'I could have' - Joel Piroe's Leeds United admission and Whites opposition doubt – YEP 8/10/23
Joel Piroe helped fire Leeds United to the boost of back to back wins before a personal admission as the striker voiced Whites opposition doubt.
By Lee Sobot
Just three days after Wednesday night’s 1-0 win at home to
Queens Park Rangers, goals from Piroe and Dan James sealed a 2-1 victory
against Saturday’s Championship visitors Bristol City which left the Whites
fifth heading into the international break.
James converted a Georginio Rutter cross to put Leeds ahead
in the 37th minute only for Bristol City to equalise in the fourth minute of
first-half stoppage time through a Kal Naismith header from a corner.
Piroe’s calm finish eight minutes after the interval then
proved the game’s winning goal but the Dutch forward felt the contest could
have been over before the break and that he should have added more than just
the one goal to his growing tally in a Whites shirt.
Leeds had 21 attempts at goal during the contest, eight of
which were on target compared to Bristol City’s eight efforts of which only two
were directed between the posts.
Expressing doubts over whether Bristol City would have had
the power to come back from 2-0 or 3-0 down, Piroe told LUTV: “I think I could
have scored more and made it a little bit easier for ourselves as well. But I
am always happy to be on the scoresheet.
"I think even before we conceded in the last seconds in
the first half, if we are up two, maybe three nil even then it's a different
game already, I'm not sure if they would have the confidence or power to score
against us."