Leeds United took half in a spectacular Premier League fixture on Saturday afternoon, with Jesse Marsch’s facet coming from two objectives right down to seal a breathless 4-3 win over AFC Bournemouth.
The Whites couldn’t have hoped for a greater begin, with Marcos Senesi bringing down the electrical Crysencio Summerville within the field with simply three minutes on the clock, earlier than Rodrigo despatched Mark Travers the unsuitable manner from the spot to offer the house facet the lead.
However, the Cherries fought again in astonishing trend, with Marcus Tavernier drawing the guests stage simply 4 minutes later, earlier than Philip Billing fired Gary O’Neil’s facet forward on the 19-minute mark, with Bournemouth occurring to dominate the rest of the primary 45.
When Dominic Solanke made it 3-1 shortly after the break, Leeds supporters would have been forgiven for considering their facet had been staring down the barrel of a fifth defeat in six matches.
This was to not be the case, with second-half substitute Sam Greenwood curling a magnificence past Travers with an hour gone, earlier than Greenwood turned supplier for the equaliser, with Liam Cooper heading residence the 20-year-old’s nook with 20 minutes left to play.
Leeds weren’t completed there, with one other of Marsch’s second-half substitutes in Wilfried Gnonto bursting forwards and enjoying in Summerville. Just like at Anfield final weekend, the Dutchman proved to be the Whites’ match-winner, with the winger coolly slotting residence within the 84th minute to seal a comeback which is able to reside lengthy within the reminiscence.
However, regardless of the thrilling victory, Marsch will nonetheless be dissatisfied with a variety of his gamers’ performances within the first half, with Marc Roca and Robin Koch each having games to forget in opposition to the Cherries.
It was but once more the show of Jack Harrison, although, which would be the supervisor’s greatest trigger for concern from Saturday, with the winger as soon as extra failing to make any influence on the match in anyway.
Indeed, over his 45 minutes on the pitch, the £23m-rated attacker supplied the Whites little or no going forwards, having 37 touches of the ball, finishing simply 19 of his 28 tried passes (a 68% success price) taking no photographs on the Bournemouth objective and dropping possession 13 instances, that means that the winger misplaced the ball with each 2.8 touches.
These returns not solely meant that the £60k-per-week large man averaged a below-par SofaScore match score of 6.8 but in addition noticed him lengthen his run of video games with no objective or help to 10.
As such, with a lot thrilling attacking expertise at present breaking into the primary crew, one more disappointing show in opposition to Bournemouth may have carried out Harrison’s probabilities of retaining his spot in Marsch’s beginning XI no good in anyway, with the winger as soon as once more failing Marsch’s belief on Saturday afternoon.
