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West Brom 0 Leeds United 0: YEP video verdict
Yorkshire Evening Post
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17/08/2024
Leeds United writer Lee Sobot with his verdict from The Hawthorns stands on a goalless draw as the wait for a first win continues.
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Hello there, Lee Sobot at the Yorkshire Evening Post here from West Bromwich Albion, FC the
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Hawthorns where there's not much to report because there were no goals to report as the
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game ended in a goalless draw between the Baggies and the Whites. There is a bit more
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to report than that though really because there's quite an important aspect to report
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here which is how Leeds United are at the moment, which is basically on this evidence
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pretty solid in defence but just massively lacking in an attacking sphere in the final
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third and to be honest that is absolutely no surprise when you look at the players who
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have departed. You take out Gio Junior-Routier who was obviously on the verge of his Premier
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League move to Brighton and then you take out Kricenzio Somerville, obviously the league's
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best player, player of the year last season who has obviously already made his move to
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West Ham. You take those two out, bags of goals and assists between them last season
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and obviously if you don't replace them then you're going to have a problem and that's
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basically what was played out here to be quite truthful. I mean there were a few chances
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for both teams in the second half but in the end a goalless draw. The first half passed
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without a single shot on target from either team. Leeds did end the half slightly better
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and Pascal put in one wide, a deflected header that went just wide but I mean not much to
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write home about in the first half. The second half was a bit of a better spectacle, not
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exactly a classic game of the century though by any means but you've got to say West Brom
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probably had slightly better chances you would say. Leeds pretty lucky that one of the shots
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was fired straight at El Amelie who kept a clean sheet which is obviously going to
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do wonders for his confidence. But there were chances for Leeds as well. Peru had a couple,
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the decent break down the right-hand side started off for a bogey to Matteo Joseph across
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for Peru but he could only put that wide and he had a really disappointing afternoon. It
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was no surprise that he got subbed off. I mean in a way he was basically playing as
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Routier's replacement really in the number 10 role and just didn't look the answer in
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that role whatsoever and he's having a frustrating time with things at the moment. I mean put
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simply I think Leeds know this, obviously they need to get some players in, they need
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to get some attacking players in and they've now got two weeks to do that and quite simply
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I think they need to get replacements in for Routier and for Somerville. I mean you're
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not going to replace them like for like because they're too good of players really for this
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level but certainly get two people in to sort of cover that. A full-back also is something
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that Leeds and Daniel Farke are looking at and that seems sensible obviously to provide
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extra cover and competition in that area. And as well as a centre midfielder and a centre
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midfielder again sort of in keeping with the theme which we're saying here, a centre
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midfielder who can create because you had Ampadu and Groove in the middle again today.
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Both sort of solid shifts just getting stuck in, you know plenty of tackles and whatnot
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but just need like a little bit more of a creative spark and Joe Rothwell came on just
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after the hour mark and actually ended up playing at number 10 and you know he's obviously
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a bit more of a forward-thinking midfielder but again just couldn't you know give the
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spark that Leeds needed really and as I say in the end here it finished goalers. What
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we would say is a goalless draw here at West Brom, a West Brom side who obviously made
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the playoffs last season is you know in its own right probably quite a good result getting
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a clean sheet here. As it was put to me it's a better result than Leeds got last season
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obviously when they fell to a 1-0 defeat here over Christmas time so that's a step in the
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right direction and also I think if you do get a point here and you take three points
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in the opening game of the season against Portsmouth then suddenly you're looking at
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four points out of six and you're thinking that's a pretty decent return but alas as
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we know they only got one point against Portsmouth, the performance obviously merited three, they
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should have got three but they didn't so they're now on two points out of a possible
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six which you know is basically points return-wise a pretty slow start so obviously they've got
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to go to Sheffield Wednesday now, they're still seeking that first win of the season,
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Sheffield Wednesday away on Friday night at Hillsborough will be a very, very hard game
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obviously Yorkshire derby but not just that they're actually looking at an improved outfit
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now under Danny Rowland, that'll be a very, very hard game so the wait continues. I think
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obviously after conceding six in two games then the obvious plus point here is the defensive
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aspect of it. Pascal Stroik for me was the man of the match today, I thought he was excellent
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at the back, he probably should have scored, he had two headers that were sent wide but
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if he'd have put one of those in he's sort of talking an absolutely excellent display
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but he was very solid at the back next to Rodon but I mean just in a nutshell Leeds
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need some attackers, they need some more flair, they need to get you know some more stuff
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in the final third and the next two weeks are going to be crucial towards that and basically
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what they do in those two weeks will probably determine what they do this season. The wait
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continues for a win but it's sort of a step in the right direction as it finishes here,
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West Brom nil, Leeds United nil.
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