Matches – 28 September 2010 – Leeds United 4 Preston NE 6
Matches – 28 September 2010 – Leeds United 4 Preston NE 6 Championship – Elland Road – 22,727 Scorers: Leeds - Becchio (15 min), Bruce (20), Somma 2 (27, 39) - Preston - Parkin 3 (5, 40, 64), Teacy (54), Davidson (58 pen, Hume 79) Leeds United: Higgs; Hughes, Bruce, Collins, McCartney; Gradel, Howson (Clayton 73), Johnson, Sam (Kilkenny 59); Somma, Becchio (Watt 73) Preston North End: Lonergan; Jones, Morgan, St. Ledger, Davidson; Barton, Russell, Coutts, Treacy (Gray 88); Parkin (Hayes 88), Hume 8.25pm, Tuesday, 28 September 2010, Elland Road… Davide Somma has just given Leeds United a 4-1 lead against relegation-threatened Preston North End and the Whites are on the brink of a comfortable win as they look to maintain their push for promotion… An hour later, a stunned 23,000 crowd sits open mouthed as Iain Hume crowns a breathtaking Preston comeback by heading in the visitors’ sixth goal of a remarkable evening. Bizarre scorelines of this sort had been all but consigned to the annals of history; shell- The scoreboard says it all on a remarkable evening at Elland Road shocked United manager Simon Grayson must have wished it had remained there as he watched his team crumble feebly into a defensive shambles. A fortnight earlier, Grayson had seen United capitulate 5-2 at Barnsley. His men seemed to have banished that defensive ineptitude when they earned first a goalless draw at Doncaster and then a 1- 0 victory over Sheffield United and he went into the Preston fixture in good heart, hoping to consolidate on fifth place. The manager named a side unchanged from the one which started against the Blades.
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