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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 27: Monday 2 January 2006
Plymouth Argyle 0 - 3 Leeds United
(Half-time: 0 - 0)
Crowd: 17726
Referee: P Taylor (Cheshunt)
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Leeds awoke from initial Bank Holiday apathy to destroy Plymouth
in the second half. Without a proper shot on target in the first
half, Leeds could by the end have scored half a dozen.
Two goals in eight minutes ended any sort of challenge from the
home team. Thereafter the gap between the two sides on the field
was as large as the 16 league places separating them in the
table.
Leeds are starting to make a habit of winning ugly. It is a
habit that is helping them take a control of third place in the
Championship. But here, following a first half that was more beast
than beauty, a goal seven minutes after the break began to unveil
some aesthetic pleasures. Not that the Leeds manager Kevin
Blackwell, back at the ground where he started his coaching career
with Argyle's youth team, will care provided his team keep
winning.
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