The Weekend Review: Defeat for Farke’s men but Women through in the FA Cup

The Weekend Review: Defeat for Farke’s men but Women through in the FA CupAcross the weekend, our four teams were all in action, beginning with Daniel Farke’s men who fell to defeat on the road at Bournemouth.The Whites thought they had taken the lead through Dominic Calvert-Lewin early on until the goal was chalked off by VAR for handball. The hosts then opened the scoring through Evanilson and as United threw everything at the Cherries in search of a leveller, Amine Adli made sure of the points on the break.“Absolutely frustrating,” skipper Ethan Ampadu said after the full-time whistle. “It didn’t really feel like a 2-0 game but it is at the end of the day so we have to look at what we can do better. They only had a couple of chances and they put them in the back of the net. Maybe as a team, as a whole team, we can be better.“We knew they play with a lot of intensity and so do we. We wanted to make sure that we matched that. We wanted to win that battle and we knew that this game was going to come down to small chances. Maybe on another day the game would go a bit differently.”Elsewhere on Saturday, our Under-21s were held to a 2-2 draw by Stoke City Under-21s in the Premier League Cup group stages. After falling behind early on, Carrick Njinko levelled for the hosts. Again then trailing, Jayden Lienou’s penalty restored parity and despite looking the much more likely of the teams, Leeds were unable to find a winner.Speaking to LUTV, boss Scott Gardner explained: “Definitely not a good point. They played some lovely stuff and I say this most weeks, but there has got to be more of an intent and more desire to want to win games.“They have got to see the value in that if they want to go play in the senior game. We create a lot of chances, as normal, and had most of the ball. I want to see a greater determination for us to win more games and not just win but win by three or four. We have had a number of games this season where we could have won by four or five goals and we let teams back in.”Our Under-21s kicked off just as the final whistle sounded at Thorp Arch, where our Under-18s slipped to a cruel late defeat at the hands of Derby County. Sam Alker’s finish put Rob Etherington’s side ahead and they lead until the 88th minute when the visitors equalised, before completing the smash-and-grab turnaround in stoppage time.On Sunday, Leeds United Women advanced to the Second Round of the FA Cup with a professional 2-0 victory over Rotherham United Women at the BD Community Stadium. Goals either side of the break from Ava Spencer-Smith and Shauna Legge sealed the win for Simon Wood’s team, who will now host Norton & Stockton Ancients in the next stage.“The girls did really well,” Spencer-Smith began. “We worked together and were very resilient. Both goals were a very good team effort, so I am very pleased and quite proud to be into the next round. We worked really well together. We wanted to get that extra goal, obviously, so we were two-nil up. Again, it was a really good team effort, working together.“We are very pleased we have passed the First Round. In the second stage of the cup, we will be very resilient again, working together from the beginning. Hopefully we will score some more goals and move on to the next one.”How does this week look?On Tuesday afternoon, the U18s welcome Blackburn Rovers to Thorp Arch in the latest U18 Premier League North encounter. A few hours later, the U21s travel to Teesside to take on Hartlepool United in the National League Cup, live for subscribers on LUTV.On Saturday, Farke’s men host Tottenham Hotspur at Elland Road, keen to get back to winning ways after the defeat on the south coast. That fixture is live for fans in the UK on TNT Sports and gets underway at 12:30pm.Completing the fixtures, our U21s and Women are in action on Sunday. Gardner’s youngsters entertain Bournemouth at the LNER Community Stadium live on LUTV, while a place in the next round of the FA WNL awaits Wood’s team if they overcome Liverpool Feds away from home.