"It is very simple" - Joel Piroe makes Leeds United attack call with regret and bottom line — YEP 12/11/23
Joel Piroe has faced up to a Leeds United regret with a Whites shooting call but ultimately what matters most heading into the international break.
By Lee Sobot
Dutch forward Piroe's sixth Championship goal of the season
put Leeds 2-0 up after just 28 minutes of Saturday's home clash against
Plymouth Argyle in which the Whites had plenty of other chances to add to their
tally.
Having gone four games without a goal, Piroe admitted he was
glad to get back on the scoresheet for a strike which ultimately proved crucial
in a 2-1 success for Daniel Farke's third-placed side.
Piroe, though, conceded that his side should have
"finished" Plymouth long before Ben Waine pulled a goal back for the
Pilgrims in the 85th minute but that another three-point haul was ultimately
the bottom line.
Calling for more belief in his team's shooting, Piroe
reasoned: "I think in a game you always have one chance at least and they
scored out of it. They stayed in the game by us not finishing them really
because we should have just scored, it is very simple.
"Of course, no-one misses a chance on purpose so we
can't blame each other for it. It's good that we get in the right spaces and
the right places. Of course, maybe a little bit more belief when we shoot but
at the end of the day we got the three points and that's all that matters.
"We still created enough chances and we should have
just converted them and then it would have been an easy afternoon but we let
ourselves down a little bit with that. But I think we showed our mentality and
just kept going."
Leeds went ahead with just 21 minutes on the clock through
Dan James before Piroe's neat finish doubled the Whites' advantage. Plymouth
survived a host of other Leeds chances as the newly-promoted Pilgrims entered
the half-time break just 2-0 down.
"I think we all enjoyed it out there," said Piroe,
pressed on his team's first-half display. "We were very dominant, in their
half, pressing really well, creating chance after chance and it's just our
fault that we didn't put the game to bed."