Leeds 0-1 Man City: What Riemer and Gruev said

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Eddie Riemer speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "I just had a short chat [with Daniel Farke]. Six minutes added time, they were time wasting and there were incidents; the goalkeeper keeping the ball so he was emotional in terms of going on the pitch and asking. Maybe he did it in a too aggressive manner I would think. I am disappointed because he's never a manager who's over aggressive or over reacting. I think it's a very harsh decision.

On the performance today: "I'm completely pleased with performance. There are parts you need to suffer and wait but we pushed City all the way, I'm completely proud of the boys it's just a shame we didn't get anything out of the game.

"I'm disappointed we didn't score but that's football. Playing City, not many teams have many more chances than we did. Fair play to them. They overloaded the left side, good run, good finish."

Leeds United defender Ilia Gruev, speaking to Sky Sports: "Really frustrating. I think it was a great atmosphere and a great game from our side. The first 20-25 minutes we're so on to them. Disappointing because I thought we played a really good game today.

"This was the time and we had two three great chances. You have to score at least one.

"When you play against City they normally have more of the ball than you, but you know you have your moments then you can win some balls."

On the ending: "Emotions, they want to win, but we also want to win. It was ana exhausting game - emotions involved and this is quite normal."

Did you know?

  • Following his goal there for Bournemouth in September, Antoine Semenyo became just the second player to score at Elland Road for two different teams in a single Premier League season after Robbie Keane in 2002-03 (for Leeds United and Tottenham).

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