'Excellent as he's been all season': Some Leeds fans in awe of 20-year-old's 'unreal' Friday display

A number of Leeds United fans have taken to Twitter to praise Oliver Casey for his performance in the Whites’ Premier League 2 victory and title triumph last night.

Mark Jackson’s charges, who needed just a point to secure the Division Two title, ran out 2-1 winners at Aston Villa on Friday night.

The result means that Leeds have won promotion to the first division in their very first campaign at this level, after Thorp Arch was upgraded to Category One.

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Sam Greenwood opened the scoring with a superb free kick just four minutes in, and Jack Jenkins made it two on the hour to put Leeds well on the way to the title.

Aaron Ramsey scored a great free kick of his own late on to halve the deficit, and in injury time, Elia Caprile pulled off a superb save before Casey blocked the rebound.

The 20-year-old put in a solid showing and was relatively untroubled by £22million striker Wesley Moraes, who was making his comeback from injury.

And plenty of Leeds fans were pleased with Casey’s display, taking to social media to sing his praises:

what a block Oliver Casey #LUFC
— jack (@jgbaker02) April 16, 2021

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Unbelievable from Caprile and Casey. An amazing save and then a superb block. That’s outstanding especially from Casey. #AVFC U23 1-2 #LUFC U23
— LUFC Academy Central (@LUFCacademynews) April 16, 2021

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Oli Casey. Take a bow #lufc
— mathew hibbert 💙💛 (@matteohib94) April 16, 2021

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90+3. Huge. Caprile saves a low drilled effort before Casey dives to put in a last ditch tackle. Unreal. Leeds celebrated that like a goal. (1-2) #lufc https://t.co/gO5iKGoi1j
— Joe Urquhart (@JoeUrquhart_) April 16, 2021

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Casey. What a block!
Match winner!!#LUFC
— UnitedWhite LUFC (@UnitedWhite) April 16, 2021

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A smart stop by Caprile & then a remarkable block by Casey enough to hold on for the win. Well deserved on the night & over the course of the season. Very happy for all the Academy players & the coaching staff. Promoted as Champions with two games to spare. Sounds familiar! #lufc
— 𝕋𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕪 (@tommy_lufc) April 16, 2021

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That challenge by Casey in the last minute was phenomenal and you could just see how much it meant.
— Scot (@Scotlufc) April 16, 2021

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#LUFC U23s vs vanillas 2/3
Foreshaw managed 83 mins went off with cramp hopefully or a muscle pull hope not. He was decent biggest flaw is he has tendency to play balls to short for his compatriots
Casey excellent as he’s been all season he and creswell have been outstanding
— Leeds Fan in Chicago (@ChicagoWhite) April 16, 2021

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‘Excellent as he’s been all season’: Some Leeds fans in awe of 20-year-old’s ‘unreal’ Friday display

And plenty of Leeds fans were pleased with Casey’s display, taking to social media to sing his praises: