Billy Bags A Double Ton

Sharp reminder of huge task facing Heckingbottom.

- Chris Dunlavy

BILLY Sharp bagged his200th league goal asPaul Heckingbottom’s Leeds reign got off to a bleak start at Bramall Lane.

Sharp, who spent the 2014-15 season at Elland Road, lashed home a spectacular volley after just 110 seconds to bring up his double century.

Pierre-Michel Lasogga levelled things up two minutes into the second half, but Eunan O’Kane’s careless hack at John Fleck saw Sharp dispatch goal No.201 from the penalty spot.

Having vowed to improve discipline after a run of four red cards in five games blighted the final weeks of predecessor Thomas Christiansen, Heckingbottom must be furious at such a lapse from his skipper.

Of more concern, however, will be a lacklustre first-half performance that carried echoes of recent collapses against Millwall and Cardiff – and a defeat that extends the Whites’ winless streak to eight games.

“As games run out, you get further and further away,” admitted the 40-year-old, who also lost Kemar Roofe to concussion in the first half. “That’s fact, and there’s no getting away from it.