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It had been a game to reflect the tyranny of analytics-based football, when thought and expression are abandoned for the playbook, where set pieces rule, and long throws become key events. For Brentford\u2019s Michael Kayode, read Leeds\u2019 Ethan Ampadu, both taking an age before hurling the ball into a mass of bodies, and the ball being headed away.<\/p>\n
As it stands, scoring a goal from open play remains a valid tactic, and it was from such a situation that Rico Henry set up Jordan Henderson to score his first goal in English football since 2021, via an unfortunate deflection off the Leeds defender Jaka Bijol. In turn, Leeds found their equaliser from open play, Dominic Calvert-Lewin nodding home Wilfried Gnonto\u2019s cross. Henry and Gnonto, both substitutes, had added a dab of quality to a previously constipated contest.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a>Jordan Henderson’s reaction<\/p>\n I thought it was a good game. Leeds are a good side and their formation made it difficult to break them down. We weren\u2019t at our best in the first half but we still had a lot of the ball and created one or two chances. Then second half we got the goal and once we go 1-0 up we\u2019d be disappointed not to keep a clean sheet.<\/p>\n [On paying tribute to Diogo Jota with his celebration] I don\u2019t score many goals so I always thought that when I did, I\u2019d dedicate it to him. It was his birthday recently and we\u2019ll never forget him. He was a good friend and I can only imagine what the lads at Liverpool are going through.<\/p>\n [On his form since joining Brentford] I feel pretty good. Physically I feel very good and it\u2019s nice to be back in the Premier League. So, yeah: head down, try to work hard and do my best to help the team pick up as many points as possible.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.00 EST<\/p>\n Full time: Brentford 1-1 Leeds<\/p>\n Leeds\u2019 mini-revival continues with a well-earned point at the Gtech Stadium. In a game of few clear chances, Jordan Henderson\u2019s first goal for Brentford<\/a> was cancelled out by a towering header from the in-form Dominic Calvert-Lewin. He has scored in his last four games.<\/p>\n This is what it does to the Premier League<\/a> table.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90+5 min Ouattara leaves Rodon on his arse and eventually has a shot blocked, but play is pulled back for an offside earlier in the move.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90+3 min A defensive header from Bogle is well read by Damsgaard, who has looked a cut above since coming on as sub. His attempted through pass to Thiago is cut out and Ouattara sweeps the loose ball over the bar from 20 yards.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.26 EST<\/p>\n 90+2 min: Leeds substitution Jack Harrison on, Noah Okafor off.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min There will be five minutes of added time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 89 min: Leeds substitution James Justin replaes the limping Gabriel Gudmundsson.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 87 min \u201cWhatever happened to the Dubious Goals Committee?\u201d says Edan Tal. \u201cWe never hear of it anymore! Can\u2019t have been dissolved, it was always my dream job.\u201d<\/p>\n I think it was absorbed by Geoff Shreeves.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.20 EST<\/p>\n 85 min Leeds really fancy this. Gudmundsson barrels down the left then plays the ball back to Ampadu. He has loads of space so moves forward and rifles a low drive from 25 yards that whistles just wide of the left-hand post. Kelleher probably had it covered but it was close.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Brentford 1-1 Leeds (Calvert-Lewin 82)<\/p>\n DCL\u2019s purple patch continues! His fourth goal in as many games is an expert header from Gnonto\u2019s excellent cross. Calvert-Lewin got away from the defenders, hung in the air forever and steered a header into the corner. Lovely finish; Kelleher had no chance.<\/p>\n Dominic Calvert-Lewin heads Leeds level! Photograph: John Sibley\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.18 EST<\/p>\n 81 min If it stays like this Brentford<\/a> will move up to 13th, level on points with Newcastle and Tottenham. Leeds would remain in 17th, two points above West Ham.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 80 min: Double substitution for Brentford<\/a> Kristoffer Ajer and Yehor Yarmoliuk replaces Mathias Jensen and Vitaly Janelt, which probably means a switch to a back three\/five.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 80 min Ouattara speeds past Struijk, moves into the area and tries to find Jensen. It\u2019s not a great pass and two Leeds defenders are able to crowd him out.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 78 min A good Leeds counter-attack falls down when Stach gets the ball stuck under his feet in the D. He then underhits his pass to Bogle, who shoots well wide as a result.