Leeds United ended their unbeaten begin to the 2024/25 marketing campaign with a disappointing 1-0 defeat to Burnley at Elland Street within the Championship on Saturday.

Daniel Farke‘s facet had drawn towards Portsmouth and West Brom and crushed Sheffield Wednesday and Hull Metropolis of their first 4 matches of the season.

That run got here to an finish, nonetheless, as Luca Koleosho scored the one purpose of the sport within the first half, with a composed end into the underside proper nook after a slip from Manor Solomon on the different finish.

The Tottenham Hotspur loanee had an unlucky second for the purpose however he was not the worst participant on the pitch for Leeds, as the remainder of his efficiency was promising.

Manor Solomon’s recreation in numbers

Solomon misplaced his footing across the midway line to permit Koloesho to race by means of and rating previous Illan Meslier, with weak masking defending from his teammates.

Nonetheless, the winger had loads of constructive moments within the recreation and confirmed good touches and activates the ball to make issues occur for Leeds within the closing third.

The Spurs loanee created three possibilities and accomplished 86% of his possibilities, while finishing all three of his dribble makes an attempt, and this reveals that he was largely spectacular in his use of the ball.

He additionally received six of his seven duels on the bottom and made two tackles to assist out his group defensively, which reveals that the ahead was robust out of possession and labored arduous for the group.

In the meantime, Wilfried Gnonto, on the opposite flank, was the actual villain for the Whites along with his disappointing efficiency at Elland Street on Saturday.

Wilfried Gnonto’s efficiency towards Burnley

The Italy U21 worldwide struggled to make any affect on the high finish of the pitch and can absolutely be pissed off along with his lack of risk within the closing third.

Gnonto had one wonderful likelihood to search out the again of the online within the first half, after Brenden Aaronson slipped the ball by means of to him, however he did not beat James Trafford with a left-footed effort that hit the goalkeeper.

The Italian winger had three photographs in complete and failed to attain, lacking one ‘huge likelihood’, and in addition ended the match with zero key passes (possibilities created) to his title.

As you possibly can see within the desk above, the attacker endured a tough afternoon, shedding half of his duels and giving the ball away 16 occasions, with out making any actual contributions within the closing third.

Whereas, Solomon, regardless of his slip for the purpose, created three possibilities for his teammates and received the overwhelming majority of his duels to maintain maintain of the ball for Leeds.

These statistics present that Gnonto was even worse than the Spurs man and that it was a efficiency which will now go away Farke fascinated about whether or not he ought to stay within the beginning XI subsequent day out.