Bamford: Patrick James (Patrick)

2018-Current (Leeds Player Details) (Player Details)

Striker

Born: Grantham, Lincolnshire: 05-09-1993

Debut: v Derby County (a)(Substitute):11-08-2018

6'2" 13st 1lb (2018)

Although born in Grantham Lincolnshire he was raised in Norwell, Nottinghamshire, and and while he played junior football with Muskham Cougars in nearby Newark, and was accepted into the Nottingham Forest Academy from the age of eight, when he attended Nottingham High School, he found that he was restricted to Ruby Union by that school and did well as a full-back in that code. Academically he excelled and when he had done his GCSE "A" level he was offered a football scholarship at Harvard University but rejected it to pursue his football career with the Nottingham Forest Academy, where he had continued despite the lack of school football until 2011. He was a second-half substitute against Chelsea in the Youth Cup back in 2010 when still a sixteen-year-old. That was another season in which Chelsea won the competition. He had Irish ancestry and was called up for the Irish Under-Eighteen team in August 2010 for the Under-18 Vaclav Jezek International Tournament in the Czech Republic. He started in the second game against Ukraine, but he had the misfortune of seeing his penalty saved in what proved to be his only game for the Irish Republic. Three months later, on 16th November 2010 at Adams Park, Wycombe, he replaced Saido Berahino after sixty-eight minutes and played twenty-two minutes in a 3-0 win over Poland. On 12th April 2011 he gain his second and final England Under-Eighteen cap when he came on at the start of the second half as a replacement for Jamaal Lascelles at Stadio Sandro Cabassi, Carpi, Italy in a 1-1 draw with Italy. In pre-season for the 2011-12 season, he scored a hat-trick against Chelsea in a youth team friendly, and in the FA Youth Cup for his former club he scored five times in a 9-1 win over Wigan Athletic at the City Grounds on 21st January 2012 and in addirtion provided three assists. It was Bamford who got things going early on, as he played through Ben Osborn, who was brought down in the area. Bamford stepped up to convert the penalty past Wigan goalkeeper Calvin Hare, to give Forest the lead after just five minutes. Forest added a second just five minutes later when Jack Blake’s header crashed against Hare’s bar, but midfielder Kieran Wallace was in the right place to convert the rebound. Forest had started very brightly and the were completely dominating the game. Wigan did get back into the game after nineteen minutes as Left- back Darius Waters cut inside and delivered an in-swinging cross with his right foot, but when Forest centre-back Kieron Fenton attempted to clear, the ball skidded off his shin and spun into the corner of the Forest net, despite a valiant attempt by Dimitar Evtimov. More good work from Forest saw Bamford find David Morgan in space, but his goal- bound effort was blocked spectacularly by Wigan defender Patrick Christian. Forest restored their two goal advantage when Hare saved Jack Blake’s low swerving shot but could only direct it into the path of Bamford who crashed in the rebound off the bar. Despite several near misses Forest went to half-time with only a 3-1 lead. They started the second-half in strong fashion, after just twenty seconds, Forest had a fourth and Bamford claimed his hat-trick in fantastic style. Morgan’s long ball over the top wasn’t dealt with and Bamford brought the ball down brilliantly with his first touch, rounded the keeper and slotted home under the challenge of a Wigan defender. Blake then shot just wide, before Forest made it 5-1. Kieran Wallace’s played a through ball to Bamford who, with a turn of pace, reached the byline, before cutting the ball back to Ben Osborn to sweep home. It was 6-1 just four minutes later, with the impressive Blake getting his name on the score sheet. A dogged tackle from Wallace won Forest the ball back on the edge of the area and he played in Bamford who, after taking on one defender again, selflessly squared the ball for Blake to slot into the corner. After just ten second half minutes, Forest had scored three goals. Bamford was then denied a spectacular fourth by the underside of the bar after a great turn and left foot shot inside the area. Bamford was then denied by Hare, as the striker latched onto Blake’s defence splitting pass, but could only shoot straight at the keeper. Morgan then produced another great ball over the top of the Wigan defence to find Bamford, who had made a brilliant run, and his first time volley went in off