Fark said himself, definitely

00:44 a good point. And I think you'd probably have to agree with that the way that things were

00:48 going this evening, just probably disappointing in the sense that obviously Leeds have lost

00:53 leadership of the division and now sit one point behind Ipswich Town, Yester ahead of

00:58 Leicester City, obviously Leicester's defeat after Leicester's defeat, but Leicester have

01:02 that game in hand. So very much all to play for with seven games left, I mean you could

01:07 sort of say it's out of Leeds' hands now I guess if Leicester get something from that

01:11 game in hand, but surely there will be more twists and turns to come. In terms of the

01:16 game, really disappointing first half, definitely one of the worst Leeds have played in the

01:21 first half under Daniel Farka, and no surprise really when they went 1-0 down, vacuumed Bayeux

01:26 with the goal, Mellier made a good save from Daniel Dennis, but basically just parried

01:30 the ball out to Bayeux, who had a great first-time finish and that was 1-0 and probably, well

01:35 Watford did deserve that, Leeds struggled to get out of their own half to start with

01:38 really until they created a few chances. Then a stunning goal made it 1-1, Chrys Enzi of

01:42 Somerville, we all know what a talent he is and what a goal that was, must be one of his

01:45 best he's scored for Leeds, best ever I would say, one of his best ever, cutting in from

01:49 the left-hand side into the box and just a beautiful corner into the far right corner,

01:53 one of the goals of the season for Leeds. That was 1-1 and you thought that's the platform

01:58 now to go on and win the game, but straight away Watford came back and they peppered the

02:02 goal before they finally did go back in front on the stroke of half-time, through Emmanuel

02:05 Dennis and he just cut in from the right-hand side this time and just too easy, skipped

02:09 past Liam Cooper, drew Joe Roden towards him and fired into the bottom left and it was

02:13 just very disappointing really, 2-1 down at the break. Leeds much better in the second

02:17 half but it wasn't quite the Alamo, it wasn't exactly chance after chance after chance,

02:22 yes they were much, much better but it did very much look like this was going to end

02:27 up in a 2-1 defeat and really, Matteo Joseph came off the bench and was superb and he's

02:31 got to surely have more minutes, what a talent he is, he's obviously got a lot on his plate,

02:36 trying to battle with Bamford and Routier and everybody else up there but he was superb

02:39 as soon as he came on and scored basically with pretty much his first touch of the game

02:43 across from the left and short of strike he's finished and then to put it in 2-2. Even then

02:47 Leeds could have had a winner, Jay Nantney was denied as part of a smart double save

02:51 and that's how it ended, so it finishes 2-2 here, straight back to it at Hull City at

02:55 home on Monday, I suspect there'll be more twists and turns there and you'd hope so,

02:58 it's finished here 2-2.