Leeds United writer Lee Sobot from the Elland Road stands on a first home league defeat of the season at the worst possible time for Daniel Farke's side against Blackburn Rovers.
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00:00 Hello there, Lee Sobot at the Yorkshire Evening Post here from Ellen Road.
00:06 And Ellen Road where we have just seen a first league defeat of the season for Daniel Fark's side
00:12 as they fell to a 1-0 loss against Blackburn Rovers and no other way of putting it other than a huge opportunity blown.
00:20 Again for the Whites on the back of a really good result for them on Friday night in terms of Leicester City
00:26 falling to defeat at Plymouth Argyle and basically here they've blown the chance to not just go top
00:32 but to have gone into the automatic promotion places and really you've got to ask now quite what will happen with this season.
00:39 There's every chance they still might finish top two. There's definite chances of that no matter what happens
00:45 in terms of the results between when Leeds finish off here and when they play next against Middlesbrough
00:51 there'll be a long gap to that one a week on Monday night. But if they keep on with these results at the moment
00:57 then they definitely won't be going up and if this theme continues of just struggling to create really
01:03 and just an extremely, extremely disappointing afternoon here and this is a defeat remember against the side in Blackburn Rovers
01:09 who were thumped 5-0 in midweek at Bristol City who were fighting relegation and obviously it was an extremely
01:16 disappointing when Leeds were held to a goalless draw against Sunderland in midweek and that's only got worse here
01:21 with the 1-0 defeat against Blackburn and no surprise who got the only goal of the goal, Sammy Smoddick's the league's top scorer.
01:27 He had a bit of a frustrating first half, he looked quite fired up and angry that Blackburn weren't really getting up the pitch
01:32 but he was much better in the second half and with 82 minutes on the clock Leeds were dominating and pushing forward
01:37 but you sort of expected that but basically a route one goal but a very neat goal nevertheless.
01:41 Ball flicked on, second ball through to Smoddick's and once he was 1-1 with Melie, the championship's top scorer
01:47 was not going to miss and a wide and neat finish and that was that. Leeds tried to rally, there was added time
01:52 there still wasn't enough added time really, especially in the first half, one minute when you think about how much time
01:57 Blackburn wasted in terms of taking ages with everything but you can't blame that, the referee wasn't great either.
02:02 Leeds felt they should have had a penalty at the end when Patrick Bamford went down in the box and they did look to be
02:07 something in that but ultimately they just ran out of ideas there and an awful lot of shots and attempts at goal
02:12 I think it was 18 attempts, an awful lot of possession as you would expect but not really a sort of game where you
02:18 thought how did he miss that, how did he miss that, how did he miss that, there were just lots of decent enough chances
02:23 I mean they did come close, Dan James flashed one across goal when Nonto went into the post to try and finish from close range
02:29 there was a good chance for Emilia Gruev in the first half when he put the ball wide from a Nonto cutback.
02:34 Nonto was excellent in taking off, I think everybody was scratching their head at that but basically Daniel Farke said
02:39 he was just coming back from injury and you can tell that and the substitutions will be questioned, everything will be
02:45 questioned because Leeds have fallen to a 1-0 defeat. Really nice moment at half time when everybody paid tribute to
02:50 Stuart Dallas, the score was goalless at that time, I think everybody still hoped they'd go on and win the game but they didn't
02:55 they've fallen to a 1-0 defeat and plenty of questions to answer now in this season's All Black promotion race. That's all for now.