Crysencio Summerville of Leeds United scored the game-winning penalty Wednesday night at Elland Road as the home team defeated Hull City 3-1.
Leeds has maintained their 2024 form, winning every other Championship match to solidify their place in the title fight and only drawing two of their fifteen league games.
On Easter Monday, Hull City made sure Leeds had to work hard for their 3-1 victory by efficiently pressing Leeds and making things difficult for Daniel Farke’s team.
Joel Piroe’s penalty is snatched by Crysencio Summerville to win the match.
Mateo Joseph fumbled a close range shot onto the post, making it appear unlikely that Leeds would win the match. Junior Firpo then soared high at the back post and somehow headed wide.
But as Crysencio Summerville drove the ball past Regan Slater, the Tigers player body-checked him, giving Leeds a massive lifeline and resulting in a stonewall penalty.
Joel Piroe was brought on as a substitute shortly after, but before he could set up another vital Elland Road spot-kick, Summerville—possibly overconfident in his skills after winning the foul—forced him off the field, forcing Ethan Ampadu to step in and calm down the understandably irate Piroe.
Ryan Allsop committed to a diving play early, but Summerville made sure from 12 yards out with an icy finish, rolling the ball down the center.
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It’s very obvious that when Leeds players are on the field, either Summerville or Piroe will take penalties; Pascal Struijk is the backup option and will obviously miss the entire season.
However, Farke clarified the matter after the game by revealing via the YEP that there was another player on the field who might have also been eligible to take it:
“Everyone wanted to ensure that we scored, and we wanted to score. It was challenging.
“Cree was the person who took our team sheet. There weren’t many natural takers on the field today, and thankfully, our second taker didn’t have to.
Joel is usually the first man when I swap him in, but I don’t like it when you take a penalty after only 30 seconds of play; you should have a few touches. A certain amount of misunderstanding existed.
“Cree made the right choice in taking it, and thank God he scored.” Joel was present and helped with the third, so they were both happy.
Hopefully, Dan James wasn’t on the list.
The way Farke puts it in this passage shows he wasn’t sure who he wanted to stand up in case Summerville and Piroe couldn’t.
Given that Dan James has already converted a penalty for us away at Fulham, it seems sense that he was suggesting him in the wake of his heartbreaking Wales experience. However, only Farke and the players are aware of his true identity.
Though I would have loved Piroe to step up as the real chosen name, there was no one else I would have trusted with the spot-kick save these two.
