Player Ratings: Who was the star man for Leeds United in 1-0 defeat to Ipswich Town?

LEEDS United fell to a 1-0 defeat at Championship hosts Ipswich Town as the Whites paid the price for seeing Eunan O'Kane sent off in the first half.
COSTLY: Leeds United's Eunan O'Kane clashes with Ipswich Town's with Jonus Knudsen, an incident which led to the midfielder being sent off. Picture by Simon Hulme.COSTLY: Leeds United's Eunan O'Kane clashes with Ipswich Town's with Jonus Knudsen, an incident which led to the midfielder being sent off. Picture by Simon Hulme.
COSTLY: Leeds United's Eunan O'Kane clashes with Ipswich Town's with Jonus Knudsen, an incident which led to the midfielder being sent off. Picture by Simon Hulme.

Our man Phil Hay was on hand - as normal - to rate the individual performances of the Leeds players. Have a scroll down, see if you agree and post your own thoughts in the comments section at the bottom.

Felix Wiedwald - Wasn’t really worked while Leeds had 11 players and pulled off a decent save from Connolly in the second half but had no chance of reaching Celina’s strike. 6/10

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Gaetano Berardi - Back in his preferred position and looked better for it. Pretty comfortable throughout, even in the periods where Ipswich were dominant. 7/10

Pontus Jansson - Hot-headed towards the end but Leeds needed a bit of devilment and his defending under pressure was creditable. 7/10

Liam Cooper - Will replay the chance his missed over and over. Should have scored it. But defensively, Leeds looked resilient. 6/10

Vurnon Anita - Has had harder days at left-back and no fingers could be pointed at him. But De Bock should offer more in attack. 6/10

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Kalvin Phillips - Leeds were good nick for most of the first half and coping well in the spell before Celina scored. Couldn’t avoid losing his footing in the seconds before the goal. 7/10

Eunan O’Kane - Stupid to do what he did when he did. Ipswich were feeling the strain and Leeds were on the front foot. The red card sold United down the river. 3/10

Pawel Cibicki - Missed a veritable sitter, or at the very least a chance he should have scored, and then limped off. Another blow Leeds could have done without. 5/10

Pablo Hernandez - Excellent from the start, passing cleverly and making the most of possession when it came to him. The cross to Cooper was a gift. 8/10

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Gjanni Alioski - Despite Leeds’ first-half pressure, Alioski wasn’t really at the centre of it and he made way as Christiansen altered his team at the interval. 5/10

Kemar Roofe - Couldn’t take a good opportunity before the break but produced some intelligent runs off the ball and helped to keep Leeds going forward. 6/10.

Substitutes:

Hadi Sacko (for Cibicki, 28) - A good display from him, particularly once Leeds were down to 10 men. Ran and hustled and did what needed to be done. 7/10

Conor Shaughnessy (for Alioski, 46) - A bit of a hospital pass for the youngster but provided a platform and fared much better than he had at Birmingham. 6/10

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Pierre-Michel Lasogga (for Anita, 78) - Looked far more interested than he was at Newport and unlucky not to snatch a point at the death. 6/10

Subs (not used): Andy Lonergan, Stuart Dallas, Mateusz Klich, Jay-Roy Grot.

Referee: Robert Jones - A big call with the red card but was very certain about it. Leeds didn’t get much from him but he did well to resist pressure to show Jansson a second yellow late on. 6/10

Attendance: 18,638