Dan James in the groove

Graham and Joe discuss winger Dan James hitting form on the Inside Elland Road podcast

Transcript

00:00Dan James is getting in the groove, isn't he?

00:08Yes.

00:09It seems like everything he touches now is turned to danger for opposition teams, particularly

00:13at Elland Road, but he's just such a threat, and especially in that Borough game.

00:20He was involved in all three goals, scored one, assisted, well, you can kind of say assist,

00:26but he took a nick on the way through for Nyanto's sort of ricochet finish, if you can

00:35call it a finish.

00:36And then for the third one, he plays the ball into Tanaka in the box, keeping his composure

00:42in transition.

00:43So that's a pre-assist as well.

00:48He's at the core of everything good that Leeds do at the moment.

00:51Ever since he sat down with the YEP's Graeme Smith, it feels like he's just been on fire.

00:58Whether it's the environment, whether it's the championship, I don't know, but he does

01:03seem to have improved that element of his game massively.

01:06And you can think of some of the times he's been played through and he's had time to think

01:09about it, like against Borough.

01:12He took a couple of touches, didn't he, before the shot to take him into the area.

01:16He had time to think about that and he had options.

01:19And then he produces that finish, which was just very, very classy, very, very composed.

01:26Keeper was getting nowhere near it, quite difficult for a right footer to get that shot

01:31right, not put too much curl on it and send it past the far post.

01:36I thought it was a tremendous finish and another example of how he's got better.