Leeds: Gnonto once again saved Marsch

Leeds United recorded back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time in 2022/23 in dramatic vogue on Saturday afternoon, with Jesse Marsch’s aspect operating out 4-3 winners over AFC Bournemouth at Elland Street.

In a match that was balanced on a pinhead for the size of the 90 minutes, the Whites in the end ran out victors because of objectives from Rodrigo, Sam Greenwood, Liam Cooper and Crysencio Summerville, regardless of being 3-1 down with half-hour left to play.

And, whereas the second-half introduction of Greenwood – who ended the fixture with each a aim and an help to his identify – undoubtedly modified the course of the sport for the American supervisor, it was as soon as once more the efficiency of Wilfried Gnonto that in the end sealed all three factors for Leeds on Saturday.

Certainly, over the course of his 45 minutes on the pitch, the £8.7m-rated ahead was a continuing thorn within the Cherries’ aspect, with three of his 5 accomplished passes being key, in addition to finishing considered one of his three tried crosses, making two tackles and creating one large likelihood for his teammates.

Nonetheless, undoubtedly the Italy worldwide’s most necessary contribution got here in his help for Summerville’s 84th-minute winner, when the 19-year-old picked up the ball in his personal half, earlier than driving on the Cherries’ defence and slipping an inch-perfect ball by to the Dutchman, who cooly slotted past Mark Travers.

This was an nearly good repeat of Summerville’s winner towards Liverpool final weekend, when Gnonto’s exhausting work on the left wing ended within the six-cap worldwide firing a cross into the field, which Patrick Bamford subsequently laid off to the 21-year-old who fired house the Whites’ late winner.

Nonetheless, relating to the show of the “wonderkid” towards Bournemouth, Gnonto earned a particularly spectacular SofaScore match score of 7.2, whereas Leeds Reside’s Beren Cross additionally awarded the £5m summer season signing an eight in his personal participant scores, in addition to stating of the ahead’s show:

“Every thing aside from a aim. Picked up the place he left off at Anfield. Tenacious, fast, snappy, robust, clever. The carry and help for the successful aim was excellent. Has to start out at Tottenham Hotspur subsequent weekend.”

As such, as Cross suggests, it might seem an absolute should for Marsch to start unleashing Gnonto from the off within the not-too-distant future, because the Italian sensation as soon as once more handed his first-team take a look at with flying colors on Saturday afternoon.