Daniel Wales and Lee Sobot discuss who is Leeds United’s most in-form striker.
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00:00Leeds have scored a lot of goals this season and they've had a lot of different goal scorers.
00:06You've had Joel Perrault, you've had Matteo Joseph both playing through the middle for
00:10Leeds and if we look at that sort of that debate and in particular on Joel Perrault
00:14who himself has got six goals this season, which is pretty high in the Championship so
00:18far, who's preferred do you think, Ellen Drodd, at the moment?
00:23Because we start the season with Joseph because we spoke a lot last season about how Perrault
00:29never really has hit the heights people perhaps have expected him at Leeds until this season
00:34when actually he started putting the ball in the back of the net.
00:36So what's the feeling there?
00:38Who should be starting games?
00:40It's a hard one to weigh up this because obviously a lot of Perrault's goals have been off the
00:43bench and he's sort of wanting to sort of have that impact from the start really and
00:46he's definitely got it in his locker to do that.
00:48But the stats, I mean if you look at the stats, Perrault's played 674 minutes of Championship
00:52football and he's got six goals and two assists and Matteo Joseph's played 830 minutes obviously
00:57so you know like what, 160 minutes more there or thereabouts and he's got two goals and
01:01three assists.
01:02So in terms of goals to minutes ratio, Perrault's way ahead obviously and I don't think there's
01:07any doubt that he's the best finisher at the club.
01:09So at the end of the day, it's goals you need to win games and we've just talked about obviously
01:13Leeds not scoring enough goals in terms of putting games to bed.
01:16So Perrault's the answer really on that score at the moment I think.
01:19I mean that said, Matteo Joseph's a very, very good player obviously.
01:22I mean he's just wanting to get a real run of goals for Leeds, that's the thing and we've
01:25seen it do it for Spain's 21s, I mean he's on a phenomenal run for them and there's no
01:30doubt on how good a player he is and stuff and I've always thought an awful lot of him
01:33and I'm so pleased when he finally got his chance and stuff this season at the start
01:36of it.
01:37And it's not like he's let anybody down or anything like that, I think everybody rates
01:40him very, very highly.
01:41I mean all the fans do, Daniel Farke does, I mean we all do and he's a fantastic player
01:45but just probably wants to score a few more goals obviously but it's not just about that
01:49for strikers.
01:50But yeah, I mean at the moment you're right, I mean with Peru you almost forget how many
01:54he's got.
01:55He's only had six goals, I think that puts him joint fourth in the Championship top scorer
01:58charts and that's a pretty decent return really when you haven't even started that many games,
02:02only had seven league starts compared to Joseph who's had nine.
02:05So you know, I guess he's in pole position at the moment, that said obviously he didn't
02:09start at the weekend and stuff so it's almost like one then the other and obviously it's
02:13a squad game, especially in December as we say when these games are going to be coming
02:17up in December.
02:18I suppose the way to summarise it is you probably just want Peru to be able to do that more
02:22from the start, whereas with Joseph obviously all-round game, yeah fantastic and stuff but
02:26you want him to be like just getting a few more goals and stuff so there's probably like
02:29sort of like little things for him both to be sort of like, you know, to answer I suppose.
02:33But it's a good debate to have to have both those players, shouldn't forget Bamford as
02:36well obviously.
02:37Daniel Farke is always extremely complimentary about Patrick Bamford and he's still very
02:40much in the mix and stuff so another option there.
02:43But it's not just the forwards as well, it's the wingers as well, that's the thing, I mean
02:46obviously leads aren't helped at the moment by Largi Ramazzani being out injured, hopefully
02:51that one's not too serious, you know, it shouldn't be too long hopefully before he's
02:54back and I think probably he's already emerging as like one of the star players, if not like
02:58the star player really.