Patrick Bamford 'fuming' despite Leeds United win v Norwich as striker gives table assessment — YEP 25/1/24
Patrick Bamford has now scored four in his last five for Daniel Farke's Whites - yet is not entirely satisfied.
By Lee Sobot
Whites striker Patrick Bamford saluted an important Leeds
United victory against Norwich City - but was still left "fuming"
despite the success.
In-form Bamford bagged the only goal of the game in
Wednesday night's Championship clash at Elland Road, neatly heading home a Dan
James cross in the 16th minute to seal a 1-0 win for Daniel Farke's side.
The victory put fourth-placed Leeds just two points behind
second-placed Ipswich Town and Bamford admitted the fixture was a must-win to
close the gap in the automatic promotion race as the Whites also moved within a
point of third-placed Southampton.
Bamford, though, despite hailing a deserved win against a
tough side, was left disappointed with himself at not adding to his and
United's tally.
The striker had a golden chance in the second half when
blasting wide from the middle of the box as part of a display in which he also
sent a clever overhead kick wide.
Reflecting on his goal, Bamford told LUTV: "I know that
if I make the movement in the box, especially coming from the right side like
when DJ is going to look to cross, he knows what my movement is. It's worked a
couple of times now.
"But to be honest I am fuming that I didn't score the
second."
Pressed on the victory putting pressure on the sides above
Leeds, Bamford reasoned: "We obviously knew that we needed to win and it
was a tough game, trust me.
"In the second half, for that first 20-25 minutes in
the second half, we really had to dig in there so it was a well earned three
points and the lads deserved the win."
