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Tyler Adams hails impact of Leeds United substitutes as Wilfried Gnonto makes competitive debut

Tyler Adams has hailed the impact of Leeds United's substitutes as the Whites picked up their first win at Anfield in over two decades. Jesse Marsch's side ended their torrid eight game winless streak and ended Liverpool's 29-game unbeaten run in the Premier League on home soil.

Leeds jumped out of the relegation zone with an unlikely three points and it was a real team performance. The Whites head coach gave Wilfried Gnonto his debut for Leeds and the Italian played a part in the winner.

For Adams, he believes the win will be a turning point in their season. He told LUFCTV: "Yeah, obviously a good result for the team. I mean, where we were at before coming into this game, we said we needed a turning point within our season and I think we got it today.

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"For the team in general, I think it's been a tough couple of months the past couple of months. We've tried hard to develop the team in the right way and taking nice steps forward, but we just haven't got the results, so today was a big one for us.

"We have a lot of self belief in our team, the manager has a lot of belief in all the players, obviously guys getting opportunities off the bench, making a big impact. Everybody played their best possible game tonight, I don't know how many subs we made but 14 or 15 good individual performances tonight to bring it all together.

"100 per cent [Leeds need to keep it going]. Consistency is the hardest thing to find in football and now we need to try and replicate that performance against every team in the league that we come up against. Next game we'll be at home at Elland Road so we're excited to go and try and replicate that."

Gnonto found himself surrounded by three Liverpool players on the left-hand side and was able to poke a cross through to find Patrick Bamford, with Crysencio Summerville notching the winner. The new arrival has been made to bide his time since arriving at Elland Road earlier this summer, but was finally handed some first team minutes by Marsch.

"Yeah of course," Gnonto said when asked about being pleased to make his debut. "I'm very happy this was my debut and we also won. This is the most important. I'm very happy for me, for the team, for everyone here and I hope this is just the first of many.

"It was really nice [to play at Anfield] it's one of the best stadiums in the world I can say. It's something I've always dreamed of and I'm very happy and very proud."

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