For the sixth time in their history, they suffered heartache in the play-offs, so this feeling should, unfortunately, be all too familiar for the Elland Road faithful. ‘s latest heartache will probably hurt the most because they earned 90 points – the most any team has won without winning promotion. One big issue fans have with their players is that, on such a huge occasion and their biggest game of the season, they didn’t turn up, .
Neil Warnock was pretty forthright after the match and how he felt the Leeds players might have ‘believed in their own publicity’ heading into the game, as he told (26/05/24 at 5:50 pm). But he was rightfully critical of the way played and the lack of attacking threat they brought to the table. One man who Warnock was keen to mention, who didn’t play because of injury, was one and how he could have made a difference.
The 30-year-old missed the start of the campaign through injury and that’s how he also ended it, as he just wasn’t able to be fit enough for the showpiece event at the home of football. But Warnock was certain that if Bamford was on the pitch, then his ‘know-how’ would have helped, with Leeds providing little service to their forward players and Joel Piroe struggling overall. Patrick Bamford misses Leeds United’s play-off final defeat “They probably read too many papers in the last few weeks, since the semi-final because they were so good, but Norwich were so poor, weren’t they?” said Warnock.
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