Leeds United closed the hole on leaders Sunderland to only two factors on the prime of the Championship table, following Saturday’s deserved 2-0 victory over a struggling Queen’s Park Rangers facet at Elland Street.
It wasn’t all plain-sailing for Daniel Farke‘s males – with it taking till the ninety fifth minute for the victory to really be sealed – but the Yorkshire facet’s high quality merely shone by in the long run, having bounced again impressively following the midweek defeat to Millwall.
Objectives from Jayden Bogle and Joel Piroe proved the distinction in the long run, with the Whites heading into the worldwide break in a robust place of their determined pursuit of computerized promotion.
With a two-week break now on the playing cards, Farke can replicate on this newest exhibiting, with a variety of performances – each good and dangerous – having given the German loads of meals for thought transferring ahead.
Leeds’ finest performers vs QPR
A phrase should, after all, be stated for the person who opened the scoring, with Bogle firing residence off the crossbar following a chaotic, penalty field scramble after simply 19 minutes.
That early strike set the tone for who was a standout, all-round show for the previous Sheffield United man, as he supplied an actual outlet in his superior, right-back berth, having additionally supplied three key passes and accomplished 5 of his seven tried dribbles, whereas successful eight floor duels as well, as per Sofascore.
Elsewhere, it proved one other superb day within the midfield ranks for the pairing of Ao Tanaka and Joe Rothwell, with the duo each taking up 90 touches of the ball as they sought to dictate proceedings, whereas additionally having fun with a 94% and 93% go accuracy fee, respectively.
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Key stats – Leeds vs QPR |
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Stat |
Highest rating |
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Most touches |
Struijk (109) |
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Highest go accuracy |
Rothwell & Solomon (94%) |
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Most key passes |
Bogle & Aaronson (3) |
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Floor duels gained |
Bogle (8) |
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Aerial duels gained |
Sam Discipline (4) |
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Most tackles |
Jimmy Dunne (6) |
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Profitable dribbles |
Bogle (5) |
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Photographs heading in the right direction |
Bogle (2) |
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Possession misplaced |
Byram & Nardi (19x) |
Whereas issues did not fairly click on into gear forward of these two new arrivals, the aforementioned Piroe did take advantage of his late cameo after producing a pleasant, poked end previous the onrushing Paul Nardi – the Dutchman taking his tally to six for the season within the second tier.
For all these positives, nevertheless, one participant who deserves to come back underneath the microscope is Manor Solomon, with the on-loan winger once more flattering to deceive down the left.
Leeds’ worst performer vs QPR
Except for a short spell at Fulham wherein he once scored in five successive games for the Cottagers whereas on mortgage from Shakhtar Donetsk, life in English soccer hasn’t been significantly form to the Israeli worldwide up to now.
After a season wrecked by damage at Tottenham Hotspur in 2023/24 – wherein he was restricted to just six appearances underneath Ange Postecoglou – the 25-year-old has since endured a blended starting in Yorkshire, with just one assist to indicate for his efforts.
Once more, a hamstring damage earlier within the marketing campaign could have been a think about his lowly return, but as CBS’ Jake Winderman said, the diminutive expertise merely “does not look sharp“, whether or not he’s carrying an damage or not.
Maybe, Farke and co can be questioning the knowledge of bringing within the winger on a brief foundation from Spurs, with it having been yet one more ineffectual attacking show, as he failed to offer a single key go, whereas additionally failing to efficiently full a single dribble.
The struggling star did get pleasure from a 94% go accuracy previous to being changed by Daniel James within the closing phases, though he additionally misplaced the ball on 9 events from his 45 touches, with Leeds Dwell’s Beren Cross – who awarded him a 5/10 match rating – writing that he ‘didn’t do an enormous quantity to harm QPR’.
There was, after all, his well-taken strike that was in the end disallowed for offside, but Solomon seemingly didn’t do sufficient to warrant preserving his beginning berth forward of that man James.
In fact, his efficiency could also be considerably overshadowed by the eventual scoreline and heroics of Bogle and Piroe, however that is to not say he should not nonetheless discover himself out of the beginning lineup for the journey to Swansea Metropolis on 24 November.
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