YEP Jury: ‘Strength rather than creativity’ was key to Leeds United’s victory at Robins

Leeds United's Luke Ayling battles with Bristol City's Antoine Semenyo.
Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe. — Leeds United's Luke Ayling battles with Bristol City's Antoine Semenyo. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Our fans’ panel have their say on Leeds United’s 1-0 victory at Bristol City.

DAVID WATKINS

Never has a second half gone so slowly for me but we got there in the end and deservedly so, with Bristol City not offering anything like the quality I expected.

It was another dominant performance from Leeds with 16 attempts to the home side’s 4 but, as so often, our final touch let us down and the game went to the wire with finger nails bitten to the quick.

Leeds United's Gjanni Alioski battles with Bristol City's Callum O'Dowda.

Another early goal was just what we needed with Sheffield United having already won their home game with Rotherham in the lunchtime fixture and Norwich winning theirs the previous night. With a bit more composure in front of goal we could have had the game wrapped up by half-time. It wasn’t to be and chances came and went while Bristol could easily have stolen a point had it not been for the quick thinking of Kiko Casilla on a couple of occasions.

Ten cup finals left and the next one is at Reading tomorrow. The Royals are fighting for their lives and we don’t have a great record there, so no doubt it will be another nervy evening!

Man of the match: Luke Ayling.

MATTHEW EVANS

Leeds United's players thank the fans at full time at Bristil City.

A deserved win at Bristol City coupled with the dropped points from teams immediately below us means that it’s looking increasingly like a three-horse race for automatic promotion.

At a certain point in the first half there appeared to be the chance that we could run away with the game like we had against West Brom the previous week.