Leeds United kicked off their Championship campaign with a chaotic 3-3 draw against Portsmouth but Daniel Farke wasn’t happy with one of his players.
Having missed out on promotion last year in heartbreaking fashion at Wembley, Leeds will be hoping it’s second time lucky this season.
It’s not been the easiest of summers and the club have lost key players in Archie Gray and Crysencio Summerville, whilst Wilfried Gnonto has also attracted interest from the Premier League and Leeds will be desperate not to lose anymore of their key players.
Farke not impressed with Piroe’s performance
It could have been a lot worse for Leeds and they required a 95th equaliser from Brenden Aaronson to rescue a point and ensure they didn’t get off to a losing start.
Despite losing Summerville and Gray, Leeds do still have plenty of quality in their side, but Farke was left unimpressed by the performance of Piroe who came on as a second half substitute.
The former Swansea man is a proven goalscorer at Championship level and Farke felt the striker tried to do too much when he came on.
“Our game was not great after the changes. Over-motivated maybe to show in this 25 minutes every player wanted to show their worth. Mistakes across the whole squad,” he told Leeds Live.
“Quite normal at 2-2 after 75 and you have missed chances, perhaps some lads get tired. Natural feeling you get that nervous. Brenden had mistakes. Joel trying to prove his worth too much. Difficult to say.”
Piroe joined Leeds last summer from Swansea and scored 13 goals in 45 Championship appearances having scored 19 the season before for the Swans.
Leeds will certainly be looking to Piroe for a better return this season as they look to secure promotion back to the Premier League.
Which match were you watching? Aaronson’s goal wasn’t a penalty!!!!
Hahaha.
I thought that as well
Where does it say his goal was a penalty? I cannot see the word penalty anywhere in the article
That’s because it’s now been edited to read “equaliser” instead of the original post of “penalty”.
If he was unimpressed with Piroe but not with Bogle and Meslier, he was probably not watching the game.
Leeds looked goal shy, its harder to hit the crossbar than the whole goal, more shot practise required plus a new number nine or we can kiss promotion goodbye, all these players we are interested in but no one walks through the door, management must have a large part of the sales money in the bank, spend some of it on a number nine and stop messing about with these men who cant score