BIELSA AND BRUCE BITE THE DUST ON NIGHT OF SHOCKS
CHAMPIONSHIP big guns LEEDS and ASTON
VILLA suffered surprise second-round defeats which came as a huge blow to their respective bosses Marcelo Bielsa and Steve Bruce.
Bielsa’s Leeds may be top after five games but they were humbled 2-0 at Elland Road by 10-man PRESTON. The visitors recovered from the dismissal of Ryan Ledson — a summer signing from Oxford United — in the 29th minute for a ferocious tackle on Lewis Baker.
The opening goal came inside two minutes as Louis Moult was tripped in the box by Conor Shaughnessy. Daniel Johnson sent Jamal Blackman the wrong way from the spot.
Brandon Barker, on loan from Manchester City, fired the second on a counter from just inside the Preston half. He travelled 40 yards before bending a left-footed shot home.
Preston boss Alex Neil put victory down to good homework. ‘I’ve seen Leeds live twice and they’ve been blowing teams away,’ he said. ‘This result speaks volumes. We felt having watched them we knew how to play them.’
As for Bielsa’s verdict: ‘Painful. We should not have lost. Usually when we have three chances we score one. Today we had 12 and didn’t score any. The efficiency was not good.’
Bruce’s Villa came a cropper 1-0 at League One BURTON ALBION, for whom Liam Boyce took a pass from Scott Fraser seven minutes into the second half and lashed home.
But there was drama in the 89th minute when Burton’s Kyle McFadzean handled in the area and was sent off. Up stepped Albert Adomah but his spot-kick was saved by Harry Campbell, 22, a debutant goalkeeper who replaced injured Stephen Bywater after 31 minutes.
‘You could use the word embarrassing about that performance,’ said a seething Bruce, but Burton boss Nigel Clough was overjoyed. ‘We had to make all three of our substitutions by half time and we lost Jake Buxton before the game — all in all it’s been a very memorable evening in the end,’ he said.
Frank Lampard’s DERBY won 4-0 at HULL. The goals came from Martin Waghorn, Florian Jozefzoon, Brandon Fleming’s own goal and a late one from Chelsea loanee Mason Mount.
As for the next round, Lampard said: ‘The big boys are coming in which will be a great test for us. For the romantic link, Chelsea would be very nice — a good one.’
QPR boss Steve McClaren labelled Bright Osayi-Samuel a ‘star of the future’ as the young winger played a key role with a fine opening goal in a 3-1 win against BRISTOL ROVERS.