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Minute-by-minute updates on the 2pm (GMT) kick-off Any comments? You can email Billy Aston Villa go into the Champions League places with their sixth win in seven games. Morgan Rogers’ second-half double, the winner a superb free-kick, completes a comeback victory for Unai Emery’s side. Leeds led through Lukas Nmecha after a strong first-half display but could not deal with the quality of Villa, and especially Rogers, after the break. 90+6 min: Barkley tries to hold the ball up high in the Leeds half but loses it. Gnonto brings it forward, finds James, whose cross is cleared by Torres. Rogers wins a foul and has perhaps won the game. 90+5 min: Longstaff’s cross is cleared out to Gnonto, who lays the ball back for James but his shot is blocked. 90+4 min: Leeds make camp on the edge of the Villa box. Cash trips Gnonto and concedes a free-kick for Longstaff to cross … 90+3 min: Gnonto tries to pick out James at the back post but Martínez plucks the ball out the sky and dumps himself on the floor to waste a few seconds. 90+2 min: Malen finds some space and picks out Sancho on the left. Leeds double up on the winger and force him back. Sancho is then flagged for offside and Leeds can come again. 90 min: Six minutes added. Villa try to get forward but Leeds win it back. Longstaff is sent tumbling by Barkley and Leeds attack again. James’s shot is wayward and the danger passes. 88 min: Martínez saves from Struijk! Longstaff’s delivery is so inviting and Struijk heads it down, where Martínez dives to his right to beat it away for a corner. 87 min: Leeds are committing plenty of men forward now. James nips in ahead of Bogarde and wins a free-kick around 30 yards from goal on the right. Longstaff will deliver … 86 min: Bogle sends a cross into the box but Calvert-Lewin’s header is misguided and flies over. 84 min: Malen should seal it! He runs at Striujk, leaves the defender on the floor but blazes high and wide with the goal at his mercy. Tielemans is replaced by Bogarde for Villa. 83 min: The corner is taken short and wasted. Bogle’s cross is then headed clear by Konsa just as it looked like it might reach Piroe. All hands on deck for Villa. 82 min: Leeds put some pressure on the Villa backline. James wins a corner … 80 min: Gnonto and Piroe come off the bench for Leeds, who are far from out of this. Okafor and Aaronson go off. Right call. Calvert-Lewin’s hand is what turns James’s pass into the back of the net. It’s very close to his body but those are the rules. 77 min: Leeds have an immediate response! Rodon finds James racing down the right and his cut-back is cushioned in by Calvert-Lewin! It looks like handball from the Leeds man, though … VAR are examining it. Brilliant! The free-kick looked too close to get it up and down in time but that’s exactly what Morgan Rogers does! He stabs the ball over the wall and it drops into the net, leaving Perri rooted. 74 min: Ampadu launches a long throw into the box but it’s cleared. Rogers then leaves Ampadu, appealing for a foul, on the deck and Villa counter. Barkley is scythed down by Struijk just on the edge of the Leeds area after beating him to the ball. The defender goes into the book. Rogers will take the free-kick … 72 min: Tanaka is a bit miffed at being taken off, having come off the bench himself in the first half. He was booked and diving into plenty of challenges. 71 min: Farke makes changes too. Nmecha and Tanaka are replaced by Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Dan James. 70 min: Tielemans pelts a shot into a body of Leeds players after Sancho and Maatsen made headway down the Villa left. Malen then spins and sends a bobbling shot just wide. 68 min: Mc Ginn goes close! Cutting in on his left foot, he curls a shot but it doesn’t bend quite enough to creep into the far top corner. That’s Mc Ginn’s last involvement as Barkley and Sancho come on. Watkins is also off. 67 min: Okafor sends a ball in behind intended for Nmecha, who is offside. Aaronson scampers after it, gets into the box but then the flag goes up for him as well. Elland Road does not like this. 65 min: Torres gets a tad fortunate after overrunning the ball and bumping into Nmecha. Tanaka is eventually penalised for a foul instead. 63 min: Tielemans makes a break for it but Ampadu puts a stop to that with a challenge that earns him a booking. Rogers takes issue with the Welshman for the nature of the tackle. It was a bit cynical. 