Leeds 2-1 Shrewsbury Town

Yorkshire Evening Post

Leeds United progress to the next round of the Carabao Cup where they will visit Salford City after coming from behind to defeat Shrewsbury Town at Elland Road

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00:00 Hello there, Lee Sobot at the Yorkshire Evening Post here from Elland Road where Leeds United

00:05 have bagged their first competitive victory under new boss Daniel Farke thanks to a 2-1

00:11 success against Shrewsbury Town in the Carabao Cup first round. That success has booked a

00:16 second round date at Salford City at the end of this month so lower league opposition again

00:21 for that one but in the end tonight it was job done. It didn't look that way after going

00:26 1-0 down, falling behind yet again like they did at the weekend, obviously went 2-0 down

00:29 against Cardiff and rescued a 2-2 draw. This one, Shrewsbury weren't really doing a right

00:35 lot, they basically scored from their own aerial attack apart from a save that Kyle

00:38 Darlow made from a long range strike. But that was 1-0, basically just sort of broken

00:45 down the left hand side, Leeds' left hand side, Darko J being able to get near enough

00:51 his man and then a deflected strike off Leo Helder into the back of the net past Kyle

00:54 Darlow who couldn't have done much about that one. Leeds have struggled to get going though

00:58 really in the first half, there was a lot of sideways and backwards passes and the crowd

01:01 were getting a bit angry and Leeds not being adventurous enough. I think the players were

01:05 looking for people further forward but just nothing really happening. Archie Gray played

01:09 at number 10 today, thought he did very, very well, especially after the break he dropped

01:14 a bit deeper and what a talent he looks at, 17 years of age. He had the best chance really

01:18 in the first half when he created an opening for himself and struck a shot over the bar.

01:22 A couple of changes at the break, both of them made a big impact, Pascal Stroot coming

01:25 on, he ended up scoring what proved the winning goal. Sam Barham came on at left back, he

01:29 again did well as well. Leeds eventually drew level, looked a different outfit in the second

01:32 half really through Joe Gelhart, bit of an instinctive finish following up an Ian Paveda

01:36 shot. Paveda was very, very lively indeed tonight. And then Pascal Stroot, of all people,

01:40 popping up with a winner. If you need a goal, call Pascal Stroot, eh? There he was in the

01:44 box with a sort of no-nonsense, almost striker's finish really at the far post after Ethan

01:48 Empadu had sort of helped on a corner. That was 2-1, they had further chances, Leeds.

01:53 Sinisterra looked very lively when he came on right at the death, had a couple of chances

01:56 and should have made it a third or a fourth but wasn't able to do so. But in the end it

02:00 was job done. But like I say, it wasn't straightforward and they need to get rid of this habit of

02:04 sort of starting sluggishly and obviously falling a goal behind. But anyway, it's the

02:07 first win of the Daniel Farker era. As I say, the draw's been done, it's Salford away, so

02:13 it's an away day. What you would say is, although you don't believe any opposition, that should

02:16 give Leeds a decent chance but have been able to make round three. Interesting comments

02:20 tonight from Daniel Farker, Willy Nonto missed out tonight, didn't make the bench, he was

02:24 the only player to not make the bench who played the other day, who wasn't injured.

02:29 He said he wasn't available, so we'll wait and see what happens with that. But now it's

02:33 on to Birmingham at the weekend. Obviously Leeds have got the first win here under Daniel

02:37 Farker but it's important now, imperative really, that they get the first championship

02:41 win very, very soon and hopefully this weekend at Birmingham. Press conference to come very

02:45 quickly after tonight's game on Thursday afternoon, so we'll have all the news from that. But

02:51 anyway, the Daniel Farker era is up and running with a win, now it's on to Birmingham and

02:54 hopefully Leeds can get one there. Cheers for now.

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