Manchester Metropolis suffered only a fourth Premier League defeat of the season as 10-man Leeds United shocked the runaway leaders because of Stuart Dallas’ double in a 2-1 win on the Etihad on Saturday. Dallas opened the scoring three minutes earlier than half-time, however hope of a well-known win for Marcelo Bielsa’s males appeared to have disappeared when captain Liam Cooper was proven a straight pink card in first-half stoppage time.
The guests withstood a Metropolis bombardment till Ferran Torres equalised 14 minutes from time.
However Leeds nonetheless summoned the vitality to pose a menace on the counter-attack and gained their reward when Dallas slotted under Ederson.
Bielsa’s first win in 5 conferences towards Pep Guardiola propels Leeds to ninth of their first season again within the English high flight for 16 years.
Guardiola paid for closely rotating his facet with Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final, second leg, towards Borussia Dortmund clearly his precedence.
Metropolis nonetheless take pleasure in a 14-point lead on the high of the Premier League and want simply 11 factors from their remaining six matches to ensure a 3rd title in 4 years.
However Manchester United might shut the hole to eight factors ought to the Purple Devils win their two video games in hand, the primary of which is away to Tottenham on Sunday.
A two-minute silence was held earlier than kick-off in honour of Prince Philip, who died aged 99 on Friday.
As soon as the motion acquired underway, Metropolis noticeably missed Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan, Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden and Ruben Dias, who had been among the many stars left on the bench by Guardiola.
Raheem Sterling’s presence in what was largely a second string facet is a mirrored image of how the England worldwide has fallen down the pecking order prior to now few weeks.
Sterling didn’t even get on in its place within the first leg towards Dortmund and did little to additional his case for choice in midweek by slicing an incredible likelihood huge from Fernandinho’s cut-back.
Leeds had wasted quite a few promising assaults with their ultimate ball, however discovered the crowning glory on 43 minutes.
Patrick Bamford teed up Dallas to strike low in off the within the put up.
The guests’ pleasure was short-lived. Simply 4 minutes later they had been a person down.
Cooper performed the ball first earlier than crashing into Gabriel Jesus, however referee Andre Marriner upgraded a yellow card proven to the Leeds’ captain to a pink after reviewing the incident on the pitch-side display.
Bamford was instantly sacrificed for extra defensive cowl in Pascal Struijk as Leeds battened down the hatches.
Metropolis had been camped contained in the Leeds half for nearly your complete second-half, however had been largely diminished to long-range efforts as Illan Meslier saved from Oleksandr Zinchenko, Fernandinho and Joao Cancelo.
Gundogan and Foden had been launched to convey extra spark to Metropolis’s assault, however De Bruyne was surprisingly left in reserve for the total 90 minutes.
Torres lastly made Metropolis’s dominance pay with a first-time end after Fernandinho picked out Silva inside the world.
But, Leeds nonetheless went in quest of a winner.
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Raphinha outpaced Fernandinho, however was denied by a superb sort out by Brazilian compatriot Ederson.
Leeds’ method was rewarded in stoppage time when Dallas galloped clear down the center of a vacant Metropolis defence to fit dwelling.
