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Leeds United's young talent highlighted in incredible statistic from Bournemouth win

An amazing statistic from Leeds United's comeback win over Bournemouth has highlighted both the dependency and belief in their younger players.

Youngsters Wilfried Gnonto, Crysencio Summerville and Sam Greenwood all had major roles to play in the win after being 3-1 down in the 48th minute and have proved themselves in the minutes they have throughout the season.

Greenwood scored the Whites' second goal with a great curling effort on the hour mark, eight minutes before captain Liam Cooper thumped home a header to level the score.

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After winning a penalty after 50 seconds, Summerville once again impacted the game in a big way as Gnonto's dazzling solo run from deep in his own half ended with a perfectly-weighted pass into the path of the Dutchman who dispatched the ball past Mark Travers for all three points.

Taking to social media, Twitter user @tommy_lufc showed that the average age of the players on the pitch when Summerville scored his late winner was just 22.9 years.

The oldest player on the pitch for Leeds was Cooper at 31 while the youngest was Gnonto at 19, with the Whites having nine players aged 25 or younger on the pitch at the time of the winner.

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