Points and positivity: Yorkshire football roundup

Daniel Wales looks at a draw for Leeds United and a win for Bradford City.

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00:00At Deepdale, Leeds were certainly capable of a win, but whether they would claim one was debatable.

00:30However, there are two main themes from this game.

00:38Number one is the number of huge missed chances that Leeds failed to put in the back of the net in this game.

00:45Particularly Patrick Bamford's, which I think had an xG of something like 0.98 or whatever it was.

00:50I've not watched it back a few times yet, but it just looks like a certain goal put wide from close range from a James Cross.

00:59It wasn't just him though, it has to be said. Aronson in the first half was pretty much one-on-one from an angle.

01:05It wasn't even close, blazed it high wide over the bar.

01:08The other thing to think about here obviously is a real baffling refereeing decision when we all looked at each other

01:16and were absolutely convinced that Preston captain Ben Whiteman was about to be given his marching orders

01:21for a foul on Jadon Vogel towards the end of the first half. He'd already been booked.

01:27Brendan Aronson had turned him and got away from him. It wasn't that long after that that he went through Vogel on the edge of the box.

01:33At first glance, it looks a pretty nasty tackle really. You half wondered if it was even going to be a red.

01:38Anyway, if he hadn't been booked, but obviously he had been booked.

01:41Obviously, everybody's thinking it's going to be a second yellow card, but amazingly no second yellow card.

01:45In fact, the only yellow card that came out was one for Daniel Farker on the bench for protesting.

01:49I'm not surprised to be honest about that decision. It was one of the worst decisions I think any of us have seen.

01:54Across at Valley Parade, Bradford knew that against Swindon, they were facing a struggling side in League Two.

02:02This they took full advantage of, winning by one goal to nil to finally claim three points after several games without a win.

02:08All in all, Bradford were good value for their victory, with the winning goal coming midway through the first half thanks to Callum Cavanagh.

02:15A lapse in concentration by those at the back for Swindon allowed the Bradford man to latch onto the ball and get an initial strike away.

02:23This effort was parried away by the keeper, but Cavanagh was alert enough to still be running forward

02:28and slotted the loose ball home into the empty net to give his side the lead.

02:33No further goals came during the match, meaning that Bradford were able to see themselves into 10th place in League Two

02:40and only three points away from Grimsby and Chesterfield sat just inside the playoffs.

02:45The win is certainly therefore a platform on which the side can build,

02:49but tough tests are to come over the festive period in the coming weeks, including Chesterfield and Port Vale,

02:55both of whom sit higher up than Bradford in the table.