the bar giving him his fourth of the night. Bamford then grabbed his third assist of the night, after skilfully getting round Darius Waters before squaring the ball to Osborn to tap in with ease, an almost carbon copy of his first goal. It was then man-of-the- match Bamford who rounded off the game in style. After neat passing between Kamaneno and Ackroyd, the latter crossed into the near post and Bamford, showing great desire, got across his marker to tap in his fifth. On 26th January 2012 Forest went to St Mary's and won easily by defeating Southampton 5-1 with Bamford again excelling with four goals. Because of his involvement with Forest, Bamford was then cup-tied from Chelsea's own Youth Cup campaign as they went on to win the trophy, beating Forest 4-3 along the way. Bamford had been introduced to the Forest first team, firstly sitting as an unused substitute on 20th September 2011 in a 3-4 home defeat, by 3-4 on penalties, after extra-time, by Newcastle United in the League Cup third round. He was then twice a late substitute in the Championship firstly on 31st December 2011in a 0-1 home defeat by Cardiff City, in which he replaced Matt Derbyshire and played just eleven minutes. Then a couple of days later, on 2nd January 2012 at Portman Road he came on for just one minute in the third minute of injury time as a replacement for Andy Reid in a 3-1 win over Ipswich Town. In his first half-season at Chelsea, he played wide at times, once on the left and twice on the right, in a front three with Romelu Lukaku the centre-forward, but also was given the main strikers' role on three occasions as he scored six goals in seven reserve games after makinf his Reserve debut on 20th February 2012 in a 3-2 home win over Fulham in which he played a full game on the left and scored the winner from the spot, in the seventieth minute after he had been brought down in the area. He played full games with two minor exceptions, which were the next two games on 5th March 2012 in a 0-2 home defeat by Arsenal, when he gave way to Ismael Seremba in the eightieth minute and on 20th March 2012 in a 4-2 win at Newcastle United when Adam Coombes replaced him in the seventy-first minute. He scored in each of the final four games, firstly in a 2-2 draw at Swansea City on 28th March 2012 when he got the first equaliser in the seventieth minute, then in a 2-3 defeat at Molineux by Wolverhampton Wanderers on 3rd April 2012 when he opened the scoring in the twelfth minute, then in a 2-2 draw at Wigan Athletic on 10th April 2012, in the third minute of the second half as he gave Chelsea a 2-1 lead, and finally on 23rd April 2012 in a 1-4 home defeat by Manchester United, when he scored the consolation goal with five minutes left on the clock. Bamford had made his debut for England Under Eighteens in November 2010 and after his move to Chelsea he graduated to England Under-Nineteens. He made his debut on 28th February 2012 as a substitute for Harry Kane after the half time break at the Matchroom Stadium, Brisbane Road, Leyton, London. He made the score 2-0 in the sixty-fifth minute in a 2-1 win over Czech Republic Under-Nineteens in a Friendly International. He was then unused on the bench in a 5-0 win at Deepdale, Preston on 25th May 2012 over Slovenia Under-Nineteens in Group Two of the UEFA Under- Nineteens Championship Elite Qualifying Round in England. He gained his second cap when he started at Spotland Stadium, Rochdale two days later in the same competition as England drew 1-1 with Montenegro Under-Nineteens. In the 2012-13 season he continued to gain experience with the Chelsea Under-Twenty-One team until he was loaned to MK Dons on 22nd November 2012 for the rest of the season. By that time he had scored four goal in ten starts for the Chelsea Premier League 2 team and after his spell at MK Dons, he returned to play in the 1-0 home win over Blackburn Rovers in the Under-Twenty-One Premier League Qualifications group 1. He made his debut for Milton Keynes Dons on 24th November 2012 in a 5-1 home win over Colchester United, and while he did not score himself, he did set up two for others as he started and played sixty -nine minutes before being replaced by Ryan Lowe. He started eleven and came on as a substitute on three occasions. He scored four goals. The first on 19th March 2013, when he opened the scoring in the thirty-first minute in a 1-2 defeat at Crewe Alexandra. His second came in the seventh minute of a 2-0 win at Hartlepool United, when he opened the scoring. The third gave MK Dons a 2-0 lead in the seventy-eighth minute in a game they won 2-0 at Colchester United. The