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 76 min Replays show that Henderson\u2019s shot would have hit the post had it not deflected off Bijol. It\u2019s hard to tell whether the ball would have hit the inside of the post and bounced into the net, or whether it would have come back out, so for now the goal has been given to Henderson.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 75 min: Good save by Kelleher! Ampadu\u2019s long throw bounces off Van den Berg and is swept towards goal by Aaronson. Kelleher leaps to his right to push it round the post.<\/p>\n In fact replays show that Aaronson and Okafor made contact simultaneously. Their shot probably wasn\u2019t going in anyway \u2013 it would have hit the post – but Kelleher made sure.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 73 min: Leeds substitutions Willy Gnonto and Brenden Aaronson come on for Ao Tanaka and Jaka Bijol. That probably means a return to a back four.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s Henderson\u2019s first goal since joining the club in the summer. Damsgaard, near the touchline, threaded a beautiful angled pass to release Henry on the left side of the area. His cross was cut out by Bijol at the near post, but Henderson arrived on the scene to open his body and sidefoot the ball into the net.<\/p>\n In fact his shot hit Bijol so it may go down as an own goal. More importantly, Lucas Perri might have saved it without the touch off Bijol.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a VAR check for offside but the goal stands.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.06 EST<\/p>\n GOAL! Brentford 1-0 Leeds (Henderson 70)<\/p>\n Jordan Henderson ends the nonsense and gives Brentford<\/a> the lead!<\/p>\n Jordan Henderson scores for Brentford! Photograph: Javier Garc\u00eda\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.07 EST<\/p>\n 69 min A clever early pass from Damsgaard releases Jensen, who slightly overhits his lobbed cross on the run. Brentford<\/a> keep the ball alive and Ouattara\u2019s speculative shot is kicked away for a throw-in.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 68 min Erm, there\u2019s nothing to say. Nuttin.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 64 min Leeds continue to dominate possession in the second half. For a team with such a brilliant home record, Brentford<\/a> have been strangely flat.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.56 EST<\/p>\n 63 min \u201cIt\u2019s always good to see a player in Mikkel Damsgaard who, at the first sign of a receding, hasn\u2019t immediately reached for the hair clippers and set them to number zero,\u201d writes Andy Flintoff.<\/p>\n You can get a zero? To think I\u2019ve been rocking an unkempt No1 for the past 15 years.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 61 min: Brentford<\/a> substitutions Mikkel Damsgaard and Rico Henry replaces Aaron Hickey and Keane Lewis-Potter.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 59 min Gudmundsson tries to shepherd the ball back to his keeper but falls over after a slight push from Ouattara. The ball runs between the legs of Lucas Perri, who has to reach behind him to grab it with Ouattara poised to walk it into an empty net.<\/p>\n That was all a bit strange. It felt like a foul would be given against Ouattara but there was no whistle and he was very close to opening the scoring.<\/p>\n It\u2019s chaos in the Leeds box. Photograph: Toby Melville\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.55 EST<\/p>\n 56 min Mikkel Damsgaard, who was left out today but is Brentford\u2019s likeliest lock-picker, is warming up.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 55 min \u201cI\u2019ve been following this match and Lens-Nice at the same time, and the Northern club seems on its way to the top of the league at the halfway point,\u201d writes K\u00e1ri Tulinius. \u201cLens aren\u2019t churchmice, they\u2019re owned by a guy who\u2019s probably a billionaire, but they\u2019re run extremely sensibly. In that way they\u2019re not dissimilar to Brentford<\/a>. But the stratification of the English game makes it seem ludicrous to imagine that the Bees could challenge for the title. Of course, the same could\u2019ve been said of Leicester back when.\u201d<\/p>\n Are we sure that actually happened? It gets crazier by the year.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.46 EST<\/p>\n 53 min Leeds have had 80 per cent possession since the break.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 51 min Leeds have started the second half well. A long throw is headed away as far as Stach in the D. He connects sweetly with a left-foot volley that is blocked by Van den Berg.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 51 min And, as Simon McMahon is keen to point out, Celtic\u2019s next game is against Dundee United at Tannadice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n