Stoke City 0 Leeds United 3 - Big Match Verdict: Improving Whites settle another old score in most emphatic fashion yet
Wigan Athletic; the side who put the biggest nail in the coffin of the club’s 2019 promotion bid; swept aside 2-0 four months later.
Brentford, who lowered that coffin into the ground with a 2-0 success on Easter Monday, stung by a late Eddie Nketiah winner in the very next game.
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Hide AdSeven months after a 2-1 defeat back in January, Stoke City were next on United and head coach Marcelo Bielsa’s hitlist.
Another week, another old wound healed and in the most emphatic style yet to further fuel hope that the deepest scar of all could disappear with promotion in nine months’ time.
Stoke and Leeds are in different places to when the two sides met back in January for former Luton Town boss Nathan Jones’ first game in charge.
Back then, goals from Sam Clucas and Joe Allen got Jones off to a flyer as Leeds finished the game with ten men following Pontus Jansson’s dismissal.
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