Preston North End 1-1 Leeds United: Why are you like this
Sometimes we just have to accept people for who they are when they're doing what they always do.
Sometimes we just have to accept people for who they are when they're doing what they always do.
Sam Byram went whomping through Riley McGree, Dan James hit the top corner, and Boro were done at that point. Yes, I know it's Leeds, but sometimes you can just tell.
Joe Rodon headed the opening goal from a corner like a harbinger of doom. It's always been a case of careful what we wish for from set-pieces. The games can be uneventful enough without Leeds settling things that way. If goals are only coming two-by-two at least let one of them be a thunderbastard.
Matches like this repeat matches from last season through the lack of a leader on the pitch, someone who could influence Leeds United from front to back and back again.
This week's contrast with Luton illuminated something about a good job well done, for the second summer running, in making sure that ain't us.
This match had every type of typical Leeds goal, for and against, and from that we can conclude — what?
Leeds United have a proud history of mechanised smothering, of centre-backs patrolling halfway and ticking off efficient 2-0 wins.
I'm not sure the players were as sanguine as Daniel Farke. They are the ones on the pitch feeling the purgatory, and while it might be their own fault, that was always the point of purgatory anyway.
Just give it Colin until the end of the season.
That stats for Joel Piroe and Nahki Wells backed up what the eyes saw, the red team being dominated out of attacking, the yellow team playing itself out.