Liam Cooper makes Leeds United promise in promotion assessment and 'bad day' admission — YEP 4/5/24
Whites captain Liam Cooper has had his say ahead of today’s regular season finale at home to Southampton.
By Lee Sobot
Liam Cooper has made a Leeds United promotion bid promise in
sizing up the final day visit of Southampton and the damaging defeat at QPR.
Daniel Farke’s Whites were dealt a hammer blow in their
quest for automatic promotion in last weekend’s clash at Queens Park Rangers in
which a 4-0 defeat paved the way for Ipswich to jump above Leeds into second.
United must now hope that Ipswich end their season with
defeat at home to final day visitors Huddersfield Town and also take three
points themselves from today’s visit of Southampton, ahead of which Cooper has
issued a message to the club’s fans.
Writing in his matchday programme column, Cooper put: “At
Queens Park Rangers, unfortunately you can have a bad day at the office and it
was just one of those days at Loftus Road. We haven’t had many this season and
the timing of it was unfortunate.
“We know we didn’t reach the levels required of us, but we
can’t dwell on that result now. It’s happened, it’s now in the past and we have
to move forwards.
“Today against Southampton, the only focus is on ourselves.
First and foremost, we don’t like losing and we want to put things right today.
What will be, will be, now in terms of automatic promotion.
“But I can promise you one thing, no matter the outcome, we
will continue to believe we ca achieve our overall aim and we will do
everything in our power to achieve it.”
