Several Leeds player’s expressed their delight at yesterday’s victory over Barnsley. The 2-1 result was their fifth league win in six league outings.
This was the first game that either team had played since the sacking of Barnsley assistant manager, Tommy Wright, following his role in the bribery allegations surrounding football. Allegations that also involve Leeds owner, Massimo Cellino.
Yesterday’s encounter began fairly evenly and the watching crowd had to wait 36 minutes for he games opening goal. Kyle Bartley met a well-taken corner from Pablo Hernandez to fire in from close range.
The provider turned waster for the next big opportunity of the game, firing wide from inside the 18-yard-box
Hernandez, himself, doubled the advantage after 56 minutes. Beating the uncertain Barnsley offside trap and deceiving Davies before curling the ball beyond him.
Barnsley replied in the 70th minute, through an own goal from Leeds defender, Charlie Taylor, setting up a nervous last 20 minutes for the hosts.
Leeds rode their luck towards the end and a fine save from well-travelled keeper, Rob Green was enough to prevent a volley from Conor Hourihane. Pontus Jansoon also saved his team in the dying stages, blocking Josh Scowens well-directed shot off the line.
Leeds were visibly delighted with the result and both players and management reacted to the victory that saw them climb to eleventh, one place behind opponents Barnsley in the league table.
Manager Garry Monk was full of praise post match and took to Twitter to outline his thoughts:
Glad to get a deserved win going into the international break. We now need to use the coming days to keep on improving. #MOT pic.twitter.com/uC2KXrK9LA
— Garry Monk (@GarryMonk) October 1, 2016
Next it was the turn of the players to react and they again, used Twitter as their method of interaction. Here are a selection of the player’s after-match tweets:
Get in, great way to finish off before an international break. What an atmosphere!#MOT
— Eunan O'Kane (@eunan10) October 1, 2016
Solid performance and another 3 points to end a great month for us! let's keep it like this!! Thanks to all the fans who came today👍👍 #LUFC
— Hadi Sacko (@miimosaa) October 1, 2016
https://twitter.com/PJansson5/status/782271142899884033
Another great win at Elland Road the place was rocking today!! #MOT
— Luke Ayling (@lukeayling_8) October 1, 2016
Great win today and a perfect end of this month..Thanks for the great support, the atmosphere on elland road today was just amazing👏🏻🙏🏼 #MOT
— Marcus Antonsson (@AntonssonMarcus) October 1, 2016