Leeds: Joseph failed his chance vs Bolton

Leeds United U21s suffered their first defeat of the season on Wednesday night, with Bolton Wanderers operating out 3-0 winners on the College of Bolton Stadium within the Papa John’s Trophy assembly.

And, whereas a loss to a staff who sit seventh in League One is in no way a catastrophe for Michael Skubala’s aspect – particularly with out the likes of Joe Gelhardt and Sam Greenwood within the squad – after scoring 30 goals over their eight fixtures in 2022/23 previous to final night time, the Whites’ failure to create and put away alternatives in opposition to the Trotters could fear the 39-year-old coach.

Certainly, over the course of the 90 minutes in Higher Manchester, Leeds created a mere one massive probability and hit the goal with simply three of their 14 photographs at purpose, with the entrance three of Sonny Perkins, Sean McGurk and Mateo Joseph all failing to make any actual influence throughout the match.

Nonetheless, it’ll undoubtedly be the latter of this attacking trio most dissatisfied along with his efficiency on Wednesday night time, as, with out the likes of Gelhardt and Greenwood within the aspect, Joseph largely did not show to onlookers that he might be able to make the step as much as first-team soccer.

Certainly, the 19-year-old provided his aspect little or no going forwards, having fun with simply 27 touches of the ball – the fewest of any of the Leeds starters – lacking the goal along with his one try at purpose and failing to finish any of his three tried dribbles.

The centre-forward additionally accomplished simply eight of his 13 tried passes – successful price of 62% – gave away possession on 13 separate events – that means he misplaced the ball with each two touches he had – and misplaced seven of his eight duels – a failure price of 87.5%.

These returns noticed Yorkshire Night Submit journalist Joe Donnohue award the attacker a six in his participant rankings, earlier than including of the teenager’s show: “Minimize a annoyed determine, Joseph was marshalled for almost all of the sport after beginning brightly.”

As such, whereas it’s simple that the nine-goal striker is an especially gifted younger participant, if a fixture in opposition to a powerful League One outfit was Joseph’s massive probability to impress Jesse Marsch and his first-team coaches, sadly for the Spaniard, it’s clear to see he properly and actually failed this check.