Fourth was the opener in the thirty-third minute of a 2-0 win at Stevenage FC on 27th April 2013. Bamford was then loaned from Chelsea to Milton Keynes Dons from 1st July 2013 to 5th January 2014 and subsequently to Derby County from 6th January 2014 to 25th May 2014. In the League One he started twenty-two and came on as a substitute once and scored fourteen goals, while he started three in the F.A. Cup and scored once, in the League Cup started twice and scored once, and similarlt started twice and scored once in the Football League Trophy. With Derby County he started fourteen and came on as a substitute seven times and sat unused on the bench once as he found the net eight times in the Championship and in the Championship play-offs he was twice a substitute and sat unused on the bench once, without scoring. He played his first game on his second loan stint at Milton Keynes Dons on 3rd August 2012 in a 0-0 draw at Shrewsbury Town when he came on as a substitute for Jason Banton in the fifty-third minute. He started the next game, a week later, in a 1-0 home win over Crewe Alexandra and got the only goal of the game in the twentieth minute, before being replaced by Izale McLeod with eight minutes to go. After that he started and finished all games that he played and the goals continued at regular intervals. His second came in the fifty-second minute to get the first equaliser in a 2-2 draw at home to Bristol City on 24th August 2013. His third was the equaliser in the fifty-fifth minute of a 1-1 draw at home to Swindon Town, on 7th September 2013. A week later he scored his fourth when he got the final goal, two minutes into injury time, of a 3-1 win at home to Notts County. His fifth and sixth goal came on 28th September 2013 in a 4-1 home win over Stevenage FC, when he opened the score in the twelfth minute and gave MK Dons a 2-0 lead ten minutes later. His seventh and eighth came in a 2-3 defeat at Gillingham on 5th October 2013, as he gave MK Dons a chance as he scored both their goals to make it 1-2 in the twenty-sixth minute and 2-2 just four minutes later, but it was to no avail. a week later he made it nine as he opened the scoring in the thirtieth minute but Leyton Orient came back to claim a 1-2 home win. The tenth was in the 3-2 home win over Rotherham United on 19th October 2013 as he got the winner two minutes from time. It was not until the 23rd November that the eleventh goal arrived and it levelled the score at 1-1 in the thirty-sixth minute but Bradford City made the score 2-3 for a home defeat. the remaining three came in consecutive games on 14th December 2013 with the opener in the thirty-first minute of a 2-0 away win at Wolverhampton Wanderers, then a week later, the final goalin the thirty-second minute, in a 3-0 home win over Port Vale, and finally the second goal in a 2-0 win at Crawley Town as he found the net in the fifty-ninth minuteon 26th December 2013. His other goals came in the League Cup on 27th August 2013 when he got the opener in the seventh minute in a 2-4 loss at Sunderland but was replaced by Jon Otsemobor after sixty-seven minutes. Then on 3rd September 2013 with the opening goal in the fifty-fourth minute in the Football League Trophy when he opened the scoring after fifty-four minutes in a 2-0 home win over Northampton Town. The F.A. Cup was the final goal in the eighty-fourth minute of a 3-3 draw on 4th January 2014 at Wigan Athletic. With Derby County, he had joined a club well in the hunt for promotion from the Championship to the EPL. He started fourteen games came on as a substitute seven times and sat unused on the bench once and scored eight goals. He was also a substitute in two Championship play-off games and sat unused on the bench in another. While he was quite a regular starter it was spasmodic and only started and finished four games, leaving seventeen in which he either didn't start or didn't finish! He did score eight goals in the Championship and like always they came at regular intervals. He made his debut for County on 10th January 2014 in a 1-4 defeat by League leaders Leicester City when he replaced Simon Dawkins after fifty-five minutes. He again replaced Dawkins, this time on the hour, eight days later in a 1-0 home win over Brighton and Hove Albion and in the seventy-sixth minute he got the only goal of the game. He then scored in the next three consecutive games, scoring the equaliser in the eighty-fourth minute, twenty minutes after replacing Jamie Ward, in a 1-1 draw at Blackburn Rovers. He made the score 1-2 in the fiftieth minute of a 3-2 home win over Yeovil Town before