{"id":548866,"date":"2025-11-04T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/548866\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:01:17","slug":"heres-why-lucas-perri-was-largely-to-blame-for-leeds-uniteds-loss-to-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/548866\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s\u00a0why Lucas Perri was largely to blame for Leeds United\u2019s loss to Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United\u2019s performance against Brighton was arguably their worst display of the season, alongside the defeat at Arsenal, and Adam Pope has criticised Leeds goalkeeper Lucas Perri.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds<\/a> were easily beaten by Brighton. Supporters expected a difficult afternoon at The Amex, in which Georginio Rutter faced his old side for the first time since his \u00a340m exit back in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n

But it was more that Leeds failed to put up much of a fight on the south coast, in front of fans that had travelled a long way to watch their side. There can be honour in losing, but Leeds failed to show that.<\/p>\n

Gabi Gudmundsson was caught out of position for the first, while Jayden Bogle made a glaring error for the third, allowing Rutter to find Diego Gomez. But Adam Pope<\/a> has criticised goalkeeper Lucas Perri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"DiegoPhoto by Richard Pelham\/Getty ImagesAdam Pope says Lucas Perri was guilty of \u2018unnecessary\u2019 mistakes<\/p>\n

Perri has often been seen preferring to clear the ball, rather than go short. But against Brighton, Perri was trying to play out from the back a bit more often. A pass into Ethan Ampadu almost saw Leeds concede.<\/p>\n

A bad pass to Gudmundsson was noticed by Pope, who discussed Perri\u2019s decision-making on the Don\u2019t Go To Bed Just Yet podcast<\/a> this week. He feels Perri was guilty of making some \u201cunnecessary\u201d mistakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was poor decision-making. Brighton\u2019s press was really aggressive. Perri was making unnecessary decisions and it put players under pressure, or hit a poor pass. Like the one with Gudmundsson.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was dropped onto his right foot, he was stretching, and gave it away. Too much of that. When you get a side that is good in possession, willing to press, and you give them glimpses, it only ends in one result.\u201d<\/p>\n

MORE LEEDS UNITED STORIES<\/p>\n

Lucas Perri\u2019s stats in the Premier League so far since joining Leeds<\/p>\n

Perri\u2019s stats do not make for good reading. While he might have two clean sheets in his five Premier League games for Leeds, the Whites have not kept a clean sheet since the 0-0 draw with Newcastle.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s conceded nine goals in those games, five of which came against Arsenal, three at Brighton and West Ham\u2019s late consolation. He\u2019s only managed nine saves so far, conceding half of the shots he has faced.<\/p>\n

Even more worryingly, his pass accuracy is hovering just above 50%, at 53.4%. It means that one in every two passes or clearances, Leeds lose the ball. That is something Perri has simply got to change, quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United\u2019s performance against Brighton was arguably their worst display of the season, alongside the defeat at Arsenal,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[63127,748,393,4884,1860,89195,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-548866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-adam-pope","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-lucas-perri","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115492506296113518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}