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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
82 mins: An urgency has finally been injected into Leeds’ performance, and they have less than 10 minutes of normal time to find an equaliser, and capitalise after Leicester dropped points earlier in the day.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
79 mins: Another almost for Leeds, a flick from Bamford, Firpo spots the run of Piroe, but the final delivery is just slightly overhit and he cannot capitalise as the ball runs into the hands of the goalkeeper.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
76 mins: Summerville tries to play in James but Jamal Lewis was in the right place to prevent the forward from being able to take a shot.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
73 mins: Bamford tries to drop and play a quick one two, but Leeds were almost caught on the break!
The visitors’ intensity has just been dropping slightly in the last few minutes.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
70 mins: There’s just a touch of frustration from the away fans as Leeds play it back to their own goalkeeper twice, but they might be about to make another substitution.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
66 mins: Bamford was millimetres away! James curled an attempt towards goal and it was fractionally ahead of Bamford, who would have just had to tap the ball into the net to find the equaliser.
That might be Leeds’ best chance of the half.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
63 min: Watford have another corner, there’s a drumroll from the crowd, and it was kept alive before a wild chance from Sierralta gives Leeds the free kick and the chance to make their first change.
Cooper comes off for Firpo.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
60 min: The game is just being broken up a lot by both sides, quite a few deliberate fouls that are stopping either side from getting going.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
57 min: It looks like Watford are about to make a change and Emmanuel Dennis could be about to come off. It is his oustanding goal that is separating the sides, but it looks like he has felt something and will have to leave the field because of it.
He was replaced by Kone.
Watford 2-1 Leeds
56 min: Leeds have a corner, and commit a foul trying to wrestle the ball back from the Hornets near the touchline.
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