bein replaced by Johnny Russell with a minute of normal time left. He then made it four when he equalised the scores at 1-1 in the forty-ninth minute of a 3-3 draw at Birmingham City in which Johnny Russell replaced him in the seventy-eighth minute. His fifth came almost immediately, in fact on the 18th February 2014, when he scored the only goal of the game at Hillsborough in the seventy-eighth minute against Sheffield Wednesday. The remaining three goals came quickly in four games in late March and early April 2014. The first in the first minute of the away 1-2 defeat at Ipswich Town on 25th March 2014, when things got worse after the flying start and Bamford was replaced by Conor Sammon after seventy-five minutes. Four days later he scored the second goal in in the thirty-eighth minute of a 3-0 win over Charlton Athletic at home a-in which he was later replaced by Conor Sammon after seventy-one minutes. His final goal came on 8th April 2014 in a 3-1 away win at Blackpool when he made the score 2-1 in the fourteenth minute before being injured in the seventy-seventh minute and replaced by Conor Sammon. He had progressed to the England Under-Twenty-One team and made his debut as a substitute on 19th November 2013 at the New Meadow Stadium, Shrewsbury for Tom Ince after sixty-five minutes in a 9-0 demolition of San Marino in the UEFA European Under-21 2015 Championship Qualifying Group 1. He was an unused substitute in the same competition on 10th October 2014 in a 2-1 win over Croatia Under-Twenty-Ones in the first leg play-off game. His second cap came in a Friendly International with Portugal Under-Twenty-One at Turf Moor, Burnley on 13th November 2014, when he replaced Danny Ings with eleven minutes of normal playing time remaining. He was once more unused on the bench four days later at Stade Francis-Le Ble in Brest, France as England were beaten 2-3 by France in another Friendly. Bamford moved to Middlesbrough on loan for the 2014-15 season, which would again proved fruitful. He played just one game at Stamford Bridge. It was in the Premier League 2, on 15th August 2014, in a 2-1 home win over Manchester City Under-Twenty-Ones in which he was replaced by Dominic Solanke after sixty-six minutes. After that he went north for the rest of the season, signing the loan papers on 29th August 2014, he was initially due to return on 1st January 2015. However on 31st December 2014 the loan was extended to the end of the season. He was named the Championship’s Player of the season award and in that League he started thirty-two games, came off the bench six times and remained unused on the bench twice and scored seventeen goals. He also started twice, and played a full game in each, in the Championship Play-Offs, in which he also sat unused on one occassion. He also started three times in the F.A. Cup and scored one goal, while in the League Cup he came on once as a substitute and got one goal. He made his Boro debut on 30th August 2014 in a 0-1 home defeat by Reading as a substitute, when he replaced Lee Tomlin in the fifty-ninth minute. This was followed by two more appearances in a substitute role on 13th September 2014 in a 2-1 away win at Huddersfield Town, when he replaced Kike in the seventy-seventh minute and three days later when he replaced the same player for just three minutes as Boro won 1-0 at Cardiff City. He made his starting debut on 20th September 2014 in a 4-0 win over Brentford and he got the third goal to record his first goal for Boro in the sixty-eighth minute before being replaced by Kike eight minutes later. He then had an interesting introduction to the League Cup as he replaced Grant Leadbitter, eight minutes before the end of extra time in the match at Anfield against Liverpool on 23rd September 2014. He was on the pitch long enough to get brought down in the area by Kolo Toure three minutes into injury time at the end of normal time. He converted it himself to make the score 2–2 as he beat Simon Mignolet, and sent the game into a penalty shootout. The keeper had better luck in the shoot out as he saved Bamford's shot from the spot. That was not the end. The sides were still locked at 12-12 after Raheem Stirling had also failed to score. This meant sudden death and Bamford was the first choice and he converted to to make it 13-13. It got to 15-15 before Suso made it 16-15 for the home side but Albert Adomah missed for Boro to leave Liverpool the winners. He then played two full games in the Championship without scoring at Charlton Athletic and at home to Blackpool, before he was restricted to the bench at Brighton and Hove Albion. He