Leeds United fans have taken to Twitter to criticise Kalvin Phillips for his performance in their 4-3 Championship defeat against Millwall on Saturday.
United appeared set for victory afters staging a brilliant second-half comeback after going into half-time two goals and a man down following the 37th minute dismissal of skipper Liam Cooper for a straight red card.
Pierre-Michel Lasogga, who was handed his first league start since November, missed two good opportunities to put Leeds ahead when the game was 0-0 but he made amends with two second-half goals either side of Kemar Roofe’s 11th of the season as Leeds took a 3-2 lead.
However, Millwall’s late pressure paid dividends as Tom Elliott’s late strike was followed by a deflected winner from Jed Wallace.
United fans raved about the recovery after completely writing off their side on social media at the halfway point of the match.
But supporters were not entirely happy with the performances of their players, with central midfielder Phillips among those who bore some criticism.
The academy product was booked for kicking the ball away late on and will now miss the team’s next two matches through suspension in another damning indictment of Leeds’ disciplinary troubles.
This Is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets:
Viera/Phillips just do not cut it at this level. #lufc
— Vigilante #FBPE (@Was9790) January 20, 2018
Cooper, Phillips and Vieira have been poison so far #LUFC #MOT
— Graham Hoey (@G_Hoey) January 20, 2018
Dreadful from #lufc getting bullied as usual. Phillips anonymous as is Roofe. Defence are all over the place
— Danny Long (@DBauer191) January 20, 2018
we arent going to control any games with vieira and phillips in the middle, good players just not great passers, hopefully foreshaw can help with that. we also cant win games if we cant finish chances or defend or keep a cool head. #lufc
— Alex Brady (@Bazzbawls) January 20, 2018
Embarrassing, Vieira and Phillips absolute garbage, isn’t a poorer midfielder the league than ours #lufc
— Gary (@GazzaF83) January 20, 2018
Phillips. Doing NOTHING! #LUFC
— Danny Long (@DBauer191) January 20, 2018
Midfield is the engine room of any tan but powderpuff duo Phillips/Viera could not dominate a paper bag full of flour #LUFC
— Vigilante #FBPE (@Was9790) January 20, 2018