Former Leeds United star Noel Whelan says there can be no excuse for the Whites not having beaten Sunderland, insisting they should be taking teams like the Black Cats apart.

Leeds were expected to return to winning ways against Chris Coleman's side, who are second bottom of the Championship table and on course to suffer a second successive relegation.




But Leeds fell behind three minutes into the second half when Paddy McNair converted a half-volleyed effort and needed a piece of genius from Pablo Hernandez to draw level.

The Spaniard, who is out of contract at Leeds in the summer, hit a superb curling shot to fire Leeds to parity with the visitors.
 


1-1 was how it ended and an entertaining contest was capped off by Leeds defender Gaetano Berardi being shown a straight red card.

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Whelan admits that some of Leeds' play was good, but lacking in end product.

And the former White makes no bones about his view that Leeds should be comfortably beating teams such as Sunderland at Elland Road.

"The be all and end all is we should be winning these games at home", Whelan said on BBC Radio Leeds.

"Bottom of the league. They will say if they play like that they can beat teams – they haven't. The pressure was on.

"You talk about tests. Have they come out on top today? No.

"Some of their outfield play was brilliant, but you've got to have an end product.

"Teams like this we should be taking apart. They are bottom of the league, have struggled all season", he added.

Leeds continue to sit in 14th spot in the Championship standings with the point, while Sunderland remain in deep trouble and seven points from safety with five games left.