started at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers and at Watford but was replaced long after the hour mark in the game on both occasions. It wasn't until 1st November 2014 that he next found the net with the opening goal, in the eighth minute, of a 3-0 win at Rotherham United before being replaced by Jelle Vossen, after seventy-three minutes. He then added a further five in the next six games even though he did not always start or finish those fixtures. He opened the scoring in the fifth minute of a 4-0 home win over Norwich City before being replaced by Jelle Vossen, after seventy-five minutes. He didn't find the net as AFC Bournemouth hed Boro 0-0 at the Riverside and he gave way to Albert Adomah in the sixty-eighth minute. He did not start the next game on 22nd November 2014 in a 1-1 draw at Wigan Athletic but replaced Adam Reach after fifty-six minutes and two minutes later he equalised in a 1-1 draw at Wigan Athletic. A week later he played a full game and opened the scoring in the eighty-first minute of a 1-1 draw at home to Blackburn Rovers and the following week in a 5-1 win at Millwall he scored the second goal in the twenty-eighth minute in another full game. On 13th December 2014 he carried on the sequence when he opened the scoring after just six minutes in a 2-0 home win over Derby County and also won the penalty from which Grant Leadbitter netted the second, after sixty-three minutes, before being replaced after seventy-four minutes by Kike. But then he failed to score in his next five games, three of which were full games, however, in the middle of those games, on 31st December he extended his loan until the end of the season. He broke his drought when he scored his eighth League goal of the season as he opened the scoring in the sixty-third minute of a 2-1 home win over Cardiff City on 20th January 2015. This was quickly followed by a famous victory in the F.A. Cup four days later, when he opened the scoring in the fifty-third minute of a 2-0 win over EPL Champions, Manchester City, at the Etihad Stadium and also made the second, which Kike netted three minutes into injury time at the end of the game. He again opened the scoring in the sixth minute of a 3-1 home win over Charlton Athletic on 7th February 2015 for his ninth, before being replaced by Adam Forshaw in the seventy-second minute. On 18th February 2015, he scored the Boro goal to equalise in the seventy-fourth minute of a 1-1 draw at Birmingham City and then went three games without scoring before he hit another rich seam, which saw him go to eleven with the opener in a the twenty-sixth minute of a 3-0 home win over Millwall on 3rd March 2015. on 14th March he added two more to take him to thirteen when he made the score 3-1 in the sixty-fourth minute and then to the final score of 4-1 fifteen minutes later in a home game with Ipswich Town. Three days later he got the only goal of the game in the sixty-fourth minute of an away win at Derby County. His goal, in the twentieth minute, again gave maximum points in a home win over Wigan Athletic on 3rd April 2015. His sixteenth League goal in a 2-0 home win over Rotherham United on 11th April 2015, was Boro's second of the game and came in the sixty-sixth minute, while his seventeenth gave Boro a 2-0 lead in the eleventh minute of a 2-1 home win over Wolverhampton Wanderers three days later. Boro finished fourth in the table with Eighty-five points, one behind third-placed Norwich City and five behind Champions Bournemouth and four behind second-placed Watford who also gained automatic promotion. Seven points behind Boro came Brentford and Ipswich Town in the other two play-off positions. On 8th May he played a full game in a 2-1 away win at Brentford, but sat unused on the bench as they duly went to the final with a convincing 3-0 home win in the second leg. He played a full game in the Final at Wembley on 25th May 2015, but Boro could not take the final step as Norwich City scored twice without reply. On 21st July 2015 he signed a new three year contract with Chelsea and then joined Crystal Palace on a season-long loan. He had a successful pre-season with Palace and was included in the squad for the opening day 8th August 2015 in a 3-1 win at Norwich City, but he remained unused on the bench.On 16th August 2015 he was again in the squad in the 1-2 home loss to Arsenal and came on as a substitute for James McArthur with ten minutes left on the clock. He made his Palace starting debut on 25th August in a 4-1, after extra-time, home win over Shrewsbury in the League Cup, when he was replaced after seventy-four