Leeds (H) | Post Match Thread

[Gray]

Nonsense. I’d be ducking fuming if we put a full strength side out today. The priority is to win everything. Pep’s the manager and he makes selections based on the seasonal goal of winning everything.

The Scousers still putting out full strength team, have they not got a mid-week fixture?

 

[daflanger]

Its one of those game where we dominate and cannot score. But worse ia that we were playing against 10 men and we lost. However we were not bad. But did not finish.

Honestly we can afford to throw this game away cause the next 4 games in a row are all must win and no one will rest

What happened to Sterling? He had a very bad game today!

We need to forget about this game now and concentrate on Dortmund.

 

[Manc in London]

Irrelevant ?

We have won fuck all yet ?

We should be putting the League to Bed early.

The Rags win their games in Hand, then our lead is down to 8 points with 6 games still left to play.

I remember a team not far from here having a lead like that, and thinking the Job was done.

We know how that all tuned out.

Haha. Calm down, Captain Mainwaring

 

[otherwise]

Good to see you back. Hope all has been well out there.

it's been an adventure. hope you're having a nice time having to stay at home :)

 

[Len Rum]

Here's the rub.
Poor team selection and we go down1-0.
Then we have the advantage of them going down to ten but still can't fashion a victory which makes that poor selection seem even worse.
Which it was.

 

[Gray]

I have tried to keep an open mind and hoped Mendy would return to some form but jesus christ is he bad. If it was only his pace that had gone but his technique was super you could forgive him but he looks like he won a raffle to get here

He is very funny though.

 

[carlosthejackal]

That’s two fuck ups in the last few weeks, hopefully the last , two really difficult games in the next week, anything less than 100% commitment and concentration and we will lose both .

 

[Gaz in Zurich]

Be interesting to see who plays left back against Dotmund.
Cancelo has been poor of late.

Back four should be Kyle, Stones, Dias, Zinny.. most reliable back four atm, Cancelo try to play too many Hollywood balls that don't come off

 

[Decepticon]

Someone actually, seriously, just wrote in the match thread that this side doesn't deserve to win the league because if that game.

Whoever wrote this can go suck Bruno Fernandes cock.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Totally agree - the telling point was when pep put zinchenko at LB, clearly didn’t trust mendy - mendy is finished at city

Shame, but true.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

yep, full of happy clappy JCL's.
truth hurts .

Always remember your posts from years back. You always said don’t make too many changes at the back! The Ake/Mendy combo was madness.

What if we win Wed? Are we going to keep playing these weakened line ups around CL games ?

 

[LongsightM13]

he is never a wide player, up front he looks quality on the flanks poor, very poor, as said a big downgrade on Leroy

Young lad in his first season in a new team and new country, during a pandemic and having had a bad dose of the virus himself. In and out of the team but already scored plenty - 9 in 30 appearances, many of those as sub.
Prolific for Spain, 6 in 10 games after stepping up from under 21s, including a hat trick against Germany. He’ll be just fine

 

[Keeper!]

We didn't have many great chances at all today though was all speculative shots from distance or crosses

Just like Sept to Nov

When we are at our best we get behind teams, the last few weeks that has stopped, worrying as the season is coming to the serious time.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

You simply do not have to make all them changes in one game simple. Is it worrying then that our backup players can't beat a 10 man Leeds?

You are talking like it was unusual for us. We make 5,6,7 changes every week. But nobody says a word when we win 27 out of 28 and then they pipe up when one game has a freak score. The xG was 2.41 - 0.1. Nothing to worry about, we move on to Dortmund.

 

[Millo]

Typical City are back.

I don’t know how Pep can be smiling about that loss.

Sterling and Mendy should be playing with the reserves

They were. That was our reserve team!

 

[Bluefen]

Its one of those game where we dominate and cannot score. But worse ia that we were playing against 10 men and we lost. However we were not bad. But did not finish.

Honestly we can afford to throw this game away cause the next 4 games in a row are all must win and no one will rest

What happened to Sterling? He had a very bad game today!

We need to forget about this game now and concentrate on Dortmund.

Sterling is in so bad form, has been for months... this new style of play we have of slow build up doesn’t help his game at all...

 

[super_city_si]

Lescott and Ferdinand have just made the point that Torres looks a lot like Sergio when he plays as a striker. Maybe that’s where he should be rather than being stuck out on the wing where he’s not really having any impact.

Been saying for a while. He looks natural in the middle. has strikers instinct. Completely anonymous when wide.

 

[Scottish Cityzen]

we have absolutely nothing up top, that will come back to hit us hard at the business end of the season

The only positive is that none of today’s front three will be starting in the biggest games unless they have a major turnaround in form.

Sterling is needing to watch back his performance today then have a long stint sat in front of a mirror.

I thought he’d rediscovered his form with England but he’s bang out of form at the moment.

 

[chaddblue]

Is there a chance that a lot of the players were so poor today because simply by being picked they were given the message that they won’t be playing in the next two huge games. So they were sulking?

 

[Keeper!]

Young lad in his first season in a new team and new country, during a pandemic and having had a bad dose of the virus himself. In and out of the team but already scored plenty - 9 in 30 appearances, many of those as sub.
Prolific for Spain, 6 in 10 games after stepping up from under 21s, including a hat trick against Germany. He’ll be just fine

Come on, he never takes on his man, as a striker, I think he could be very special