A first ever visit to Whaddon Road for Leeds United who started brightly with three good chances in the first nine minutes against rock bottom Cheltenham Town.
Chances continued to come as United dominated play throughout the first half but they just could not get the ball into the net.
The second half started in the same way with two shots from Jermaine Beckford in the first five minutes. The Robins followed that with two chances but the Whites were still dominating play. A less than effective first half performance by Seb Carole did not improve in the second half and the normally useful player was replaced by Ian Westlake nine minutes after the re-start.
Fifteen good chances by Leeds went astray in the first 70 minutes to Cheltenham's four. David Prutton was replaced by Torre Andre Flo and Mark De Vries came on for Ben Parker as Dennis Wise tried to break the deadlock with four strikers.
Three minutes later Beckford had the ball in the net but was flagged offside.
United could not score and with goalkeeper David Lucas just recovering from and injured shoulder the Robins nipped in front with a well taken goal by Stephen Gillespe from 30 yards.
Leeds simply dominated this match but failed to score. With a 10 day break now without a game they need to use the time working out why we have lost three out of the last four games and find a way of putting it right.
Cheltenham Town 1 Leeds United 0
2 comments:
Drawing was bad enough but to lose to this shower !!!!!
ian
Our 'ability' to score in the last few minutes seems to have not only deserted us, but has been taken up by our opponents.
Actually scoring at ANY time has deserted us !
And to suffer a lobbed goal from 30 yds is hard to take.
Thanks again for the report.
Ian
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