Leeds United 2-2 Cardiff City: Late Crysencio Summerville goal rescues point for hosts

Liam Cooper's towering header aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional began Leeds' revival

Leeds United made a melodramatic instrumentality to the Championship - and commencement to manager Daniel Farke's reign - arsenic Crysencio Summerville's added-time equaliser capped their fightback from 2 goals down to gully with Cardiff City.

A towering header by Leeds skipper Liam Cooper aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional fuelled a resurgence from the ascendant hosts, who missed respective chances.

Just arsenic it looked similar Cardiff would cling connected for a memorable victory, Summerville finished superbly 5 minutes into clip added connected to spark jubilant celebrations astatine Elland Road.

A constituent was the slightest Leeds deserved. The stats told the communicative of their supremacy: 72% possession, 25 shots to Cardiff's 7 and six connected people compared to their opponents' two.

And yet for each that, Bulut's broadside volition consciousness crushed that their resolute antiaircraft show - and ruthless finishing connected the interruption - was not capable to win.

New beginnings

Ex-Chelsea striker Ike Ugbo has joined Cardiff connected a season-long indebtedness from French nine Troyes

Both sides entered this play with the consciousness of a caller commencement having been done summers of alteration successful the transportation marketplace arsenic good arsenic the dugout.

Farke's archetypal Leeds line-up featured lone 3 players who began the club's last Premier League crippled successful May - Cooper, Luke Ayling, and Pascal Struijk - aft an off-season which yielded much departures than arrivals.

Of the 3 caller faces to travel in, lone Ethan Ampadu, a £7m acquisition from Chelsea, started this match, though determination was a afloat debut for teen Archie Gray portion Daniel James was backmost connected the near helping having been connected indebtedness astatine Fulham past season.

Bulut, meanwhile, handed archetypal Cardiff appearances to 4 caller signings - Bowler, Ugbo, Dimitrios Goutas and Karlan Grant - arsenic good arsenic a 3rd Bluebirds debut for erstwhile Arsenal and Juventus midfielder Aaron Ramsey pursuing his instrumentality to his boyhood club.

There was a pleasing travel to the lucifer contempt those changes, arsenic Leeds looked to power possession and property their opponents, portion Cardiff waited for their opportunities to pounce connected the break.

Wilfried Gnonto posed an aboriginal menace for Leeds, seeing 1 changeable blocked and blasting different narrowly wide, earlier Summerville was denied by a crunching tackle from Mark McGuinness.

Cardiff were much objective with their archetypal accidental arsenic they took the pb midway done the archetypal half. Left-back Callum O'Dowda cantered into abstraction and pulled the shot backmost to Bowler, whose archetypal changeable was blocked earlier a lay-off from Ugbo allowed him to changeable a neat decorativeness into the bottommost corner.

Leeds continued to propulsion forward, with Summerville combining with Gnonto earlier seeing his curling changeable good saved by Jak Alnwick - but little than 2 minutes later, they fell further behind.

Cardiff's 2nd extremity was again arsenic overmuch to bash with Leeds' antiaircraft vulnerability arsenic it was their ain cutting edge.

Bowler combined with Ryan Wintle and recovered himself escaped connected the right, wherever helium passed to Ramsey. The Wales captain's changeable past took a deflection and bobbled crossed goal, wherever Ugbo got successful beforehand of Ayling to descent in.

If a two-goal shortage was a small harsh connected Leeds, they were speedy to halve it successful the 2nd fractional arsenic Cooper roseate precocious to caput successful from Summerville's corner.

That was Cooper's last engagement arsenic helium appeared to injure his genu successful the process of scoring, joining absorption skipper Joe Ralls connected the sideline aft his first-half withdrawal.

The extremity ignited Leeds and the Elland Road assemblage arsenic the progressively ascendant location broadside pinned Cardiff backmost successful their ain half.

Gnonto continued to beryllium a menace, darting into the punishment country and having a debased changeable helped connected to the barroom by Alnwick, who was aboriginal astatine afloat agelong to contradict James from the borderline of the box.

The unit from the hosts was relentless and, arsenic the chances kept coming, Leeds yet converted 1 arsenic Summerville struck with a debased changeable to interruption Cardiff's resistance.