‘Failure has now permeated throughout the club’ – Leeds fans react to U23 team’s semi-final loss

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Leeds United crashed out of the Premier League Cup in the semi-final last night as Newcastle United’s U23 side recorded a 3-0 win.

Second-half goals from Kelland Watts, Cal Roberts and Elias Sorensen sealed the victory for Newcastle in front of a big crowd at Guiseley.

Leeds fielded a strong U23 side with several first-team players featuring for the youngsters in this clash.

Kalvin Phillips, Izzy Brown, Jack Clarke, Gaetano Berardi and Bailey Peacock-Farrell were among the players included for the semi-final.

But Leeds failed to progress to the final as Newcastle cruised through. And this was just further frustration for Leeds fans.

The club’s first-team have stuttered over the Easter weekend with back-to-back losses severely denting their automatic promotion hopes.

Leeds fans have become used to the “annual bottle”, as one fan put it, but were frustrated that the U23 team have also fallen just short.

The Whites’ hopes of promotion are not yet over but Sheffield United are in pole position to claim the second automatic promotion spot behind Norwich City.

And after Leeds U23 lost in the Premier League cup, here are some tweets from riled fans.