But Dallas never let Zaha out of his sight and wasn’t going to be tricked again, even if it meant having to tackle him with his head. The winger’s feet moved far too quickly for me to even try to describe the skill that fooled both Leeds defenders, allowing Zaha to escape, but the fans in the north-east corner could only groan in grumpy admiration. At one point in the second half, Dallas appeared to have Zaha trapped in a corner alongside a Leeds teammate.
Dallas was facing a tricky opponent in Wilfried Zaha, at least when Zaha wasn’t falling over or throwing a tantrum. Perhaps Firpo was following Dallas’ lead when he came off the bench against Palace and recovered from a nervous start. After Junior Firpo registered on the De Bock Scale against Brighton, I rewatched LDB’s own comedy show at Derby to see how it compared and found Gaetano Berardi on the opposite side of the defence providing a lesson in the basics of playing full-back. My initial reaction was simply, ‘I fucking love Stuart Dallas.’ Kudos to whoever took the photo, it’s brilliant, encapsulating everything that makes Dallas such a superb bloke. To the left, Stuart Dallas is punching the air, jumping from out of shot and into my heart. Forshaw has his arms outstretched, ready and waiting to embrace the hero, his own haggard relief etched across his face. Rapha is already turned away from the camera, running towards the Kop.
Feeling!!’ The third captures the moment Raphinha’s penalty hit the bottom corner(ish).
A post shared by Adam Forshaw Forshaw eventually stopped me scrolling, posting three photos to Instagram captioned, ‘What.
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