Derby v Leeds highlights

I reckon we could've played better, it wasn't our best football, but the performance is up there as a good performance.

After about 20 minutes you could see we had the better of Derby fitness wise. Second half showed Derby slowing and unable to keep up with our tempo, when you see the goal after 55 minutes, you could see the defender struggling to get near the ball; this allowed the ball to run to Roof and score.

I reckon at Elland Road fitness and tempo are going to be the key issue for us, providing we don't give away a silly early goal.

If Derby win the game 1-0 or 2-1 or 3-2 it goes into extra time, where our fitness should prevail.

For all his faults, his bloopers and mishaps, Harrison put in a good cross for Roof to score, and he didn't over kick it for a change. Harrison also started it off with the little back heel and got the pass back.

We out played Derby for most of the game, despite what Keogh says. Stats say we only had 3 shots on target, but 1 went in........that's still a worry despite out playing Derby, we had a few but still needed a few more long shots.

Derby will come at us at Elland Road during first half, they have no choice really, this can play into our hands as fitness will once again be a telling point in second half, or, if it gets that far, during extra time.

It's in our hands now to book a trip to Wembley, then hopefully the Prem.

Just thinking on Wembley, the pitch is the same size as Elland Road and only 1 yard wider. Both Villa's and WBA's grounds are 10 yards shorter in length, and 6 yards smaller in width; could our fitness and tempo give us the upper hand over Villa or WBA at Wembley, remains to be seen.

Enjoy.

Match highlights..........includes Derby's little temper tantrums.

Bielsa post match conference

Roof post match interview

wainmanjoe.......I'm making this lad famous.

Leeds fans being normal nice quiet Leeds fans.

Fat Frank post match.

Keogh post match

 

Frank Lampard won’t win over any neutrals will he.

Never knew the stats on the pitch measurements, an interesting one that

Would we have won if Bamford hadn’t been banned...

Lawrence, did he get booked for the challenge before our goal?

 

Don't think he did as the ref allowed play on.

 

Yes, booked him before the restart.

 

Let’s give credit all round for the goal. Excellent interplay between Harrison and Dallas. Great ball, very good finish. And well done ref for the advantage. It was a great goal.

Stars yesterday for me were the defence. Appreciate we defend as a team, but Derby have goals in them, all 4 were excellent yesterday. We tidied up and played out from the back really well, Ayling and Dallas got forward really well

 

Gessa said he did get booked before restart, I didn't see that one.

 

Booking
Posted at55'
Tom Lawrence (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

Goal!
Posted at55'
Goal! Derby County 0, Leeds United 1. Kemar Roofe (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Harrison with a cross

 

Wasn't doubting you gessa, I didn't see the booking after goal, just saw the ref allowing play on.....

 

No problem LL, posted it just for my own sanity, started to doubt myself.

 

Good performance by Leeds,but also i'm gonna say a great performance from the officials,not very often fans praise officials,but i think they more than deserved it,even before the penalty incident (which YES FRANK, turned out to be the right decision) they were not being fooled by some of the Derby theatrics-so credit to them