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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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