Handed the task of untwining what was left by Marcelo Bielsa and Jesse Marsch, Javi Gracia briefly looked the man to arrest Leeds’s decline, only for his team to concede a familiar deluge of goals. Letting in 18 goals over five games in April for a return of three points may soon be enough to send him the same way as his predecessors.
Two highly preventable Fulham goals, goalkeeping errors from Illan Meslier handing Harry Wilson and Andreas Pereira their prizes, left Leeds with a nervous weekend watch of their relegation rivals’s fortunes. Until a late flurry, they looked incapable of stopping the rot.
