Kemar Roofe discusses Leeds United’s play-off heartache

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Kemar Roofe has been discussing Leeds United’s play-off failure from last season. The striker scored in the first-leg against Derby County as Leeds dominated the away fixture. 

However, he missed the second leg through injury, as Derby came from 3-0 down on aggregate to go through 4-3 in heartbreaking fashion. 

Leeds United’s self-implosion had already seen the club drop out of the automatic promotion places within which they had sat for the majority of the season and Roofe was clearly devastated by the result, as he told the i this week. 

“It was heart-breaking. We were all devastated. When we went into the dressing room after the last game, it was like a funeral in there. No one knew what to say. It was not so much that we missed out, but the way that we missed out and the fact that we’d put in so much hard work to get there as well. We didn’t just get there by fluke.”

Roofe has since left Leeds. With just one year remaining on his contract at the club, Leeds decided to cash in and sell the forward to Anderlecht for a fee reportedly (Goal) in the region of £7 million.

But he made it clear that he is happy to see how impressive Leeds have been yet again this season under Marcelo Bielsa’s tutelage and that his love for the club is unlikely to ever leave. 

“It’s good to see. They’ve obviously still got a place in my heart. I’ll always be following them, watching them and supporting them. I think when you’ve played for a club like that, it’s hard not to. It becomes part of you.”

Leeds United fans will just be hoping that they get the chance to finish off what they started last season, and help the club find their way back to the Premier League.