Leeds (H) | Post Match Thread

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


14 points clear, 2 defeats in 36 games. 8 players rested because we're playing a Champions League 1/4 final and an FA Cup semi final this week.

Seriously, some of you need to give yourselves a slap.

I dont know if its complete arrogance to think we should win every game, or just a hysterical paranoia that we are going to lose every league game left and bottle the league, but the whole discourse around this game has been absurd since before the match, people calling it a "must win" FFS.

We have bigger fish to fry. Pep picked as weak a side as he could, and Leeds managed to pull off a result, fair enough. The team will already be thinking about Dortmund.
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Correct. Focus is clearly on Wednesday.

Not got another league game for 11 days now and even then it's the least important game of our next 4 games.

We're at a minimum at 8 points clear and 5 of United's last 8 games are against the top half (Spurs, Leeds, Liverpool, Villa, Leicester).

Just chill out guys.
 
domalino said:
Someone actually, seriously, just wrote in the match thread that this side doesn't deserve to win the league because if that game.


14 points clear, 2 defeats in 36 games. 8 players rested because we're playing a Champions League 1/4 final and an FA Cup semi final this week.

Seriously, some of you need to give yourselves a slap.

I dont know if its complete arrogance to think we should win every game, or just a hysterical paranoia that we are going to lose every league game left and bottle the league, but the whole discourse around this game has been absurd since before the match, people calling it a "must win" FFS.

We have bigger fish to fry. Pep picked as weak a side as he could, and Leeds managed to pull off a result, fair enough. The team will already be thinking about Dortmund.
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Totally agree , embarrassing reading some of the posts on here , we’ve got some seriously entitled fans .
one of them games , fair play Leeds , that’s it , on to the next one .
 
If the Sterling contract and the reputed £300,000 - £400,000 a week he is demanding means we can not afford Haaland. Then we should do the right thing .

I am sick to death of watching Sterling do the same thing every time he plays.

Get the Ball ,run at the box, stop dead at the edge of the Box, Feint to go left....feint to go right ...fall over.

Another defeat on Pep i am afraid.

We should have brought on the big Guns Like KDB, Mahrez ,at half time and put this game to Bed.

The thing with our defeats under Pep. They are so infuriating. We never have our best side on the Pitch when it happens. Finishing that shit show with KDB/Mahrez still on the bench was criminal. When since half time we were screaming for his killer passes.

Could be down to 8 points.

Meaning it has backfired a bit. If he was saving the players ,he might be needing the more.

I never understand why never do shit the opposite way around. Win the game, score a couple then make Subs.

Just had the first Text "This isn't over yet you know ? " CHEERS PEP.
 
I think sterling has peaked now and no amount of coaching by pep will change that. Zinchenko played well and would play instead of cancelo at LB on Wednesday. The worrying thing is to be caught on the counter by Leeds so easily, what will di maria and mbappe do to us provided we beat dortmund
 
Shit happens. At least we know exactly who is in our best team and who isnt. Just hope it doesn't disrupt any momentum or confidence going into dortmund.
 
The team selection obviously didn't help, but too many players haven't turned up today.
If our attackers do a better job today that second goal doesn't happen.
John Stones trying to do what we the rest should be doing and unfortunately left us exposed at the back.
 
TonyM said:
I thought the following had a very good game but weren't lucky at the right times...
- Stones
- Fernandinho
- Zinchenko
- Torres
- Jesus
- Bernardo

The following weren't bad...just not very good
- Mendy
- Cancelo
- Ake

Ederson stands out as poor on both goals imo.

And Sterling stands out as being the worst player on the pitch. Had we replaced him with KDB while behind we'd have not lost. The sooner he's replaced the better imo.
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I thought Mendy was poor, never got to the byline and always loses the 2nd ball.
 
PistonBlue said:
The team was picked with Dortmund in mind clearly, not the team I’d have picked but there you go.
Having said that, the stats say we should have won the game even with that team, 71% possession, 29 shots, 7 on target. So yes, unexpected.
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our attackers (beisdes Kun) have never been clinical.....so totally expected to be wasteful and have trouble scoring.

Bags of space down our left hand side with Mendy and Ake playing - totally expected.

Midfield of Ferna and Zinchenko (benching KDB, Foden) - lack of real creativity - totally expected.

No leadership at the back - totally expected adter remvoing Dias from defence.

To get hit on the break - thats our MO - it always happens
 
Tricky_Trev said:
We made 7 changes. We pretty much always make between 5 and 7 changes. We play Dortmund midweek and the FA Cup Semi at the weekend. We have a large lead in the PL and will have felt we could have won with that team, which was a fair assumption. Shit happens. But don’t give me this shit that it was the wrong team. It was absolutely the correct team to field.
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Agree. Some of those players today let themselves, pep and us down.
 
If there was one game to lose in this run of a three league games, a cup final, a cup semifinal and a cup quarterfinal, this was it.

If there was someone to finish the chances, wouldn't have lost that. So much pressure on 10 men, without that goal that kills it.

Otherwise, the players pretty much played to routine. Goals conceded like that happens. The response though just missed the finishing.

A few rested, big response needed niw on Wednesday. And thereafter for the end of the season
 
vmsuhail said:
Potentially 8 points ahead with 6 games to go. Seen that done before. League is not done yet. Hopefully Tottenham can get a result
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My eldest lad just txt me the same thing. All the media saying the PL is over, but they’re secretly holding out for the rags to come back. We know it’s possible, so this is why we shouldn’t be spunking away chance after chance. It’s criminal.
 
Hopefully it is ultimately irrelevant, but once they’re down to 10 I don’t understand how the instructions don’t become for sterling and Torres to stretch and pull them to the byline every single time, and everyone in midfield is told to slip balls down the channel towards it. Why we continued to set up in the 18 yard umbrella and lob crosses into 5 foot players is just weird.
 
That was a great opportunity for Sterling to play himself back into contention for Wednesday. Unfortunately he had a stinker. Same applies really to Bernie and Torres. Both of them did themselves no favours. Gabby was kicked senseless in the first half and played poorly in the second half. Thought we would nick it after we equalised but these things happen. Zinchenko, Fern played ok. Stones looked great going forward and probably that cost him for their second when I thought he would catch Dallas more comfortably.

No disaster. We have lost a game, not a trophy.
 
Shakes head.
That's what happens when you play your 2nd choice defence.
2 chances 2 goals. Dreadful.
Only 8 points ahead if Utd win all their games in hand
 
Robinho's Subbuteo said:
Sterling is one of the highest paid players at the club. It is 100% right we should expect the very best from him 9 times out of 10. The reality is, he plays 1 good game in 10 and that is simply not good enough. The club is not getting what it is paying for by a long way.
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Too right, higher standards are applied because he is so good
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Sterling needs to look at himself

He had the opportunity to put his name forward to start Wednesday and now I wouldn’t have him on the bench

We looked so disjointed
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Thank fuck he didn’t,best thing to come out of today I’m praying I never see him again in our shirt
 
dctid said:
Can’t win all games but a reminder to Peo not too fuck around with team selection too much and why the fcuk Aguero can’t get any game time is beyond me
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Correct.Put a strong side out first,hopefully establish a lead,then rest the big guns.
 
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