Gnonto’s goal lays platform
PLYMOUTH ARG 0 LEEDS UNITED 2
DANIEL Farke was delighted with his Leeds side’s maturity following a routine Championship win at Plymouth Argyle.
Farke admitted: “I am a happy man first of all because no other side since October has managed to come away from here with three points.”
Georginio Rutter set up Wilfried Gnonto’s tenth-minute opener and then capped a comfortable away win with a thumping 72nd-minute strike to secure three points and help United soar to second on the back of an eight-match winning streak in the league.
Farke added: “We got a really good start with the early goal because Plymouth are a good side and hard to beat, especially in home games.
“Illan Meslier was outstanding. That was one of his best performances this season. The last free-kick from Morgan Whittaker for example, he kept out. Today he did everything right.
“The Championship is relentless. It’s all about consistency, which is what we are showing.”
Farke’s side made a flying start and their early pressure was rewarded with a tenth-minute goal for Gnonto, taking his goal tally to five in as many games. Rutter’s audacious high ball into the area split the home fence and Gnonto brildeliantly brought the ball down and stroked it home in, off a post, and past goalkeeper Conor Hazard.
Argyle’s best tempt in the opening 25 at-
minutes was a long-range shot which flew over from Mickel Miller. He was also on hand to stop a lightning break in the 32nd minute as Crysencio Summerville looked to pounce on the counter-attack in a one-on-one break.
Seconds earlier Meslier did well to punch Whittaker’s inswinging corner clear, in a rare Argyle attack. Rutter came close to putting Leeds 2-0 up in the 38th minute with a first-time shot that flew back off a post, after being set up by Joel Piroe.
Piroe did superbly to beat three Argyle players before putting Rutter
