Aston Villa 1-1 Leeds United: Season of the witch
One of the straight up delights of Anton Stach this season is that Leeds United have a technical and witty player who can and does fire free-kicks, without fuss, straight into the back of the net.
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Birmingham City 1-1 Leeds United (2-4p): Best medicine
Football is escapism, and a football game is played in one place between the referee's starting and ending whistles, and if everyone remembers that, we might get more games like this.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds United: Sock it to 'em
Maturity brings temperament in big moments, and Leeds discovered at the turn of the century how hard it is to achieve good things without it. Leeds are discovering, as this season turns towards its final months, just how much of a good thing they've got.
Leeds United 3-1 Nottingham Forest: More than a must win
Aaronson was helpfully metaphorising the whole team's response to losing to Arsenal, so thanks to him for summing up the night. He didn't have to get kicked so much, and Leeds didn't have to win this game, but it's good that everybody involved got on with those things anyway.
Leeds United 0-4 Arsenal: Styling it out
The biggest intrigue of the day was Daniel Farke, managing to simultaneously stir the pots marked 'transfer window' and 'department of unreliable goalkeepers'. And just why did every Norwegian goalkeeper sign for Spurs in the 1990s, anyway?
Everton 1-1 Leeds United: Trust against Barry
A manager is entitled, after much thought, to leave the players who kept a clean sheet last week out there on the pitch and expect them to keep doing their jobs, i.e., not conceding to Thierno Barry.
Leeds United 1-0 Fulham: A place in the scene
There was nothing low-key about anyone's celebrations, and why not? Leeds hadn't just waited a long time for this goal, they'd worked a long time for it, ever since Gabriel Gudmundsson scored the other way down London.
Derby County 1-3 Leeds United: No fairytales, but thanks
This season is for giving in to modern football's desire for turning itself into the worst kind of office work, for ensuring incremental off-field progress is supported by meeting predetermined on-field key performance indicators, i.e., not getting flipping relegated.
Newcastle United 4-3 Leeds United: Barnes burner
Sometimes you just have to give up a game up to the fates. But then you remember the fates have Harvey bloody Barnes playing for them.
Leeds United 1-1 Manchester United: Keeping busy
In the end Leeds United won a valuable point that could be important for the longer term progression of the club against its key performance indicators on and off the field. But this was one occasion when fans wanted more than that Premier League routine.