Neil Warnock described Leeds' win at Boro as the 'complete' away performance while Tony Mowbray felt his troops never got started.
Whites boss pleased with away win, Mowbray frustrated
Neil Warnock described Leeds' 2-0 win at Middlesbrough as the 'complete' away performance while Tony Mowbray felt his troops never got started.
The visitors started well and were in firm control with 27 minutes played when Luciano Becchio added a second after Robert Snodgrass' opener.
Boro mounted a late charge at the Riverside, although their chances were hindered by Barry Robson's dismissal for contact with Adam Clayton.
The win moved Leeds four points behind six-placed Cardiff and Warnock wants consistency from his troops to stand a chance of extending their season.
Consistency
"We have to win a number of games now but we're quite capable of that so the players have got to show the consistency that I know they can show to have any chance whatsoever," stated Warnock.
"The next game up (West Ham on Saturday) is fantastic. I said three weeks ago I wanted 30,000 fans at Elland Road, and they'll bring 4,000. I can't wait for that noise."
He added: "I thought from the first minute we were on our game today and I suppose it was almost the complete away performance.
"We did the nasty things well today. The pressure was excellent and we put into practice what we'd talked about before the game and I thought the players enjoyed it.
"Every department did their jobs well, we didn't do anything fancy, we could have made better decisions on the break in the second half to finish it off but it wasn't to be."
Baffled
Boro boss Tony Mowbray was baffled as to why Robson saw red late on, but he conceded his troops never really got going on a Sunday afternoon in the north east.
"I think it was one of those scenarios where the referee was trying to be too clever for his own good," Mowbray said of referee Carl Boyeson.
"He's seen something that might be there or might not be there. If we'd had a more experienced referee he'd have pulled the game up before that and defused the situation.
"Barry had been fouled for about five seconds continuously, having his shirt dragged off him and then the boy (Clayton) scythed him down as Barry was getting up.
"I don't want to make too big an issue out of it because the referee wasn't the reason we lost the game today. He should have shown more common sense, but there you go."
He added: "We didn't get started really today. It's frustrating because I thought they were ready before the game. The nature of the goals was disappointing.
"I felt as though we gifted them the goals, huffed and puffed but couldn't get back into it. I've got to give them some credit for coming and defending well."
