Lee Sobot's Leeds United player ratings vs Nottingham Forest with rock solid star getting 8/10 and host of 7s

Leeds United player ratings versus Nottingham Forest.

Leeds United began their second season in the Premier League with a last gasp 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest - but how did we rate the performances?

Leeds looked to have gone ahead midway through the first half as Harry Wilson finished off a neat move from a Jayden Bogle cross but the summer signing was flagged offside.

Forest, whose Ola Aina escaped with just a yellow card for a bad challenge on James Justin, were then denied by the frame of the goal towards the end of the first half from a corner.

Both sides then had chances after the break but the contest looked set to end goalless until Anton Stach fired home a brilliant free-kick in the 88th minute to seal a 1-0 win for Daniel Farke’s Whites.

Leeds United writer Lee Sobot hands out the scores from an opening day to savour at the City Ground.

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