Although Leeds were denied all three points by a Fulham goal in the 95th minute, our head coach has told LUTV he is proud of the performance.

Luke Ayling remained in Leeds for the birth of his child, but the return of Charlie Taylor allowed Beradi to move back to right back in his place. Leeds were also missing Chris Wood through injury, but after only three minutes Ream was kind enough to make up for the absence of our leading scorer by slicing into his own net, as he attempted to clear a quickly taken Kyle Bartley free kick.

For the rest of the first half the home side were in control, and were unlucky not to equalise when from Kebano seemed to cross the line before bouncing clear, so perhaps we could be thankful we don’t have goal-line technology in the Championship.

After the break we seemed a little more composed as we soaked up the pressure and tried to catch them on the break, and Pedraza should have made the game safe with a shot that came back off the post. But as we came up to 90 minutes Kalvin Phillips picked up a second yellow card for a tackle that looked hard but fair. The referee had Scott Parker in his face trying to get our man sent off, and it worked.

And with several minutes added on for the amount of time it took to get that incident sorted out, our defence was finally breached by a fierce shot from Crainey from outside the box. So Fulham remain eight points behind us in seventh with a game in hand, and we narrowly failed to extend that gap by a further three points that would have just about sewn up our place in the play-offs.

Garry Monk said “It was a harsh feeling to not get the three points in the dying seconds, but that is football. I am proud of the players, I thought they were fantastic, we delivered a game plan and a good performance, overall it is a fantastic point and something we can all be proud of. Barring a very good strike from Fulham, we would have had the perfect result and game plan, but it is another point to help us get to where we want to go.”

“The performance is what you take out of this game and credit to my players, if we continue in this way, keep showing this desire, determination and quality, then this group can do whatever they want to do. Fulham have been free-scoring at home, but we defended excellently and limited them to pressure.”

“We had chances ourselves, Alfonso Pedraza’s effort came back of the post and if we had have scored that it might have sealed the game for us, but I can’t complain. From where we were Kalvin Phillips’ tackle looked good, but we will have to look at it again, it doesn’t take away from the performance and Kalvin himself was included in that. Our support here tonight was fantastic, they pushed the team on and I think they enjoyed our performance as well.”

We’ll have to compensate by beating another west London mob on Saturday, and thankfully Wood and Ayling are both likely to be back for the visit of QPR.

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