Leeds (H) | Post Match Thread

[Luke The Blue]

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.

When did the team last have Ake, Mendy, Torres in genuine question by the way? I generally do not know but I'm struggling to remember off the top of my head. Just not good enough Imo.

Hopefully nothing to worry about just hope it pays off and we smash Dortmund.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

let's flip that.
rack up the points and win the league asap. then rest as many as you like . put the best 11 out in every cup game .

You do that and you put the other trophies at risk. The league is won. We can afford to drop points. It would have been madness to play the big guns today.

 

[Ric]

Absolutely shite today, but not a great surprise given the amount of changes. Not many of the fringe players did themselves any favours, but need to put it behind us. Wednesday is obviously far, far more important.

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

i hope we go out otherwise we will . not interested in the CL. it's all about the title .

Unbelievable Jeff.very embarrassing

 

[Keeper!]

Final ball from everyone was awful but especially from Sterling and Cancelo.

and Mendy, he has to be moved on, it's over for him at this club, such a shame, he had the talent but injuries have left a shell of a player

 

[Roachy]

Pep rotated, understandable. He picked a team he thought would win. The team was still good enough to beat Leeds, at home and down to 10 men for 45 mins. It was an iffy performance, but the result was complete shite under the circumstances.

 

[Keeper!]

Absolutely shite today, but not a great surprise given the amount of changes. Not many of the fringe players did themselves any favours, but need to put it behind us. Wednesday is obviously far, far more important.

Fringe players let us down today, Sterling and Jesus in particular.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Absolutely shite today, but not a great surprise given the amount of changes. Not many of the fringe players did themselves any favours, but need to put it behind us. Wednesday is obviously far, far more important.

Probably what Pep will be saying to the players I would imagine .

 

[wolviedinho]

Genuinely believe we need to trim the fringe players. Buy a few more match winners and have the academy players involved. Won’t happen tho

 

[HarrytheBlue]

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

Agree. The Leroy boat has sailed and gone. The Leroy I saw playing for Bayern was a shadow of the player he was at times for us. For us - a shot that flies 20 feet over the bar, then followed by a screamer into the top of the net (occasionally). For Bayern - a player whose injury has taken of his pace and one wayward shot after another.

 

[manimanc]

 

[1.618034]

Nothing wrong with the team, it was the performance and changes weren't made early enough.

The performance of that team selection.

We started Aké, Mendy, Zinch, Torres and Sterling, all of whom are either out of form and/or lack game-time.

Of course it was a poor performance.

I'm not happy about it but can see the bigger picture so I refuse to lose my shit over it.

But apparently that makes me a "Happy Clapping JCL" so I'll leave the moaning and wailing to all the bigger blues than me. (That's not aimed at you btw.)

 

[SidJames]

Nothing wrong with the team, it was the performance and changes weren't made early enough.

100% this.

Actually felt like one of our many never turn up Derbies under Pep.

He wasn't that arsed today,

And he can not have been arsed, to have left KDB/Mahrez on the bench when it was 1-1 and the game was passing us by.

 

[Doctor Jimmy and Mr Jim]

Christ. Where do you start with that? I don't often get angry or over-react to wins or defeats, but I'm angry today. Not because we lost, that can happen anytime. It's how we lost. We seemed to play as if it was a testimonial game at times. Stones and Fernandinho aside, very few come out from that with credit. Several players need to take a long hard look at themselves. Hopefully that is a reminder to everyone that the league isn't done and it's a kick up the arse that we could have done without. Let's hold our hands up, learn from that shocker, consign it to the dustbin and then move on.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

When did the team last have Ake, Mendy, Torres in genuine question by the way? I generally do not know but I'm struggling to remember off the top of my head. Just not good enough Imo.

Hopefully nothing to worry about just hope it pays off and we smash Dortmund.

Well Ake has been injured most of the season so what do you expect?

 

[MCFC1993]

Also worth pointing out that Bayern (who have injuries already) have made 6 changes today and are drawing 0-0 with a mid-table side at half time.

It happens but it was the right thing to do.

 

[BuryBlue1977]

 

[Akpowell]

All these people saying it's irrelevant, it's not an important game, they wont be saying that if we get pipped to the league

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

If there was one game we didn’t mind losing it was this one. Decent performance 2nd half but it was just one of those days. Obviously games like this raise questions about our lack of a killer instinct and the urgent need to purchase that killer but equally you can argue there aren’t many games where the lack of that costs us.

Get a result in Germany and beat Chelsea and this game will be forgotten.

 

[Paul1970]

Absolute mardarses on this Forum
Bet not a one of them every goes to matches
Sit at home and moan

Didn’t think anyone goes to matches or have I missed something