minutes by Glenn Murray. His only other start came in the Fourth Round of the League Cup in a 1-5 defeat at Manchester City in which he was replaced by Marcus Gayle in the seventy-seventh minute on 28th October 2015. He did get half a game when he replaced Marouane Chamakh at half-time in a 0-0 home draw with Swansea City on 28th December 2015, but he was just not getting enough playing time and so he decided to return to Stamford Bridge the same day. While at Palace he had not started a game in the EPL but had come off the bench on six occasions and been unused on the bench on eight occasions but had also failed to find the net. He had, however started twice and come off the bench once in the League Cup, but had not scored. On 30th January 2016 he joined Norwich City on loan until the end of the season. Once more he was unable to extablish himself with any kind of stability in the squad. He made his debut as a substitute in a 0-2 loss at Aston Villa on 6th February 2016, when he replaced Wes Hoolahan after fifty-six minutes. A week later he was an unused substitute in a 2-2 home draw with West Ham United. A fortnight later he managed one minute in a 0-1 defeat at Leicester City after replacing Cameron Jerome. Then he replaced Steven Naismith in the sixty-fourth minute in another 0-1 away defeat at Swansea City on 5th March 2016. A week later he started for the Canaries for the first time and played sixty-seven minutes before being replaced by Dieumerci Mbokani in a 0-0 home draw with Manchester City. He started again in the next game in a 1-0 win at West Bromwich Albion a week later and this time managed seventy-two minutes before being replaced by Steven Naismith. That was to be his last start and it was followed by a game unused on the bench on 2nd April 2016 in a 3-2 home win over Newcastle United and two other games a a substitute when he replaced Steve Naismith for twenty-four minutes in a 0-1 loss at Crystal Palace on 9th April 2016 and Cameron Jerome for twelve minutes in a 0-1 home loss to Manchester United on 7th May 2016. At Carrow Road he started two, came on as a substitute five times was an unused substitute twice and did not score. On 26th August 2016 Bamford joined Burnley on a season-long loan in another bid to get EPL experience. Once again it ended in disappointment, as he never started a game and the longest duration he had on the field was eleven minutes in six appearances.He made his debut at Turf Moor on 10th September 2016 when he replaced Andre Gray with ten minutes left on the clock in a 1-1 draw with Hull City. A week later in a 0-3 defeat at Leicester City he replaced the same player but had one minute more. His next two games in a 2-0 home win over Watford and a 0-1 home defeat by Arsenal saw him unused on the bench, and then he managed nine minutes in place of George Boyd on 16th October 2016 in a 1-3 defeat at Southampton. Six days later it was even less with just one minute in place of Sam Vokes in a 2-1 home win over Everton.He remained on the bench on five of the six games he was next included in the squad and even then on 14th December 2016 he did not make the field until four minutes into injury time to replace Scott Arfield in a 0-1 defeat at West Ham United. In his final game he was restricted to just two minutes in place of the same player in a 1-2 defeat at Manchester City on 2nd January 2017. It was quite apparent that he was not on Burnley's Managers' list of favourites and like with Crystal Palace he made it clear he could get more playing time elsewhere and he was recalled to Stamford Bridge on 14th January 2017. Middlesbrough showed immediate interest and on 18th January 2017 Bamford joined the Premier League team on a four and a half year contract for a fee of £5.5Million So he left Stamford Bridge without making a single appearance at the first team level and he left Turf Moor without starting a single EPL game but making six appearances as a substitute and sat on the bench unused in another seven games, without scoring. He made his debut on his second period with Middlesbrough, or the first as a full Middlesbrough player, on 21st January 2017 in a 1-3 home loss to West Ham United when he replaced Cristhian Stuani ten minutes before time. Ten days letter he played his second game in a 1-1 home draw with West Bromwich Albion when he replaced the same player in the sixty-ninth minute. Four days later in a 0-1 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur he replaced Adama Traore eleven minutes before time and on 5th April 2017, in a 2-4 defeat at Hull City, he played nineteen minutes as a replacement