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Good Morning. It's Monday 18th December, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road
Leeds feeling the Sky Blues
There were ugly scenes upon the final whistle at Elland Road on Saturday afternoon as tempers frayed and frustration turned to anger, after Leeds failed to hold on to Crysencio Summerville's 58th minutes lead, and close the ten point gap between themselves and Ipswich Town in second place.
Coventry were content to park the bus, get ten men behind the ball, and kick seven shades of you know what, out of their opponents. To their credit, they had a game plan, and stuck to it. It may have been as aesthetically pleasing as Nottingham Forest Manager Steve Cooper at a beauty contest, but it was effective, and the perfect tonic to Leeds free flowing football.
When Leeds finally broke the deadlock on the hour mark (after a sublime finish by Summerville), it looked like they would be heading towards their eighth consecutive home win of the season; a feat last achieved nearly thirty-three years ago, but the Sky Blues had other ideas. Although rarely venturing out of their own half, when they did, they were afforded free reign at goal, and with twenty-five minutes left on the clock, Bobby Thomas equalised.
By this time, Leeds reeked of desperation, and even with six forwards on the pitch, were unable to inflict much damage on a Coventry side content to hack the ball (or anyone else in their vicinity) out of their way.
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Does Farke need to rotate the squad
Leeds are half way through their busy festive period, which sees nine Championship games in thirty four days, and in truth, it may have started to take its toll.
Over the past few games, we've seen normally reliable players make uncharacteristic blunders, much of which may be attributed to tiredness. Daniel Farke has 27 players at his disposal (minus injuries) but just like Bielsa rarely deviates from the same starting XI week in, week out.
The Whites are only ahead of Southampton on goal difference, ahead of the visit of Ipswich Town at the weekend. They need to re-find their form, and quickly, or risk slipping out of contention for automatic promotion.
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Lazy and disinterested. Fans rip into Spence
The Elland Road faithful were never going to be happy after Saturdays performance, and took to Twitter in their droves to express their dissatisfaction.
A host of stars including Meslier, Ampadu, Gray and Rutter received pelters, but this was nothing compared to the criticism aimed at Djed Spence.
The 23yo was enjoying just his third start of the season in a Leeds shirt, having overcome a serious outer ligament injury which had kept him sidelined for ten weeks. He didn't have much of a pre-season either, having picked up a knee injury towards the end of last season whilst on loan at Rennes (with Joe Rodon).
Injuries to Stuart Dallas, Sam Byram and Junior Firpo has meant that the gaffer had to switch Spence to the left, not that he'd need much persuasion - nobody loves an inverted player more than Farke!
However, his performance at the weekend had many reaching for their keyboards, to express their dissatisfaction, labelling him as lazy, disinterested, having negative body language and no urgency.
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