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David Watkins om 'de nye' på laget:
This was a great opportunity for a few of the Leeds players who appear to be classed as ‘first reserves” these days; in came Shackleton, Forshaw, Costa, Roberts and Rodrigo who must all be considered in that group, while it was a good opportunity for Diego Llorente to get his match legs back too. It has to be said that Shackleton, Forshaw and Llorente took their opportunities with both feet while the rest, to a lesser or greater degree didn’t.
Of those who didn’t, Costa had a shocker in my opinion; there was plenty of effort from him but little went right and he was responsible for a few of those off-target shots. Time must be running out for the £15 million man, and I wonder what young Crysencio Summerville was thinking as he watched Costa from the touchline. Surely the tricky little Crysencio will feature soon particularly as Ian Poveda has now been shipped out to Blackburn. Of the others, well, Tyler Roberts was always busy as he often is and I wouldn’t say he had a poor game and yet he was another who’s effort was seldom rewarded by any telling final ball or shot. A couple of times he tamely side-footed efforts at goal that really needed him to put his laces through it. Similarly Rodrigo once again looked like a man who doesn’t altogether buy into the system Leeds use, certainly he doesn’t thrive in it and he looks unlikely to start ahead of Klich or Dallas in the middle. With the dramatic change-about that occurred when Paddy B came on it’s pretty certain he’ll not start up front either, short of an injury to the now near iconic Patrick Bamford although I’d be hard pressed to decide if Tyler or Rodrigo should get that call in the event.
Those that thrived were Shacks, buzzing here there and everywhere but without fuss or bother; Adam Forshaw who belied all his injury woes with a powerful display and some crunching tackles both given and received; and Diego Llorente who was all class and composure and is surely a first choice for centre back once fully fit.
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Denne Daniel Chapman:
That didn’t prevent performances being rated for Premier League adequacy, and Diego Llorente came out best by starting attacks with some Pogba style pings; he didn’t have much defending to do. Tyler Roberts was, y’know, fine, his role in the third goal summing up his hesitancy: swing a boot through it, Tyro! Rodrigo summed his own night up by walking straight off to the sidelines when his number went up, trudging dejected to the bench, and posing for photos in the car park, apparently soon after full-time, wearing a faint expression of anguish. Jamie Shackleton was a storm of energy from right-back but, whenever there was a break in play, Bielsa would bring him together with Helder Costa as if trying to work out if there’d been a falling out, does someone need to apologise, why aren’t your passes finding each other. Costa was where all Shackleton’s good ideas were going to die, until Costa’s best moment at the end of the first half, when he cut in from the wing, beat a defender, and shaped to shoot. If you saw what happened next, no you didn’t. The Carabao Cup is still subject to the EFL broadcast deal that cost Shaun Harvey his job as league exec, so nobody could watch live on TV, and those of us who were there have entered into a pact of silence.
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