Leeds pick up crucial points over Easter
Leeds United picked up a 2-2 draw against Watford and a vital 3-1 win at home to Hull City over the Easter weekend, as their push for promotion from the Championship continues. Lee Sobot reviews the action.
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00:00 Really disappointing first half, definitely one of the worst leads I've played in a first
00:07 half under Daniel Farker and no surprise really when they went 1-0 down, vacuumed Bayeux with
00:11 the goal. Mellier made a good save from Daniel Dennis but basically just parried the ball
00:16 out to Bayeux, a great first-time finish and that was 1-0 and probably Watford did deserve
00:21 that lead, struggled to get out of their own half to start with really until they created
00:24 a few chances. Then a stunning goal made at 1-1, Chrysensia Somerville, we all know what
00:29 a talent he is and what a goal that was, must be one of his best he's scored for Leeds,
00:32 best ever I would say, one of his best ever, cutting in from the left-hand side into the
00:35 box and just a beautiful corner into the far right corner, one of the goals of the season
00:39 for Leeds. That was 1-1 and you thought that's the platform now to go on and win the game
00:44 but straight away Watford came back and they peppered the goal before they finally did
00:48 go back in front on the stroke of half-time through Emmanuel Dennis and he just cut in
00:52 from the right-hand side this time and just too easy, skipped past Liam Cooper, drew Joe
00:56 Rowland towards him and fouled into the bottom left and it was just very disappointing really,
01:00 2-1 down at the break. Leeds much better in the second half but it wasn't quite the Alamo,
01:04 it wasn't exactly chance after chance after chance, yes they were much, much better but
01:10 it did very much look like this was going to end up in a 2-1 defeat and really Matteo
01:14 Joseph came off the bench and was superb and he's got to surely have more minutes, what
01:19 a talent he is, he's obviously got a lot on his plate trying to battle with Bamford and
01:22 Routier and everybody else up there but he was superb as soon as he came on and scored
01:26 basically pretty much his first touch of the game. On Easter Monday, Leeds returned home
01:30 to Elland Road to face a Hull City side vying to keep within touching distance of the play-offs.
01:37 Lee Sobert reflected on an eventful evening in Yorkshire. Leeds turned the screw and when
01:44 it was 1-1 it was that man, the star man, Crisenzio Somerville that won the White's
01:48 penalty basically all on his own through fantastic play, skipping around the full-back and was
01:52 brought down for a penalty. Richie then stepped up to take himself and a very, very cool finish,
01:57 looked like Joe Peru was going to take it, I'm not too sure what was going on there but
02:01 in the end Somerville took the spot kick himself and a very, very cool finish to make it 2-1
02:06 and then right at the end, even then Hull didn't go away, they kept pushing, very, very
02:10 late corner, Keepe went up for the corner but in the end that proved the sort of way
02:14 that Leeds got their third goal in stunning fashion through Dan James as Leeds cleared
02:18 the corner, moved the ball to him on the wing and everybody was crying, shoot with an empty
02:22 goal, that's just what he did and then there was absolutely wild scenes here as the ball
02:27 sailed into the back of the net. Leeds initially went 1-0 up through Sam Byron, we thought
02:31 he showed real determination there to get in at the far post and score that one when
02:37 the ball was coming towards him in the air, if he hadn't shown such determination then
02:40 Hull would have cleared that. But as I say Hull are a good side and they kept going,
02:44 causing lots of problems and they equalised, that man Fabio Carvalho, no surprise it was
02:48 him who equalised, Fulligeni as well was very, very good for Hull City and as I say they
02:52 are just a very, very good site. So Leeds and Daniel Farke be pleased to get this one