It’s fair to assume Weston McKennie had hoped for a brighter and more upbeat experience on his Leeds United debut. The American was named on the bench on Sunday afternoon against Nottingham Forest at the City Ground after completing his move from Juventus earlier in the week and the Whites were 1-0 down by the time Jesse Marsch looked his way.
Leeds were already looking desperately short of ideas of how to unlock their hosts’ resolute, rigid and determined backline and frustration was growing as every uneventful minute ticked by. As such, Marsch looked to his bench to change things and threw McKennie onto the field in the 57th minute.
The midfielder’s introduction, though, did little to change the pattern of the match as Leeds continued to control possession without producing an end product. It wasn’t McKennie’s fault that Leeds failed to effectively penetrate in the second half of the contest, far from it, as the creative talents ahead of him on the field, such as Jack Harrison, Crysencio Summerville and Patrick Bamford, struggled to find any success.
