Da Costa sees red as Bury sink Leeds

Leeds United (1) 1 Bury (2) 2

An action-packed first half saw Leon Constantine take only 8 minutes to open his United account on his first full start for the club. The striker chased through a ball over the top and held off some tenacious defending before producing an excellent strike to hand Leeds the lead.

Despite Dennis Wise's side holding the ascendancy it was Bury who forced the equaliser on 24 minutes as United's recent frailty from set-pieces was once again exposed. Brian Barry-Murphy's corner was met by the head of Ben Futcher to haul the Shakers level. Within 5 minutes Chris Casper's side had turned the game on it's head when Andy Bishop powered home after the Leeds defence had failed to clear another Barry-Murphy corner.

To make matters worse Filipe Da Costa was given a straight red card after 41 minutes of his first start for the club following a foul on Paul Scott. And the half time whistle could not come quickly enough for stand-in boss Dave Bassett, as David Prutton went into the referees book for the 5th time this season, ruling him out of next week's FA Cup replay against Hereford United.

The ten men of United battled hard for an equaliser in the second period but ultimately it was not to be, and the majority of the 18,809 crowd left disappointed as Leeds exit from the competiton was confirmed.