Sunday, January 06, 2008

Leeds United 3-0 Northampton Town




The Cobblers were comfortably beaten at Elland Road as Leeds United dominated Stuart Gray’s side and showed their class as goals from Frazer Richardson, Rui Marques and Curtis Weston sealed the win.

It was a strangely quick journey up from Southampton to Leeds despite it being a five hour trek north and after a late night on Friday it was nice to drift in and out of sleep without any train changes. The comfortable journey to Elland Road continued upon arrival in Leeds as I was immediately pointed in the right direction of the football special buses and boarded one of them to be met by a bus full of Leeds fans and not a single Cobbler!

It was quite surreal standing outside Elland Road and knowing that we were playing a league game there. On the day of the F.A. Cup Third Round it had all the makings of a cup tie and Northampton Town facing a big team in Round Three. Unfortunately that’s how it remained through the game as well as we were totally outclassed.

A pre-match pint in the cramped bar under the stand was enjoyed before we took our seats in the lower tier of the Cobblers fans’ base, tucked away in the corner of Elland Road and with loud section of home fans to our left.

Giles Coke and Ian Henderson were surprise names on the team sheet as they both made the bench following injury problems. The Cobblers started with Colin Larkin and Dean Bowditch helping out a five man wall of a midfield and Andy Kirk playing the lone striker. Poul Hubertz and Daniel Jones missed out through suspension.

From the off, Leeds were on the front foot and the lively Jermaine Beckford hit a shot from range that Mark Hughes did well to block. Beckford was again in the thick of the action minutes later as he broke free from his marker and looked all the way like he was going to put the home side in front but Mark Bunn got down low to block the shot. Tore Andre Flo followed up but Brett Johnson got back to clear the ball off the line.

In a rare attack for the Cobblers, Colin Larkin got free on the right and put in a low cross but Leeds keeper Casper Ankergren parried the ball to safety. We were holding on pretty well at the back and looked organised as half time approached but just before the break fell behind.

Frazer Richardson broke from the back and was given far too much time to pick his spot from long range and hit a right footed shot that sailed past Bunn and gave Leeds the advantage going into half time.

As the second half got going it was more of the same and Leeds soon doubled their advantage. A left sided corner was swung deep for the advancing Andrew Hughes who volleyed the ball back across goal for Rui Marques to deflect in with a good reaction header.

If we were up against it at 1-0, it was virtually game over at 2-0 but we did at least have a couple of chances to get into the game. Chances in a game like that are few and far between and must be taken when they arrive so we knew it wasn’t go to be our day when our best chance was headed over by Mark Hughes. Ian Henderson and Giles Coke, finally making his first appearance for the club, came off the bench and Henderson hit a good effort wide from a Dean Bowditch cross but that was as good as it got for the Cobblers.

Beckford almost got his second with around fifteen minutes to go with a free kick to crashed against the cross bar before Andy Holt broke clear and had a shot deflected wide late on.

But Leeds extended their lead in stoppage time as substitute Curtis Weston shrugged off the challenge of Hughes and finished left footed past Bunn to seal an impressive win and stop their recent run of defeats in style.

For the Cobblers we were simply outplayed and Leeds are a different class to us, which was apparent from the off. Simple things like giving the ball away shouldn’t be happening against any side but chances really have to be taken in a game where we’re not getting many. Hubertz was missed, as was the width that Daniel Jones creates on the left but all in all we just didn’t have anything to match Leeds.

The journey home dragged on as someone had apparently “stolen a cable” from the rail tracks further down the line. Who would want to steal a cable is beyond me but it meant that the journey was delayed and I got home at around midnight, some six hours after leaving Leeds station!

At least it was another ground chalked off the list and something tells me I won’t be getting another chance to visit Elland Road any time in the near future!

19 comments:

mdw said...

Hi Danny

You're a true footy fan mate. I've mentioned your trip to Elland Road and your match review on my Leeds United Blog.

Cheers

Dave

http://leeds--united.blogspot.com/

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