Leeds United and Daniel Farke's first promotion bullet is gone. It missed. The play-offs put another in the chamber, locked and loaded. The question is whether or not they still have it in them to pull the trigger.
For months the last game of the season at home to Southampton had the potential to be massive, season-defining even. By the time it arrived it held no more than a smidgen of potential for the miraculous. Even for the most optimistic of Whites, the potential of underwhelm was overwhelming. Prayers were being said in Tokyo, while at Elland Road itself the atmosphere was weird.
Leeds half cleared a corner, a clutch of players jogged out of the penalty area and forgot all about the three unmarked Saints players to their left. Che Adams shrugged off Glen Kamara and crossed for one of those unmarked players, Adam Armstrong, to stroke past Illan Meslier. There's throwing caution to the wind and there's throwing it away.
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