The FA Cup never fails to surprise and today it saw League 2 Newport County knock out Championship side Leeds United.
Leeds united took the lead early in the first half of the FA Cup clash and apart from the odd chance after, they never looked like scoring a second. Newport did have their chances across the game but were not threatening until Shaughnessy’s own goal in the 76th minute. After that, it was obvious that the momentum was with Newport and they threatened Leeds who eventually crumbled when McCoulsky headed home in the 89th minute.
The travelling fans will be disappointed after their early morning start, as always Leeds took to twitter to voice their anger.
A shambles this last spell has been. Corner swung in, McClousky has a free header from point blank range. A wardrobe would score that. 2-1 on 90 mins. #lufc
— Phil Hay (@PhilHay_) January 7, 2018
Phil Hay always seems to have it spot on with anything Leeds United.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh 🙇🏼♂️ #lufc
— George Wigzell (@georgewigzell) January 7, 2018
You don’t need a lot of words to sum up that game.
Good to see @LUFC do a tactical loss so we can concentrate on the league. 🚬👀#lufc
— Samuel Broadbent (@svm_broadbent) January 7, 2018
Great thinking Leeds…
Hey @andrearadri do we have the receipt available for Jay Roy Grot orrrrrr? #lufc
— Jack Pearson (@JackTPearson) January 7, 2018
Jay Roy Grot still fails to impress the Leeds United faithful.
Genuinely gutted for Berardi. No one will hurt more after this defeat than Gaetano. His teammates have let him down big time. #LUFC
— LUFCDATA (@LUFCDATA) January 7, 2018
One positive from this game is the Berardi goal, shame it now means nothing…
It's rare for me to be overly critical about players of #LUFC and I can understand TC resting players but that was a terrible from every player. It highlights the lack of depth we have in the squad and demonstrates the total lack of quality up front! PML and JRG were donkeys!
— MCC1 (@1amcc) January 7, 2018
Did Christiansen rest too many though?
That team chosen by TC and the performance takes the piss out of us Leeds fans, as Monk did last year. Respect the Cup and the fans, TC.#lufc
— Andy McVeigh (@pantsdanny) January 7, 2018
I take it Christiansen didn’t get the memo about the cup of upsets?
https://twitter.com/Levilufc/status/950007800645734400
A GIF always works well with Leeds.
Now that United are out of the FA cup, their attention will now turn their attention to the league and hope to climb the table before the curtains fall later this year in may.
This is definitely a moment to forget for Leeds but I’m sure Newport fans will not forget about this one for a long time. Credit to County for showing their determination after the equaliser to push forward and get the winning goal late on.
