The first game since the changing of the clocks, but it wasn’t to be any change for Daniel Farke’s men, as Leeds once again showed the defensive aptitude to keep a clean sheet away from home against Sunderland.

Despite the defensive performance, there was much to be desired at the top end of the pitch, as no goals scored against a bottom-of-the-league Sunderland is disappointing.

However, with still only one loss in the league in eight games, Leeds’ impressive start is continuing and it’s starting to look like more of a regular outcome rather than a good start, although only two goals scored in the league since their 4-1 thumping of Newcastle in September could be cause for concern.

Player Ratings

James Trafford - 8.0 (MOTM)

In very difficult conditions, Trafford had one of his best games in a Leeds shirt, making four saves, including two impressive stops from shots against Brian Brobbey to keep his third clean sheet of the season.

Defence

James Justin - 7.5

Clean sheet, got forward on the overlap well, covered the most distance in the match, very impressive for someone playing as a centre-back. Solid performance.

Jaka Bijol - 7.5

Coming into the side for the injured Nico Elvedi and instantly racking up 15 defensive contributions and winning 5/7 of his duels did not make Elvedi as big of a miss as Daniel Farke may have initially feared.

Tarik Muharemovic - 7.5

Yet again, another solid performance for Muharemovic; always puts in a good shift and is tough to get past, could have scored from a corner just after half-time, but his effort was saved by Roefs.

Midfield

Jayden Bogle - 6.5

Not as good of a performance as has been seen from him in recent weeks, only won 8/14 of his duels, completed the most dribbles in the game, won a few fouls, but unnecessarily picked up a yellow card for which the challenge could have been a red.

Ethan Ampadu - 7.0

Similar to Muharemovic, he just always seems to put in a good performance, very rarely has a bad game, and never seems to be the standout player.

Ao Tanaka - 7.0

Played as well as Ampadu, didn’t cover as much ground as he normally does or as much as Ampadu, but both centre-midfielders picked up 10 defensive contributions and won a fair few duels.

Gabriel Gudmundsson - 6.5

Played okay, won 6/7 of his duels, but no accurate crosses for a wing-back is very disappointing.

Attack

Harry Wilson - 5.5

Finally given his chance to show himself in the league and he did not take it well, was okay on set-piece delivery, but apart from that, a fairly nothing performance.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin - 5.0

Had no service, could not get into the game at all, some good hold-up play in moments, but 0 shots and 0/7 duels won is very poor for a starting striker.

Brenden Aaronson - 5.5

Aaronson and Wilson both created two chances each, but neither were good enough to give Leeds a clear chance; similar to Wilson, he just had a game where he could not do anything to affect the match.

Substitutes

Noah Okafor - 6.0

Got into some good positions after coming on and caused some threat, but no outcome from the change.

Anton Stach - 5.0

Was barely even noticeable when he came on, won 3/4 duels however.

Lukas Nmecha - 5.0

Was not brought on for long enough to have an impact on the game.

Sean Longstaff - 6.0

Two shots on target in 10 minutes and brought some much-needed energy onto the pitch for the final few attacks.