Leeds: Harrison failed Marsch vs Cherries

Leeds United took half in a spectacular Premier League fixture on Saturday afternoon, with Jesse Marsch’s aspect coming from two targets right down to seal a breathless 4-3 win over AFC Bournemouth.

The Whites couldn’t have hoped for a greater begin, with Marcos Senesi bringing down the electrical Crysencio Summerville within the field with simply three minutes on the clock, earlier than Rodrigo despatched Mark Travers the mistaken manner from the spot to provide the house aspect the lead.

Nonetheless, the Cherries fought again in astonishing style, with Marcus Tavernier drawing the guests degree simply 4 minutes later, earlier than Philip Billing fired Gary O’Neil’s aspect forward on the 19-minute mark, with Bournemouth occurring to dominate the rest of the primary 45.

When Dominic Solanke made it 3-1 shortly after the break, Leeds supporters would have been forgiven for considering their aspect had been staring down the barrel of a fifth defeat in six matches.

This was to not be the case, with second-half substitute Sam Greenwood curling a magnificence past Travers with an hour gone, earlier than Greenwood turned supplier for the equaliser, with Liam Cooper heading residence the 20-year-old’s nook with 20 minutes left to play.

Leeds weren’t completed there, with one other of Marsch’s second-half substitutes in Wilfried Gnonto bursting forwards and taking part in in Summerville. Similar to at Anfield final weekend, the Dutchman proved to be the Whites’ match-winner, with the winger coolly slotting residence within the 84th minute to seal a comeback which can dwell lengthy within the reminiscence.

Nonetheless, regardless of the thrilling victory, Marsch will however be dissatisfied with quite a few his gamers’ performances within the first half, with Marc Roca and Robin Koch each having games to forget in opposition to the Cherries.

It was but once more the show of Jack Harrison, although, which would be the supervisor’s greatest trigger for concern from Saturday, with the winger as soon as extra failing to make any influence on the match in any respect.

Certainly, over his 45 minutes on the pitch, the £23m-rated attacker provided the Whites little or no going forwards, having 37 touches of the ball, finishing simply 19 of his 28 tried passes (a 68% success fee) taking no pictures on the Bournemouth purpose and shedding possession 13 instances, that means that the winger misplaced the ball with each 2.8 touches.

These returns not solely meant that the £60k-per-week extensive man averaged a below-par SofaScore match score of 6.8 but in addition noticed him lengthen his run of video games and not using a purpose or help to 10.

As such, with a lot thrilling attacking expertise at present breaking into the primary crew, yet one more disappointing show in opposition to Bournemouth could have finished Harrison’s possibilities of retaining his spot in Marsch’s beginning XI no good in any respect, with the winger as soon as once more failing Marsch’s belief on Saturday afternoon.