Leeds dumped out of FA Cup but focus returns to promotion

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Daniel Wales and Lee Sobot review Leeds United vs. Millwall.

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00:00Lee, Lee's FA Cup journey for this season has come to an end, although perhaps it's

00:06not too disappointing for a lot of supporters given the fact that the league is by far and

00:11away the main priority this season. It was disappointing though, a 2-0 home loss against

00:17Millwall, lots of changes, 10 changes in fact, were made in it. So you tell me Lee, is it

00:24not the end of the world that they've gone out or is it still a little bit disappointing?

00:28If you're being brutally honest, I don't think it's the end of the world whatsoever. I'm

00:31not saying it's like a bonus or a boost or a good thing or anything because obviously

00:35everybody, you know, you want to see your team win, don't you, basically. And it was

00:38a really weird atmosphere at Ellenrode because once it went 2-0, it just felt like, I mean,

00:42obviously there was Pascal's missed penalty, but once that was saved, I think nobody, you

00:46know, it almost felt like there was no way back really and stuff. But, you know, it's

00:50just one of those things, you know, there's no point beating around the bush. Everybody

00:53knows that this season is all about promotion. And the thing is with it, if you can have

00:57a cup run as well and get quite far in it and it doesn't harm your league form, etc,

01:01then great, all well and good and stuff. But to be honest, the conclusion of that game

01:06really was the fact that it may be just sort of the disappointment was that the players

01:10who came in, most of them, you know, obviously 10 changes and that was a big chance for players

01:14to come in and really, really impress. And it has to be said that nobody really stepped

01:18up to the plate and really excelled. Youngstown Chambers did very, very well on his debut

01:23at 17 and Isaac Schmidt was quite good in flashes, but nobody really stood out. And

01:28I think that was probably the disappointing thing. I think people can probably definitely

01:32stomach going out of the FA Cup if you sort of go out of a bang or something like that,

01:36you know, but also sort of like a Premier League team, maybe. But obviously that was

01:39a game Leeds were expected to win. But we did say beforehand that it wouldn't be a massive

01:43shock. You know, we thought Millwark might make less changes than Leeds and that was

01:46definitely the case. And it was, you know, obviously it's a massively disjointed Leeds

01:49team when you make 10 changes. There are other factors as well. Liam Roberts, the Millwall

01:54keeper, had an absolute blinder, you know, made lots and lots of good saves. Obviously,

01:58you have a penalty save and things like that. You know, Leeds had chances and stuff. But

02:02yeah, it was disappointing when you look at the afternoon as a whole and the performance

02:06and everything like that. But look, you know, it's one of them things where I think you

02:08just kind of like, you just sort of shrug it off, you know, and you move on basically

02:11because it is all about promotion. And to be honest, I sort of said beforehand, the

02:15biggest game of the day really wasn't Leeds against Millwall. It was probably Sheffield

02:18United against Nortsmouth because, you know, which was obviously at three o'clock and,

02:21you know, that was the one that matters most because that's going to have the biggest impacts

02:24on the promotion race. And obviously the Blades got a victory as well. I don't think Chris

02:28Wilder was exactly thrilled with their performance, but they got the win anyway. So yeah, not a

02:33great day, obviously, a defeat and Sheffield United winning as well. But on the flip side,

02:37you could look at it and say, well, if Daniel Farker went full strength and played all of

02:40his big guns and he picked up two or three injuries to massive, massive players, then

02:44obviously you'd be sat there thinking, well, what did he do that for, you know? So I don't

02:47think you can lay him any blame at Daniel Farker. I think he did the right thing. People might say

02:5010 changes was a bit too many, but to be quite honest, I quite agree with him really. I think

02:54that was the right thing to do. Roman and James had knocks as well. So that's why they missed out.

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