Leeds United heavily defeated by rampant Arsenal

The latest West Yorkshire sport headlines, from Daniel Wales.

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00:00Leeds United were heavily beaten away at the Emirates Stadium against Arsenal, losing 5-0 in their first away match of the season.

00:10Yes, tough night for us. There is no doubt we would have preferred to win this game and to be top of the table league leaders anyhow.

00:19Right now Arsenal is in this position and we are well aware that we are newly promoted side and are fighting to win in the end 38 points.

00:28Nights like this are not season-defining for us. It was always a difficult game. First home game for Man United.

00:37Of course, you wish to have this fixture perhaps after a Champions League game. No, first home game.

00:42Without our captain, without Ysna Badu, they are on the back of an important win for them away at Man United.

00:49All the new signings presented before kick-off, the whole stadium on it was always a tough night for us.

00:54I think you could feel it in the first 10-15 minutes. They were pretty dominant.

00:58We were impressed, not that confident with the ball, but we survived the spirit and grew into the game.

01:03And I think then more and more we were also taking part in this game.

01:08We had also our situations in the first 30 minutes.

01:10Probably the best chance in the whole game was ahead of Pascal Sturik.

01:13And a late equaliser from Peterbury United against Bradford City saw the Bantams drop two points away from home in League One.

01:23I think a really strong performance overall.

01:27I thought we'd become a little bit back to the wall in the last 10 minutes.

01:31But I can understand that with some we've made changes and we couldn't maintain the press that we had all the way up to that point.

01:41But I still felt we were going to see the game out at 1-0.

01:46And if we had all of it, it would have been a really strong away result.

01:49But it's still a really strong away performance.

01:52And that's the biggest thing that we're adding to our tally.

01:56We're trying to avoid injuries.

01:58So I hope fingers crossed that everyone's got through that.

02:00But we've forced our hand a little bit with the subs we had to make.

02:05But yeah, I think we've got to look at the last two games together and take four points from those two tough away games.