'For a long time' - Leeds United fans on Whites 'proof', bargain and 'special' player display

By YEP Sport
Published 25th Sep 2023, 07:00 BST
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Leeds United’s first home league win of the season arrived in style against Saturday’s visitors Watford, much to the delight of the club’s supporters.

Here is what our YEP Jury had to say on the 3-0 success against the Hornets including Whites ‘proof’, a bargain, a void filled and a ‘special’ player display.

NEIL GREWER

A great day to be a Leeds United supporter. An excellent overall team performance topped off by some outrageous control of a ball dropping from the heavens by Daniel Farke.

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'DELIGHT TO WATCH': Leeds United's Georginio Rutter, pictured escaping Watford's Francisco Sierralta and Edo Kayembe in Saturday's 3-0 Championship victory at Elland Road. Picture by Bruce Rollinson.'DELIGHT TO WATCH': Leeds United's Georginio Rutter, pictured escaping Watford's Francisco Sierralta and Edo Kayembe in Saturday's 3-0 Championship victory at Elland Road. Picture by Bruce Rollinson.
'DELIGHT TO WATCH': Leeds United's Georginio Rutter, pictured escaping Watford's Francisco Sierralta and Edo Kayembe in Saturday's 3-0 Championship victory at Elland Road. Picture by Bruce Rollinson.

Watford offered no real threat until mustering a shot in added time well saved by Illan Meslier – the only save he was required to make. Ethan Ampadu and Glen Kamara controlled the midfield and enabled Leeds to completely dominate.

Ampadu is proving a bargain at £7m and has erased all thoughts of Tyler Adams. And Sam Byram at left-back – what an inspired piece of business that was – he looks like the best left-back we have had for a long time.

In attack, Georginio Rutter was a breath of fresh air – holding the ball up well, turning, running powerfully with some lovely bits of skill to entertain the crowd – he clearly really enjoyed himself and he was a delight to watch.

Daniel Farke is building something special – he has a committed, skilful squad which he can seemingly rotate with minimal impact on performance. Let’s not get carried away but Leeds were very good and choosing a man of the match was pleasingly difficult.

Man of the match: Georginio Rutter.

KEITH INGHAM

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At the end of a testing week, Leeds United sit very nicely in the top six after a confident and comfortable 3-0 win over Watford.

They will be very happy that as well as seven points gained they scored six goals and have now kept four consecutive clean sheets. Daniel Farke shuffled his pack with Sam Byram, Glen Kamara, Crysencio Summerville and Liam Cooper coming into the starting XI.

The first half was one-way traffic with Leeds putting Watford firmly on their collective back feet. How Leeds didn’t go into the break at least a goal up is down to poor finishing and a couple of excellent saves from the Watford keeper.

The second half was a Georginio Rutter ‘masterclass’ as he was involved in everything good that Leeds did. The goals came quickly. First, Dan James put in a cross that Joel Piroe put away superbly then Sam Byram got his head to a corner to make it 2-0. The third goal was just superb, Georginio got the ball in his own half, spun leaving defenders in his wake before supplying a wonderful ball to substitute Anthony who scored with ease.

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