62 min: Watkins, Rogers and Malen are enjoying themselves and look to have a proper understanding between the three of them. Watkins is also occasionally filling in for Rogers on the left when Leeds have the ball. 60 min: Villa have got a real foothold in this game, finally, after a meek first-half showing. Leeds are still creating chances but look a lot more vulnerable at the back. 58 min: Mc Ginn pings a cross into the box which Ampadu skews out for a corner. Mc Ginn’s dlivery is headed goalwards by a Leeds head but Perri clutches it from under his crossbar. 56 min: Watkins goes close! The referee waves play on after Tanaka clips Mc Ginn in midfield. The Scot finds Watkins, who reaches the penalty area and tries to find the far corner but Perri gets down well to save. Leeds almost make a hash of clearing it as Malen closes down the loose ball but danger is averted for the moment. Villa win a corner which Mc Ginn will take … 54 min: The free-kick is fed into a dangerous area but Rogers gets his head to it and Villa clear. 53 min: Mc Ginn is penalised again for tripping Gudmundsson on the edge of the box and gets the yellow card that the home crowd have been calling for. Longstaff shapes up to cross … 52 min: Mc Ginn bumps into Gudmundsson, gives away a foul and stifles a disbelieving smile. 50 min: End-to-end stuff at the start of the second half! Watkins heads down the Villa left and feeds the ball into the box. It falls to Kamara but his shot on the edge of the area is blocked. Aaronson then drives at the Villa defence before Konsa wins the ball with a well-timed challenge. Longstaff skews one high and wide from distance. Villa level it! Mc Ginn sends Cash down the right. He finds Malen, who heads to the byline and whips the ball across the six-yard box. Rogers gets the slightest of flicks on it and it flies inside the far post. 46 min: Rogers has come out to the left for Villa, with Malen playing more centrally with Watkins. Mc Ginn tries to find Watkins with a cross but the striker misjudges it and it runs out of play. Villa have made two changes at the break, with Ian Maatsen and Donyell Malen on for Digne and Buendía. “Predicting Leeds will tire in 2nd half and stop pressing so well, ” says Villa fan Dave Slater. “We will need to be patient and play it more into Rogers’s feet. He’s the key” Leeds might have to make the most of their sponsorship deal with Red Bull at the break … Half-time reading comes from John Ashdown at Hillsborough as Sheffield United edged Wednesday in the Steel City derby: Justin Kavanagh emails in: “It’s Sunday. It’s raining. The tackles are flying in. And, it’s possible Mc Ginn might have a hangover from the Scottish celebrations. This game has got a good Sunday league feel to it. ” I’m not complaining, that’s for sure. Plenty of rough and tumble in the first 45 minutes and an aggressive Leeds go in at the break with a narrow lead. The goal itself, touched in by Lukas Nmecha after Emi Martínez had lost out in an aerial challenge with Anton Stach, was a microcosm of the half as a whole as Villa struggled to cope with Leeds’ physical approach. Daniel Farke will be very pleased indeed. 45+6 min: Tanaka goes down rather easily on halfway and the referee buys it. Tielemans is not happy. Leeds have one more chance to lift the ball into the box but Martínez claims it. 45+4 min: Gudmundsson stretches to head a cross behind for a Villa corner. Digne heads over to take an inswinger and Tanaka pumps it clear. 45+3 min: Tanaka flies in again on Kamara and is booked for his troubles this time. 45+2 min: So close from Watkins! Kamara sets the ball back for the Villa striker on the edge of the box and his first-time effort curls just the wrong side of the post. Leeds, I suspect, could do with half-time. They’ve put plenty into this first 45. 45 min: Six minutes of added time. 44 min: Cash snatches at a shot after Mc Ginn and Kamara combine on the edge of the box. Cash’s shot goes wide of the near post. 42 min: The referee goes into his pocket to produce a yellow card for Bogle after he bumps Buendía off the ball in midfield. A bit of a harsh booking in isolation. The free-kick comes to nothing and Unai Emery scratches his chin down on the touchline. 40 min: Okafor stepped on Cash’s hand as they slid towards the byline. Ouch. Longstaff’s corner is headed out by Torres but only to Aaronson, whose low strike is saved well by Martínez down to his left and then gathered. 38 min: Perri shanks a left-footed clearance straight up in the air, like the goalkeepers of old. Leeds get to the loose ball first, as they often have in this first half. Villa’s Cash slides in on Okafor to concede a corner. 36 min: Okafor is next to go down the Leeds left and he floats a cross towards the back post. Nmecha is there but is sandwiched between Torres and Digne and can’t get on the end of it.