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1¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in KAMARA knocking a low shot wide. 3¹ DÍAZ shot wide. 4¹ A drive from GAKPO seemed a certain goal but the Leeds United 'keeper managed to parry the ball clear. 4¹ DUMFRIES kicked the ball wide of the lefthand post from just outside the area. 5¹ KVARATSKHELIA worked the ball to KAMARA, GAKPO latched onto his cross and hoofed the ball within easy reach of NÜBEL. 10¹ GAKPO beat a number of Leeds United players and fired a shot wide. 14¹ GOAL!! A beautiful outswinging corner was nodded in at the near post by THURAM. (1-0 Leeds United) 16¹ A wonderful save prevented BENTANCUR from scoring a great goal. 17¹ A free-kick from KAMARA went inches over. 19¹ A weak strike from DÍAZ rolled agonisingly wide. 21¹ GOAL!! A Southampton counter-attack allowed GAKPO to setup GVARDIOL with an easy goal. (1-1) 31¹ A header from KVARATSKHELIA was hoofed off the line by AZPILICUETA. 37¹ GAKPO's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Leeds United crossbar. 48¹ A lovely cross from LOOKMAN was blasted goalbound by GIROUD only for the Southampton 'keeper to palm clear. 2² GOAL!! A deep cross by KAMARA was met by GVARDIOL who stormed in to score. (2-1 Southampton) 18² GAKPO brought the ball round THURAM and flicked a tame shot over. 23² The 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing strike from DÍAZ. 25² The stunned 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from AZPILICUETA fell just over. 27² LOOKMAN beat KVARATSKHELIA and fired the ball to NWANERI who blasted his shot wide. 33² A header by LOOKMAN at the near post was comfortably collected by the Southampton 'keeper. 36² A strike from GVARDIOL held little difficulty for NÜBEL. 38² POPE saved a glorious effort from SAÚL. 45² GIROUD booked. 46² A cross from DOUGLAS LUIZ left GABRIEL in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot. 47² KONATÉ drove a right foot shot over the bar from twenty-five yards out.

Leeds United   League position: - Home league form: LLW- Overall league form: XLLLW--- Formation: 3-5-2

Line-ups Alexander NÜBEL 6½ 1 7  Nick POPE Denzel DUMFRIES 7½ 2 6½ Lutsharel GEERTRUIDA Cesar AZPILICUETA 6½ 3 8  Josko GVARDIOL Ivan RAKITIC 7  4 6½ Boubacar KAMARA Alessandro BASTONI 6  5 7½ Dayot UPAMECANO (c)Ethan NWANERI 6½ 6 6  GABRIEL dos Santos Ademola LOOKMAN 6½ 7 7  Luis DÍAZ Marcus THURAM 7½ 8 6½ DOUGLAS LUIZ Soares (p,f)SAÚL Ñíguez 6  9 7  Cody GAKPO(c,p) Olivier GIROUD 6½ 10 6½ Christopher NKUNKU Rodrigo BENTANCUR 6½ 11 6  Khvicha KVARATSKHELIA(f) Sam Ashby Manager Ben Stevenson Giovanni DI LORENZO    12    Santiago GIMÉNEZ Guillaume RESTES    13    Tommy SETFORD Alessandro BUONGIORNO    14 6  Ibrahima KONATÉ Chrislain MATSIMA    15    Charles DE KETELAERE Siriné DOUCOURÉ    16    Malo GUSTO

Southampton   League position: 3 Away league form: LWL- Overall league form: WLWWLW-- Formation: 4-2-3-1

Statistics

Leeds United 1 Southampton 2 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 37,791, Stadium: Elland Road, Referee: Mark Haywood 7½) Thuram 14¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Gvardiol 21¹, Gvardiol 2²   NkunkuóKonaté 10²     Giroud 45²   6 2 12 16 5 3 5 8 2 9 7 17 3 4 50% 50% ¶ Man of the match: Josko Gvardiol ¶