Leeds 1-1 Leicester Player ratings - RESULT

[The Subhuman]

Meslier
Llorente
Struijk
Cooper
Dallas
Harrison
Phillips
Forshaw
Raphinha
James
Rodrigo

Roberts
Cresswell

[The Subhuman]

Meslier - 7
Llorente - 6
Struijk - 7.5
Cooper - 4.5
Dallas - 7.5
Harrison - 7
Phillips - 7.5
Forshaw - 8.5
Raphinha - 9
James - 7.5
Rodrigo - 7.5

Roberts - 7
Cresswell - 6

[John in Louisiana]

Meslier - 7 - Not at fault for the goal. A little shaky in the distribution
Llorente - 7.5 - Fine performance; Vardy practically a non-entity
Struijk - 7.5 - First time ever as a left back and played very, very well
Cooper - 6.5 - Generally a good job, but can't seem to ever have a game where some screw-up or another doesn't put us at serious risk
Dallas - 8 - Back to his old self. Was absolutely everywhere on the pitch.
Harrison -6 - Not back to his old self. Where is the Jack we saw last year? Missed an absolute sitter for a winning goal
Phillips - 7.5 - Solid. He and Forshaw togethersolidified our midfield in a way we havn't seen in a while
Forshaw - 8. - I am beginning to understand why we waited for this guy to get healthy.
Raphinha - 9 - Seriously. What more can be said about this guy? MOTM. No question
James - 7.5 - If this guy could finish he'd be dangerous.
Rodrigo - 7.5 - Growing into his job. A little better every game

Roberts - 7 - Solid. Made a couple of excellent steals that regained possession at key times
Cresswell - 7 - High for someone playing only a few minutes, but in his one moment absolutely smothered Maddison

[The Subhuman]

Harrison got there too early, not his fault, and it hit his thigh and bounced over, pure bad luck. I thought Raph's last second chance was the pick of the chances second half... Open goal, clean hit just over the bar

At least two lovely runs from Roberts that went un passed. Then a very nice run to get on the end of the over the top ball which bounced off the defenders arm. Not a pen but no luck either.

[Byebyegeegee]

Meslier 7: did what he had to do well enough
Llorente 7: good 1st half faded a little in the 2nd
Struijk 7: centre back is his position, seemed to end up left back. He isn’t a left back!
Cooper 6: generally ok, dropped a point for his one moment of aberration.
Dallas 8: great to see him getting back to his usual self
Phillips 6: a slight (hopefully only temporary) loss of form for Kalvin
Forshaw 8: very good shift from our new old midfielder
Harrison 5.5: very willing as ever but nothing coming off for him at the moment
Raphinha 9: another exciting performance from our wizard nicely topped off with a goal
Rodrigo 7.5: improving all the time - needed to!
James 7: chooses the wrong option quite often but has the speed to cause opposition defences a heap of trouble

Subs
Roberts: not on long enough to rate
Cresswell: ditto

[Johnboy1965]

Meslier - 6
Llorente - 7.5
Struijk - 7
Cooper - 7
Dallas - 7.5
Harrison - 6
Phillips - 7
Forshaw - 8
Raphinha - 9
James - 6
Rodrigo - 7

Roberts - N/A
Cresswell - N/A

[Cjay]

Meslier-7 did what he had to
Dallas-7 . Did well, got up and down the pitch well but nearly cost us a goal.
Struijk-7 . Solid largely, not much attacking threat.
Cooper-6 .OK largely but as always he has that 1 potentially costly mistake.
Llorente-8. Did well largely but very lucky not to concede a pen and probably be sent off.
Phillips-6 . .doesn't seem right to me.
Forshaw-7.5 . Solid and gets an extra half for it being 2 years in waiting, offers Absolutely nothing offensively however.
Rodrigo-7 . Improving in his all round game but needs to improve his end product, not enough substance.
James-7.5 . A constant threat and works so hard but his lack of end product is costing us points. Unfortunately football ks littered with speed merchants with no end product.
Harrison-4 . What more needs to be said, so wasteful.
Raph-9 . Just the usual but he himself had 1 really great chance late on and should have done better.

[Lumiukko]

Meslier - 7 - Solid performance, though did parry one cross into a dangerous area that could have cost us (though to be fair he was damned if he did, damned if he didn't on that one).
Llorente - 7.5 - Kept Vardy quiet. Challenge on Vardy could have been given as a FK in a dangerous area (was just outside the line) but got the benefit of the doubt. Otherwise pretty solid.
Struijk - 7 - A solid but unspectacular outing. Another position on his CV.
Cooper - 6.5 - Again solid and unspectacular but marked down for his customary one-per-game mistake.
Dallas - 8 - All over the pitch and starting to look like the Dallas of last year again. Can't wait to have our RB and LB back from injury to have his engine back in midfield again now his mojo is back.
Harrison - 5.5 - I'm not a Harrison hater in anyway, but lacking confidence and sharpness at the moment. Hope he sorts it out soon.
Phillips - 6.5 - Solid, and formed a decent partnership with Forshaw. Great to see him on the end of some headers from corners.
Forshaw - 8 - Thought he did an excellent job of keeping things ticking over and recycling the ball. Great partnership with Phillips and the pragmatism of him playing with Phillips might be just what we need to solidify the midfield. Also marked up half a point for doing almost 90 minutes after all the injury troubles.
Raphinha - 9 - MOTM. Not much needs to be said. If I were to be critical, tries to do too much on his own sometimes but when you see the teammates around you squandering chances, it's no surprise.
James - 6 - Decent enough game but surely needs to be burying one of his chances.
Rodrigo - 7.5 - I thought Rodrigo was good today. Worked hard in pressing and trying to link play. Deserved his place on the teamsheet.

Subs:
Roberts - 7- Gave the Leicester defence something to think about at a crucial moment in the game where we needed to keep them pinned back to get the point.
Cresswell - 7 - Stuck to Maddison like glue so gets a point for doing what he was brought on to do.

[1964white]

7 Meslier
8 Llorente
7 Struijk
6 Cooper
8.5 Dallas
4 Harrison
7 Phillips
9 Forshaw
9 Raphinha
5 James
7 Rodrigo
Subs :
N/A Roberts
N/A Cresswell

[LUFC 1966]

Meslier 7
Llorente 7.5
Struijk 6.5
Cooper 6
Dallas 8
Harrison 6
Phillips 7
Forshaw 8
Raphinha 8.5
James 6.5
Rodrigo 6.5

Roberts 5
Cresswell 5

[1964white]

Top 3

1. Raphinha
2. Forshaw
3. Dallas