Blackburn Rovers defender Derrick Williams has had chance to reflect on his side’s defeat at the hands of Leeds United at the weekend, claiming Rovers could have taken advantage of the Whites.

Leeds ran out of this game 2-1 victors thanks to goals from Patrick Bamford and then Jack Harrison in the first half, before a swift response from Williams at a corner. The game was largely dominated by the hosts at Elland Road, who had the lion’s share of the chances and limited the visitors to just one shot on goal all game, which was Williams’ headed goal.

Despite this, the centre-back still reflected on the game as if his side were unlucky not to get more when speaking to the club’s website, Williams said this: “We’re very frustrated because we felt Leeds were there for the taking.

"I felt we could have nicked one towards the end in the last 20 minutes or so. It’s disappointing, but it’s a tough place to come and we were solid in the first 20 minutes in particular.

“We felt comfortable at the start and we’re just disappointed by the penalty decision given against us.

“I thought Tosin [Adarabioyo] got a touch of the ball and even the Leeds player didn’t think it was a penalty. It’s frustrating when things like that go against you.”

With the Ireland international’s comments seemingly not telling the full picture of the game’s events, we take a look at three reasons why his reflection is off the mark…

Leeds dominated

Even though the scoreline indicates that Leeds only just edged this contest, the game itself presented a much different story, much like the majority of Leeds games this season.

Despite the fact that Williams believes that Leeds ‘were there for the taking’, it doesn’t change the fact that their only opportunities to test Kiko Casilla in the Leeds goal were from speculative set pieces, to which Leeds poorly dealt with just one of.

The game never seemed to swing in Blackburn’s favour, despite clawing a goal back against the run of play, the away side were always on the back foot and could never build any real momentum or consistency.

The game threatened to run away from them

When Patrick Bamford converted a penalty on the half-hour mark, the game completely opened up in Leeds’ favour and led to gaps emerging all over the pitch for the Whites to exploit, to which they did just five minutes after taking the lead.

Bamford latched onto a searching long ball and diverted it into Jack Harrison’s path who converted coolly from 12 yards, giving Leeds a quick-fire two-goal lead which seemingly put Leeds out of sight early.

It came as a shock to many to see Blackburn nick a goal before half time and make the contest a bit nervier, however, the game soon settled back into Leeds’ control and Rovers’ barely threatened thereon.

The penalty was the correct decision

Williams commented on the moment that apparently swung the momentum, which was the penalty incident, claiming that his side feel it was the wrong decision.

However, he should have no complaints because Tosin Adarabioyo did bring down Luke Ayling in the penalty area without properly playing the ball. If he to have made that foul in the middle of the pitch, there would be no complaints that it is a free-kick, so that logic applies to penalties too.

Also, even though Blackburn had not yet conceded up to this penalty, Leeds still had chances to score and were opening the away side up. A prime example was Stuart Dallas’ wasted chance when he drove from midfield to the edge of the box with acres of space to shoot, but blazing a strike way over the bar.