25-07-12: Bodmin Town (a) 4-0 (HT 3-0) Crowd (3,000)

Luke Varney and Jamie Ashdown made their Leeds debuts in a strong starting line-up. Having attracted a crowd of 2,500 to see their 6-0 hammering of Tavistock just forty-eight hours earlier there seemed slightly more at Priory Park, boosted once more by a large contingent from Leeds. Bodmin named former Crystal Palace keeper, Falmouth-born, Kevin Miller in their side, with Adam Carter providing a target man up front. It was expected that Bodmin would provide much tougher opposition and so it proved with the home side holding their own and there were little or no real chances created in the first fifteen minutes. However, Bodmin arguably creating the better of half-chances. Shane Krac had hit an effort from the edge of the box, which was easily saved by goalkeeper Jamie Ashdown, who joined Leeds from Portsmouth on the previous Monday. They also had optimistic appeals for a penalty turned down when Carter was pulled back by Leeds United trialist Martin Crainie in the box. But despite that a goal was always in the offing from Leeds and after seventeen minutes the hard-working Paul Green broke through the home defence to deliver the perfect cross for debut-boy Luke Varley to rise and head home the opener. It was again Green who who next went close as he had a shot blocked, but it was a prelude to some attacking play from the home side and Sam Matthews foced Jamie Ashdown to a good save. Adam Carter, a prolific scorer in South West Peninsula League football, was also proving to be a worthy opponent for Jason Pearce as the two battled constantly for supremacy. It was Leeds, though, that started to increase the pressure as half wore on. Andy Gray and Paul Green both went close and Ross McCormack had a goal disallowed for offside, which meant that a fine cross from Aidan White was wasted. Four minutes before the interval Andy Gray scored the Leeds second when he finished off after Michael Brown's shot had been blocked. Two minutes after Danny O'Hagan had replaced Chris Luxton for the home side, right on half-time, the third came when Ross McCormack was fouled in the area and took the penalty himself to increase the Leeds lead. The half-time break was the signal for both teams to make several changes with Leeds sending on Danny Pugh for Luke Varney and Dominic Poleon for Ross McCormack, while the home side had Tom Chambers replacing Lewis Reed and Olly Brokenshire coming on for Sam Matthew. United pressed from the restart and added a fourth goal just three minutes into the half after Andy Gray's shot had been partially saved by the keeper, Aidan White made no mistake as he drilled home the rebound. The second half was a little more even, although Martin Crainie had a goal disallowed and Dominic Poleon was lively after being introduced at half time, there were no more goals in the second half and Jamie Ashdown was also called upon to make a couple of good saves. Craig Swiggs replaced Neil Slateford after fifty-six minutes and nine minutes later Zac Thompson replaced Paul Green, Robbie Rogers took over from Aidan White and Ramon Nunez came on for Michael Brown. Three minutes later Darren Gilbert came on for Craig Swiggs and in the seventy-fifth minute Nathan Turner replaced Adam Drury at left-back and two minutes later Sam Byram replaced Tom Lees and with ten minutes left on the clock Lewis Turner replaced Jason Pearce. Lewis Turner went close in the final stages and Ramon Nunez forced Kevin Miller in the home goal to bring off a couple of fine saves. Jack Bartlett, Luke Hodge and Lee Doel remained unused on the home bench.

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