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Leeds were unable to return to the top of the Sky Bet Championship after being held to a draw at Watford in the late kick off on Good Friday.
Tom Cleverley kicked off his time as Watford interim head coach off to a good start prior to the international break with a 1-0 win over Birmingham City, and followed it up with a hard-fought point against Leeds.
Despite Leeds’ significantly better position in the league, it was the Hornets who started brightly, taking the lead through Vakoun Bayo.
Leeds fought back, Crysencio Summerville scored a stunning individual curled strike into the top corner to make it 1-1.
Emmanuel Dennis put the Hornets ahead with another good goal, this time an individual effort capped off with a backflip celebration, and it looked enough for the home side before Mateo Joseph scored at the second attempt just moments after being brought onto the field.
Daniel Farke boasts an impressive record for promotion to the top flight, having managed to do so twice when manager of Norwich.
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Watford 2-1 Leeds
52 min: Leeds came close again from a free-kick. Watford were just able to head it clear, but it was flagged off for the ball having gone out in the build up, and with no VAR it would not have stood, even though the ball had not gone out.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
50 min: Summerville drives forwards and he forces Bachmann into a save! He has looked the brightest from Leeds throughout this game and came close, although he was trying to beat the goalkeeper at his near post.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
48 min: So far the second half has started in the same as the first, the hosts have had more of the ball, and a corner, but have not created anything significant from it
HT: Watford 2-1 Leeds
Half time: That was an exciting half of football, and there have been some stunning goals.
Summerville levelled the score, cancelling out Bayo’s opener with a curled strike into the top corner, but Dennis was not to be out-done. He wrong-footed the defender, drilled the ball into the back of the net, and then celebrated with a backflip.
GOAL! Dennis fires Hornets into the lead! - Watford 2-1 Leeds
GOAL! 45 min: Emmanuel Dennis is back to his best!
That was a lovely piece of individual skill to create the space in the box to get the shot underway before firing under Meslier.
The Hornets have restored their lead.
Watford 1-1 Leeds
44 min: Another Watford corner, and this time it does fall to a player in yellow and black, although Pollock was not able to get sufficient power on his header and Meslier was able to make a straighforward save.
Watford 1-1 Leeds
40 min: Cooper had to be alert there for Leeds at the back to turn the ball behind and away from the incoming Bayo.
As they have done all evening, Leeds deal with the subsequent corner comfortably.
GOAL! Summerville fires in stunning equaliser - Watford 1-1 Leeds
GOAL! 37 min: That was a stunner! Summerville is picked out almost at the sideline, he makes his way into just the corner of the box before unleashing an absolute beauty of a curled strike right into the top corner.
There was nothing the goalkeeper could do about that!
Watford 1-0 Leeds
34 min: Rodon makes a brilliant defensive challenge to prevent Dennis just strolling into a place where he could get a shot away. That could have made things twice as challenging for the visitors, but for the defender.
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