for Alvaro Negredo and three days later he played seven minutes in a 0-0 home draw with his previous club of the season, Burnley when he replaced Bernardo Espinosa. He was then unused on the bench for three home games with Arsenal, Sunderland and Manchester City, before he came on as a substitute for Adama Traore in the fifty-seventh minute, in a 0-3 defeat by his old club, Chelsea, at Stamford Bridge. He then started his first games since joining Boro in a 1-2 home defeat by Southampton on 13th May 2017 which he celebrated by scoring his first EPL goal to get the Boro consolation goal in the seventy-second minute. He also played a full game in the final game on 21st May 2017 at Anfield as they lost 0-3 to Liverpool. It was their final game in the EPL as they were relegated as they finished 19th with Twenty-eight points, four more than bottom club Sunderland and six behind the third relegated team in Hull City, who were six points adrift from safety. He had started twice, been a substitute six times and unused on the bench three times while scoring once in the EPL, while in the F.A. Cup he had started one and and been unused on the bench once. His 2017-18 season started on the bench and coming on as a fifty-seventh minute substitute for Ashley Fletcher in a 0-1 defeat by Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux on 5th August 2017. He then played a full game as Boro beat Sheffield United 1-0 at the Riverside a week later on the right wing and continued in that role, three days later, as he started in a 2-0 home win over Burton Albion and played seventy-seven minutes before being replaced by Adama Traore. He maintained that role as he started in the 1-2 away defeat at Nottingham Forest on 19th August 2017, when he was replaced by Lewis Baker in the sixty-second minute. He then dropped to the bench and a week later he replaced George Friend in the fifty-fifth minute of a 0-0 home draw with Preston North End. He then got fourteen minutes as Stewart Downing's replacemen in a 3-0 away win at Bolton Wanderers on 9th September 2017. He then sat unused on the bench for two games before starting on the right wing in the Third Round of the League Cup in a 2-0 win at Villa Park over Aston Villa on 19th September 2017.Third Round. This was memorable for several reasonsnot leasof which was that he played a full game and also opened his goal account for the season with both goals. The first came in the fifty-eighth minute from the spot and the second nine minutes later. He was at Centre Forward in a 1-1 draw in the League at Fulham but gave way to Ashley Fletcher with fourteen minutes left on 23rd September 2017. Apart for a full game in the League Cup Fourth Round in a 1-3 defeat at Bournemouth on 24th October 2017, that was his last start for a long while and it was only after eight games as a minor substitute that he started his next League game at Centre Forward. He answered the call by scoring his first League goal of the season in a 2-0 home win over Ipswich Town on 9th December 2017, when he scored the second goal in the fifty-first minute, before giving way to Rudy Gestede with ten minutes to go. He then had three successive starts in the League with a full game in a 1-2 loss at Millwall on 16th December 2017 and, a week later, he played all but seven minutes, as he gave way to Rudy Gestede and then on Boxing day he played another full game in a 2-0 home win over Bolton Wanderers. He was back on the bench as Rudy Gestede took over the striker's role but came on to replace him in the sixty-ninth minute of a 0-1 home defeat by Aston Villa on 30th December 2017. He was back to the bench for the 3-2 win at Deepdale over Preston North End on 1st January 2018, replaced Adlene Guedioura after fifty minutes, but remained unused on 13th January 2018 in a 0-1 home defeat by Fulham. He then played on the left wing for a while and in the following week he started but was replaced by Adam Clayton after seventy-two minutes in a 3-0 away win at Queens Park Rangers. A week later he had a full game as Boro were eliminated 0-1 at the Riverside by Brighton and Hove Albion in the F.A. Cup Fourth Round. Then on 30th January 2018 he was replaced after seventy-eight minutes by Rudy Gestede in a 0-0 home draw with Sheffield Wednesday. Then on 3rd February 2018, he was replaced by Jonathan Howson in the sixty-third minute of a 0-1 away defeat at Norwich City and a week later he was still on the left wing in a 2-1 home win over Reading and played sixty-six minutes before being replaced by Adam Clayton. He was back on the bench on 17th February 2018 and only replaced