Daniel Wales and Lee Sobot analyse Sam Chambers’ Leeds United debut.
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00:00You mentioned before, Sun, and they do have another game, we'll get to that in a moment,
00:03but just firstly, we wanted to mention a 17-year-old kid who, of course, played
00:08in the game against Millwall, Sam Chambers. As I understand, they're very young,
00:12playing his trade in the youth team, but was given his chance against Millwall. How did he do?
00:18They thought he did really, really well. I mean, we were all sort of speculating about the team
00:21beforehand, and there were a lot of changes that were obvious, you know, that you just knew would
00:24happen, i.e. Matteo Joseph started up front, like Ramazani coming in non-so, people like that.
00:30But I mean, people like Sam Chambers, I kind of thought he might be on the bench and maybe come
00:35on towards the end of this game, but no, straight into the starting line-up for his full debut,
00:41he'd only played 16 minutes before, I think it was, in the game against Plymouth. So,
00:45a massive occasion for him, and did very, very well. In a way, I'm not surprised,
00:49because when he's been involved in squads before, and he watched the warm-ups and stuff like that,
00:53he really puts himself about. He's a really energetic player, you can tell he's enthusiastic,
00:57wants to get the ball, like, you know, whether it's in the game, as I say, or in the warm-ups,
01:00wants to make an impression on things. And that's what he did in the game, and I don't know about
01:04man of the match, I mean, maybe, I mean, nobody else really stood out particularly. So, I mean,
01:08not bad at all at 17 years old, you know, to come on and make a big impression like that.
01:13There were moments, as Daniel Farker said afterwards, that he could have done better,
01:15but I mean, that's obviously going to be the case when you're coming into the team
01:18at 17 years of age. I mean, he probably should have scored, really, had a great chance to create
01:22what would have been a massive moment for him when he put one over the bar from the edge of the box.
01:27It was interesting that Daniel Farker said afterwards that normally those sort of chances,
01:3010 times out of 10, he puts them away in training. So that's pretty big praise from Daniel Farker,
01:34and he obviously thinks a lot of him. You know, look, it's very, very early steps, isn't it?
01:39Quite literally baby steps, you know, the lad's still a kid and stuff at 17. And he's sort of
01:43one that, like, obviously, given the abundance of wingers that Leeds have got, quite how many more
01:47minutes he'll get, you know, between now and the end of the season. But there's no doubt that he's
01:50a talented young player, made things happen, looks pacey, looks skillful. So, you know,
01:55they've definitely got a good one coming through the ranks there. And obviously, you never know
01:58these young players, how quickly they develop, you know, what the ceiling is, how they can move on.
02:02But all you do is, all you can do is look at that performance and sort of say to him, you know,
02:06well done on a very good, you know, full debut for Leeds. And hopefully we'll see more of him
02:10soon because they've definitely got, you know, a decent young player on their hands there.
02:14And hopefully the future is bright for him.