REPERCUSSIONS are expected in the wake of Leeds United’s 1-1 Championship home draw with Brentford.

Post-match comments on live television by the Whites’ star defender Pontus Jansson about referee Jeremy Simpson could land him in hot water.

The Swede, whose 88th-minute header from Ezgjan Alioski’s free-kick rescued a point, was still fuming at the award of the penalty which saw the Bees take the lead just after an hour.

Neal Maupay converted from the spot for his 10th goal of the season but the visitors’ celebrations in front of the South Stand saw their players pelted with missiles.

The match also saw a scuffle in the visitors’ dug-out between Brentford winger Sergio Canos and Alioski during a highly-charged controversial encounter.

The Football Association are likely to investigate the incidents but one certain fallout from the game will be the suspension of Luke Ayling, who was dismissed in injury time for a foul.

That riled the Leeds fans because minutes earlier Moses Odubajo avoided a second yellow card for a foul on teenage debutant Jack Clarke.

Simpson may have had an off-day but so too did several Leeds players with their usual smooth passing going awry.

Unlike Jansson, Leeds head coach Marcelo Bielsa refused to criticise Simpson.

He said: “The most important thing for me is to know if my team played well or didn’t play well. I never say the referee is responsible for our performance, we are only in control of that.

“I think it is a fair result, we could have won the game and we could have lost the game but it wouldn’t be fair to say that we were close to winning the game as it was not the case.”

The Bees shaded the first-half, going closest to breaking the deadlock when Ollie Watkins’ shot looped off Liam Cooper onto the crossbar, with Bailey Peacock-Farrell spreading himself well to thwart Maupay.

The same four players were involved in the Brentford goal, Cooper’s error enabled Watkins to advance on goal towards Peacock-Farrell and went down under minimum contact, leaving Maupay to convert from the spot.

From then on, the London side came under increasing pressure with Cooper almost atoning for his part in the Brentford goal by glancing a header just wide before Luke Daniels brilliantly denied Kalvin Phillips from close range.

Eventually the pressure told with the outstanding Jansson’s head salvaging a point that gave the Whites temporary daylight at the top until victories for Sheffield United and West Bromwich Albion later in the day saw Leeds slip to third.

During the international break Bielsa will welcome the gap in fixtures to rest some of his regular senior players will get while trying to sharpen the fitness of his fringe players.

Injuries are part and parcel of the game, but Leeds have been almost stretched to breaking point in recent weeks with Stuart Dallas playing through the pain barrier against Brentford for 70 minutes before 17-year-old Clarke’s debut introduction.

Leeds are next in action at buoyant Blackburn on October 20 when Bielsa hopes to have injured quartet Kemar Roofe, Pablo Hernandez, Barry Douglas and Gaetano Beradi available.

Leeds United: Peacock-Farrell, Ayling, Jansson, Cooper, Dallas (Clarke 70), Phillips, Harrison, Saiz (Baker 76), Klich (Forshaw 63), Alioski, Roberts. Subs (not used): Blackman, Pearce, Shackleton, Edmondson. Sent off: Ayling. Cautions: Roberts, Peacock-Farrell, Jansson

Brentford: Daniels, Odubajo (Barbet 76), Mepham, Canos (Benrahma 77), Yennaris, Maupay, Watkins (Judge 84), Mokotojo. Sawyers, Dalsgaard, Konsa. Subs (not used): Bentley, MacLeod, McEachran, Jeanvier. Cautions: Mepham, Odubadjo

Referee: Jeremy Simpson (Lancashire). Att: 31,880.