Impacts may have to keep coming from the bench for Wilfried Gnonto at Leeds United. The Italian forward, one of the few players to have consistently impressed this season, has been left out of Javi Gracia’s last two starting line-ups.
Gnonto may only have two goals and two assists from 15 Premier League appearances, but what the statistics do not show is the lift he brings to the matches he plays. Time and time again the teenager has cut inside from that left flank, dribbled past defenders and caused carnage in the final third.
The teenager’s first touch, strength, agility and technique have been on another level to so many others in Leeds colours since his debut at Anfield in October. And yet Gracia has seen fit to leave Gnonto on the bench against Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion.