Rudy Gestede at Centre Forward for the final six minutes of a 0-1 away loss at Cardiff City. It had been a depressing sequence but for one reason or another he had failed to score in many matches to date, but that was all to change as he went on a fine vein of form and goalscoring for most of the rest of the season. He started on the left wing, on 20th February 2018, in the 3-1 home win over Hull City and he found the net for the first time since 9th December 2017 when he made the score 2-1 just on half time, before being replaced by Jonathan Howson in the seventy-first minute. Four days later, he again started on the left wing and played a full game as Boro drew 3-3 at Sunderland and he levelled the scores at 1-1 in the forty-ninth minute before putting Boro into a 3-2 lead in the sixty-eighth minute as he bagged a brace. He went one better on 2nd March 2018 when he scored all three goal in a 3-0 home win over Leeds United. He started as Centre Forward and repaid the faith shown by Tony Pulis in scoring his first hat-trick with goals in the thirty-first, thirty-sixth and sixty -eighth minutes. He followed this up four days later with the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win at Birmingham City, which he netted six minutes before half-time before being replaced by Britt Assombalonga in the seventy-seventh minute. On 10th March 2018 he netted the third Boro goal in the fifty-ninth minute of a 3-1 win at home to Barnsley, as he kept his centre-forward spot until Britt Assombalonga replaced him one minute into injury time. A week later he played a full game at centre-forward in a 1-1 draw at Brentford, but, for once, he did not find the net. He did find the net in the next game as he played centre forward for a full game in a 1-2 home defeat by Wolverhampton Wanderers when he got a consolation goal four minutes into injury time. His efforts were recognised, as he was nominated for the EFL Championship Player of The Month award for March 2018, however it was given to Fulham's Striker Aleksandar Mitrovic. He then had another barren spell until the final game of the season when he got the Boro second equaliser six minutes into injury time in a 2-2 away draw at Ipswich Town on 6th May 2018. Boro finished well off the pace in fifth place and it came as little surprise when they failed to survive the play-offs. In a two-legged semi final against fourth placed Aston Villa they lost the home leg 0-1 on 12th May 2018 as he came on as a substitute for Britt Assombalonga, fourteen minutes from time and three days later at Villa Park there was no score as he was given just twenty-two minutes in place of Britt Assombalonga. In the season. he had started twenty-three League games, been a substitute in sixteen and unused on the bench in three as he found the net on eleven occasions. He had twice been a substitute in the Championship play -offs, started once in the F.A. Cup, and twice in the League Cup and scored twice in that competition. On 31st July 2018, Bamford signed for Leeds United on a four year contract at a fee of £7 million. He was given the #9 shirt, but was on the bench for the Leeds opening game of the season in a 3-1 home win over Stoke City on 5th August 2018. He made his debut as a substitute six days later as Leeds won 4-1 at Derby County, replacing Kemar Roofe after seventy-nine minutes. He went on to make five substitute appearances as a replacement for Kemar Roofe in the Championship and also twice started in the League Cup. His debut in that competition came in a 2-1 home win over Bolton Wanderers and it was he that opened the scoring in the twenty-seventh minute as he opened his goalscoring account before being replaced by Kemar Roofe in the eightieth minute. He also played a full game in the same competition in the 0-2 home defeat by Preston North End. Unfortunately disaster struck on Friday, 7th September 2018, in an Under-Twenty-three home fixture with Bristol City. He had opened the scoring and Leeds went on to win 5-0, but he had to leave the field after thirty minutes and later diagnosis showed he had suffered a posterior cruciate ligament injury and was likely to be out of action for about four months. Leeds’ head of medicine and performance, Rob Price, said the club are seeking the best treatment available to get him back fit as soon as possible. “Patrick is a very fit footballer and whilst this is a setback for all concerned, we have spoken to some of the best consultants in the country to make the correct diagnosis quickly. It seemed asthough it would be January 2019 before he could contemplate a return.

(To 2017/18)