Manor Solomon joined Leeds United on a season-long loan from Tottenham Hotspurs last week. The forward had a decent debut against Hull City last weekend.
Solomon played just 74 minutes against the Tigers but his quality shone. He made a darting run down the left flank before putting in a lovely cross for Mateo Joseph to score Leeds’ opener. A second goal from Joel Piroe late in the game was enough to seal all three points at Elland Road.
The Whites sit in fourth place in the championship after two consecutive wins.
Impressive in debut against Hull City
After missing most of the 2023/24 season due to fitness issues, Manor Solomon moved on loan to get some playing time. The forward only managed five appearances in the Premier League last season.
Jamie O’Hara was quite impressed with how the forward played on the weekend:
“He [Solomon]’s alright, I liked him. He’s a good player, he’s good.” he said on TalkSport.
The Spurs loanee played so well that he was awarded the Hisense Player of the Match award after the game.
What Manor Solomon can offer Leeds this season
The Don’t Go To Bed Just Yet podcast panel were raving about Solomon’s performance against Hull City.
“The second half they really got things under control and the second goal killed things off,” Said BBC Radio Leeds’ Adam Pope.
“It became the ideal scenario to display a few new signings and the perfect performance and result to just calm everybody down.
“But, I still stand by that the window was a little bit underwhelming because we just don’t know the quality of the players and what they are going to do.
“However, on first sight, hopefully the recruitment team have gone out and got players who adapt very quickly to this level.
“To get that synergy so quickly with Solomon is brilliant. He was the standout for me. Neal Redfearn gave him man of the match, he was so good. He felt like exactly the player we saw help Fulham take Leeds apart. From minute one he was superb.
“I thought he was going to burn out after an hour but he dropped the shoulder twice and got the perfect cross in and I thought ‘this is a guy who is different level’. I thought he was brilliant on the day, fantastic.”
“I felt like Solomon was interesting,” Kaiser Chiefs bassist Simon Rix added.
Solomon looked like a natural fit in the Leeds team in his first competitive league start since September 2023.
“[Daniel] Farke must have had so much confidence in him to stick him in from the start just like that. He’s not played any football recently and before that was injured for a long time.” Rix said.
“He’s skilful and quick and made a great assist. With the assist as well, it came just when you thought he was drifting out of things and you’re thinking ‘maybe his fitness is not quite there and he needs to come off’.
“It was one of those times where Solomon just decided ‘I’m bored of messing about with this guy, I’m just going to do an excellent cross and we can score’. It felt like he could just do that at anytime and he’d just been messing about up until then.”
