Championship

LEEDS STUTTER ON BIG OCCASION

by
The LeaguePaper Team
3 February 2019

Match Verdict

STAR MAN MARCO STIEPERMANN Norwich City

ELLAND Road rocked. This was an atmosphere more than worthy of the Premier League.
On this evidence, however, only one of the teams on the pitch could say the same – and it wasn’t the bedraggled rabble in white shirts.
From the outset, there was a desperation about Leeds. Too frantic, too eager. Rarely can a team so patently have played the occasion instead of the game. Norwich, so impressive under Daniel Farke, could not have been more different. The Canaries had actually surrendered their place in the top two an hour ...

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