Leeds finally broke their Tuesday night league hoodoo as Luciano Becchio ensured high flying, big spending Leicester paid the penalty.

Neil Warnock named an unchanged starting line-up to the one that stormed Crystal Palace on Saturday, the only change being Dominic Poleon was dropped from the subs bench in favour of Adam Drury.

The game started with a minutes applause in memory of Gary Speed, the anniversary of his tragic passing falling on the same day as this game. Earlier the special video of Speeds finest moments in a Leeds shirt had been shown again.

In the 11th minute, the crowd broke into a spontaneous chorus of "oh Gary Gary..." which lasted an amazing 11 minutes. By then, Leeds were a goal to the good after Jeff Schlup hacked down Sam Byram in the area after just three minutes and Luciano Becchio struck a well taken penalty past former Whites keeper Kasper Schmeichel.

It was far from an entertaining encounter as Leeds weathered a bit of a Leicestet storm, the visitors going close on 32 when Waghorn smashed in a volley which clipped Kenny's bar.

Leicester began the second half the stronger side and one of their subs Knockaert forced Kenny into a low save. I felt around the hour mark Leeds needed to step back up a gear as Leicester were pegging us back albeit not really creating many decent chances,

Warnock obliged on 61 taking off Jerome Thomas, who had caused problems down the left but looked like he had taken a knock. Veteran Michael Brown came on and provided some reinforcements to midfield.

Credit however must go to David Norris and Paul Green, both worked their socks off and had half chances, Norris blazing one effort over.

Leeds fell foul of the Leicester offside trap for the umpteenth time on 84 when Becchio found the net,as a result Leeds would be in for a nervy few closing minutes. Leicester have notoriously won on this ground with late goals during the past few seasons and a repeat was feared in four minutes of added time when a long punt by Schmeichel and a wicked bounce nearly caught out Kenny. The Danish keeper even joined the attack for the corner, seeking vengeance for the taunts ringing in his ears from the Kop but his header sailed high up over the bar.

Leeds clung on and just about deserved all three points for their battling qualities in midfield, although Nigel Pearson's menhad far more possession they faced a defend superbly marshalled by Alan Tate who's calming demeanour and wealth of experience has clearly benefitted a suspect United defence.

So celebrations all round as Leeds move to 15th just six points off sixth place Hull who ironically were the last away side to experience a Tuesday night League defeat at Elland Road way back on August 16th 2011....their manager that night? Nigel Pearson!

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