Graham Smyth's Leeds United player ratings vs Norwich City as star man scores 9/10, three 8s but one 5

Leeds United player ratings from the FA Cup fifth round victory at home to Norwich City.

Leeds United booked their place in the FA Cup’s quarter-finals with Sunday’s 3-0 win against Championship visitors Norwich City at Elland Road - but how did we rate the performances?

Leeds looked to have gone ahead in the 20th minute as Lukas Nmecha rolled the ball home from a Willy Gnonto knockdown to a long ball from Jaka Bijol but VAR intervened to judge that Gnonto had handled the ball in challenging keeper Daniel Grimshaw.

The goal was disallowed but a dominant Whites ahead just after the half hour mark through a brilliant turn and finish from Sean Longstaff after Gabi Gudmundsson's excellent cutback from the byline.

It was one-way traffic and Daniel Farke's Whites doubled their lead in the 42nd minute as a Dan James cross was only cleared to the excellent Gudmundsson who slammed home a clinical and no nonsense finish from the middle of the box.

Norwich produced a strong response after the break and wasted a few good chances to pull a goal back but Leeds gradually got going again and the Whites eventually bagged through a classy finish from Joel Piroe with five minutes left.

Graham Smyth, the YEP’s chief football writer, hands out the scores from the fifth round triumph against the Canaries.

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