Lonergan - 6 - Saved a penalty but it was his terrble goal kick that led to the spot-kick. Didnt have many saves to make but flapped at a couple of corners. Lees - 6 - Not a full-back. If hes good enough for the team then he should be in CB. He offers very little attacking support. Leeds are a small side so maybe he is in this position to aid defensive set-pieces? However, putting players in wrong positions stops the fluency of our football. White 8 - Man of the match by a country mile. Dancing quick feet all day which he needed numerous times given some awful passes to him from Nunez and Howson Kisnorbo -3 - Shocking. Three times he raced out from defence and didnt make the tackle. I think he won only 1 header all day and 1 free header went off his head sidewads! Capped it all off by getting sent off. If youre going to get sent off at least bring the player down outside the box. If you cant then statistically youre better not bringing the player down in the box and letting the striker shoot. Poor decision, worst ive ever seen him play. O'Dea - 5 - Poor distribution with the back-pass almost costing us dear. Snodgrass 4 - Offered very little today and no surprise he was subbed. Missed a good chance too. Nunez - 5.5 - Too keen on shooting from distence today but he did put Keough through for a 1-on-1 and a couple of decent crosses. Howson - 5.5 - Poor distribution all game and put their centre-forward through with one wayward pass. Lots of energy but not a lot to show for it Clayton 6 - Showed some nice touches at times and knocked a couple of great balls forwards. Cant do it all on his own though and i think he was let down by his midfield colleagues today. McCormack - 6.5 - Worked hard but too often muscled off the ball. Grabbed the goal though doing his job. Keough - 5 - Started very brightly linking all the play together in the opening 10mins. Missed a 1-on-1 when passing across to McCormack would have put us 2-0 up. 1 minute later and it was 1-1. Might be his last start in a Leeds shirt with Becchio approaching full fitness Becchio - 6 - Tried hard to change the game but his main contribution was giving awau fouls and diving on the floor. Won the flick on from the long throw-in to get us the winner Bromby - 7 - Looked solid at the back and provided the long-throw from which we scored an unlikely winner from. Forssell - 6 - Looks strong enough to hold the ball up and link play well. Grayson - 8 - He took the criticism for the tactics last time we went down to 10-men. Surely he deserves the plaudits today. His substitutions were right. Would have liked to see Sam on the bench rather than Becchio and Forssell who look similar styles. Overall we beat a poor team who i think will struggle this season. Not quite sure how we did with so many poor individual performances.
Wasn't at the game, so I guess it may be unfair to say this, but Kisnorbo needs to be dropped now and he needs reserve games to get his full fitness back, he's simply not good enough anymore. He will be banned for a few games and I only hope Grayson keeps him out for some time, for the sake of the team. As for Snoddy, I can't help feel the transfer accepted by the club last month has had a major affect on his motivation for the club. How can he give his all when he knows the club want to sell him and have only suspended the sale by a few months. He knows if he gets injured he could lose out on this move to the EPL and you can't blame him for not wanting to do anything that threatens this, he should however, not be a regular starter and Grayson needs to be honest with people about this. Agree with the suggestion that it might be Keogh's last game, as with Becchio back and Forssell now added to the squad, he is no longer needed.
