An unexpected point limited by self-inflicted pain
This was a tale of three penalties. If Leeds United score their own and don’t give away the other two, they’re marching into Sunday outside the relegation zone. Newcastle United seemed comfortable all afternoon and rarely looked stretched at the back, yet they needed two spot-kicks to breach Joel Robles’s goal. It was an odd afternoon and Sam Allardyce was right after the game when he said individual errors were the only thing between Leeds and a victory over the league’s third-best team.
While it can be easy in this spiralling season of misery to focus on the negatives and the two points dropped, even the grandest of Leeds optimists would have surely taken a point pre-match. This is a Champions League-chasing Newcastle with eight wins from their last 10 league games and a Whites side winless in six with seven victories all season.
