Here are our four talking points from Leeds United's 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion at Elland Road in the Championship as Luke Ayling finds an equaliser for Jayson Molumby's opening goal
With nine players injured, two effectively on strike, one of whom saw a formal transfer request submitted before kick-off, Jack Harrison gone, swiftly extinguished hopes of Tyler Adams staying, a fresh injury to Ian Poveda and a squad somehow even less populated than last weekend’s, Leeds United’s fans would have been forgiven for feeling flat at kick-off last night.
So what if the starting line-up’s average age was 23, so what if half an XI needs to be recruited in a fortnight, so what if there is a seven-man bench with two goalkeepers, so what if a 14th summer exit is about to be confirmed? This is Leeds United and this is Elland Road.Led by the Norman Hunter Stand, thunderous chants rolled down onto the pitch from all four sides of the ground across the evening. Farke noticed and it’s reassurance he will feed off. The players too.
As bright as the future may be for the five outfield options named in the dugout, none of them have a track record of turning games around, in an attacking sense, at this level. When does this situation change though? Not only was he missing in action, but a formal transfer request from his camp was dumped in the e-mail inbox of Paraag Marathe around 90 minutes before kick-off. It was a purposefully disruptive point at which to issue the request, but ultimately a little backwards in its effect.
Gnonto and his camp are running out of cards to play, while United’s resolve in keeping him remains undiminished at this stage of proceedings. This one will run and run a little while longer with less than two weeks of the window now remaining.It’s from an admittedly low bar, but last night was among Dan James’s best performances in Leeds colours. The assist, with that delightfully hanging cross for Luke Ayling to attack, was the attacking return he deserved from the evening.
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