A second later, he came out the other side with the ball still at his feet and the away end reacted in kind.
Still, he wasn't out of the woods yet because now, March and Dahoud were on him, only this time, Leo had some options.
He looked up and towards the right where Ezra had shown his first real touch of the game coming if the pass was right, and Leo sent it long, bending it to the outside of the Brighton fullback's run and weighted for Ezra to chase rather than collect.
Ezra got there and controlled it before he immediately fed it to Seriki on the overlap and kept running.
Seriki, under the press of Mitoma, ignored the rush and lifted the ball back over the top for Ezra to chase again, the two of them working the channel with the telepathy of players that had played together for years despite it being their first game together.
