Leeds United are yet to receive a red card this season as Daniel Farke looks to get his side promoted back to the Premier League, but a player owned by Leeds has seen red this weekend.
A third Championship win of the season saw Leeds win back a place in the top six in the Championship table. The 2-0 win over Cardiff is likely to be one of the easiest victories of the entire 2024-25 season.
Largely, because of Joel Bagan’s red card on 23 minutes but also because of the way Leeds stifled their opponents and kept the ball. More goals were deserved but for some incredibly wasteful finishing.
Daniel Farke bemoaned Leeds’ poor finishing in his post-match press conference. The win sees Leeds go within a point of fourth-placed Blackburn Rovers, who were in action in the Championship on Sunday.
They took on Preston North End in front of the Sky Sports cameras, and it saw the meeting of a current Leeds player and a former one in the middle of the park as Paul Heckingbottom eyed a win.
Leeds man Sam Greenwood receives red card as Preston draw
Greenwood, 22, started his third Championship game in a row for Preston on Sunday afternoon as Heckingbottom’s side took on Blackburn in a Lancashire derby at Deepdale, the game ending 0-0.
But the £3m Leeds signing didn’t make it to half-time. The former Arsenal and Sunderland academy ace was shown a straight red card for a lunge on Blackburn midfielder Lewis Baker, who went off at half-time.
Baker was in some considerable pain from the challenge by Greenwood. Sky Sports posted a clip of the tackle on their X account, with those of a Preston persuasion clearly shocked by the referee’s decision.
Lewis Baker’s career since poor Leeds spell under Marcelo Bielsa
In Bielsa’s first summer at Leeds, the 17-time England U21 man joined on a season-long loan from Chelsea but he struggled to make an impression despite clocking up 14 appearances for Bielsa’s Leeds.
He was recalled by Chelsea and went to Reading that January, before a loan to Ao Tanaka’s old side Dusseldorf and then Trabzonspor. He joined Stoke City permanently in 2022 and remains a Stoke player.
But like Greenwood, he was sent on loan in the summer to a Championship rival, joining John Eustace’s Blackburn. For a player who has been around for so long, it will be a surprise to many he’s still only 29.
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