Leeds United player ratings as lowest marks go to players who most needed to shine
Leeds United are the only Yorkshire team in the fifth round of the FA Cup but they made heavy weather of it at Birmingham City.
Daniel Farke’s men were taken to a penalty shoot-out by the Championship side, who had the better of the 1-1 draw over 120 minutes. They came through 4-2 on spot kicks.
Leeds took the opportunity to rest key players from their XI but ended up having to bring many on with the players given their chance failing to take it.
Lucas Perri – an excellent save onto the post during the game, and kept out Tommy Doyle's spot kick too 8
James Justin – a lot of chances came down his side – all wasted by Ibrahim Osman 5
Jaka Bijol – stood up well when too many team-mates were found wanting 7
Sebastiaan Bornauw – particularly in the first half, kept positioning himself in just the right places to make interceptions 7
Gabriel Gudmundsson – did not offer too much going forward but did his day job 6
Ao Tanaka – disappointing in midfield 5
Sean Longstaff – gets a mark for scoring his penalty but his overall performance was poor 6
Willy Gnonto – yet another who failed to take his opportunity 5
Facundo Buonanotte – given the chance to stake his claim, he produced a really poor performance 4
Noah Okafor – involved in the goal, looked like he went off with a hamstring problem 6
Lukas Nmecha – excellent goal, not that much else 7
Substitutes:
Ethan Ampadu (for Buonanotte, HT) – lifted Leeds' performance a couple of notches 8
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (for Nmecha, 68) – Leeds were more effective when they could play long to him, scored his penalty 7
Brenden Aaronson (for Gnonto, 68) – provided lots of energy, as you would expect; scored his penalty 6
Joel Piroe (for Tanaka, 78) – pedestrian when the ball came to him but he did score from 12 yards 5
Jayden Bogle (for Okafor, 81) – did a good job as a right-winger 6
Joe Rodon (for Bornauw, FT) – created a chance with a header 6
Not used: Darlow, Byram, Gruev.