Leeds (H) | Post Match Thread

[Xhavenjoe]

At this rate I’d be amazed if he actually signs in the right place

Its easy to do an X

 

[kun]

He wasn’t great last season mate either and I have always gave him the benefit of the doubt but now I can’t . Not bothered that we got beat as Leeds are one of the top teams in the league but I’m more alarmed that we lacked bite

I can't agree on this. I hear this a lot but I just don't think it's true. He was brilliant last season. He did have a spell of like 10 games where he had a poor, dry spell. But he still managed 31 goals and 10 assists.

 

[OntarioBlue]

At this rate I’d be amazed if he actually signs in the right place

If they put a picture of a goalkeeper on the signature line at least he’ll have something to aim at.

 

[B\connellblue]

Our 4 losses in the league: (city stat first)

Leicester

Shots 16/7
On Target 5/7

Spurs

Shots 22/5
On Target 5/2

Scum

Shots 23/8
On Target 6/6


Leeds

Shots 29/2
On Target 7/2

Total shots 90/22
On Target 23/17
Goals. 3/11

Damning...1 goal every 30 shots in those 4 losses v 1 in 2 against

Our 4 losses in the league: (city stat first)

Leicester

Shots 16/7
On Target 5/7

Spurs

Shots 22/5
On Target 5/2

Scum

Shots 23/8
On Target 6/6


Leeds

Shots 29/2
On Target 7/2

Total shots 90/22
On Target 23/17
Goals. 3/11

Damning...1 goal every 30 shots in those 4 losses v 1 in 2 against!

Some of those so called shots are anything but though. Back passes more like.

 

[hilts]

A shocking statistic...

Regardless of how talented our squad is there is a tipping point where the selection risks the result. Not enough of the big hitters to make a difference.

The performance of that front three today was as poor as I can recall for a long time.

Sterling can have zero complaints about being back on the bench Wednesday - lack of quality, poor decision making and selfish. Not attractive traits for one of our biggest players.

He’s the Rory McIlroy of golf at the moment.

In fairness to Rory he is working on his faults and if he missed chances by as wide a margin as Raz he would be playing against me at a weekend:-)

 

[Keeper!]

Yep will be interesting how we play against Dortmund away as our performance was not good enough imo on the rubbish grass at Etihad.
Also today there were bunch of player slipping, falling on their own.

Can we not move our home games to the youth stadium? Real did that.

I dont look forward playing a CL semis on this pitch later on if we have one more..

the pitch is poor but not the time to blame it today, we simply are not good enough up top, without the first choice 11

 

[phargrave]

What the fuck has happened to sterling yes we know he sometimes misses chances or fucks up situations but he’s absolutely dropped off in terms of performance completely,as for the team it’s self it sort of looks like we are starting to stumble towards the finishing line hope we make it ..

Decision making for the final ball is shocking to say the least

 

[Fordyboy46]

Sterling should be negotiating a pay decrease, going backwards at an alarming rate. Worth more than 300k a week Haha, what a piss take

 

[Bill]

Careful Bill we have a sensitive one here, remember mate you only say positive stuff about city on here nothing negative. Its the reason I stopped coming on here

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

 

[Jag]

Every press conference Pep talks about worrying about one game at a time. The team he put out today suggested that he has all eyes on Dortmund. The priority should always be the league.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

He wasn’t great last season mate either and I have always gave him the benefit of the doubt but now I can’t . Not bothered that we got beat as Leeds are one of the top teams in the league but I’m more alarmed that we lacked bite

Scored 31 goals last season.

 

[paulchapo]

Pep, "We played a real good game".........the mind boggles, we didn't Pep, we didn't.

 

[percypawpaw]

Shocker of a game, certain players need to have a good look at themselves.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

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

 

[chaddblue]

Has Pep said how brilliant leeds and Bielsa are yet?

 

[cookster]

Yeah, just like losing the derby did.

Wolves at home straight after the derby. Not Dortmund away then Chelsea at Wembley.
At least we don't have to play on our shit pitch.

 

[super_city_si]

Really ? The guy was a disaster..

Disaster how? He was alright for his first game in ages.

 

[1.618034]

Rags win their two games in hand our bottle will go

FFS. It seems yours already has.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Pep I don’t think We lost because of the defence.

we lost against 10 men as our 4 attacking players never stepped up

torres did nowt apart from the goal
bernardo has became the invisible man again
jesus our number 2 striker, when he plays doesn’t like to even play striker. Will do anything but get in the box.
Sterling his decline is alarming. Lost all confidence in beating his man he just kicks it at them and runs into them and his shooting is like under 8s shooting.

I know pep tinkered but upfront the guys given a chance didn’t take it.
well done Leeds with 10 men.

 

[Luke The Blue]

Difficult to argue with stupid but I’ll try. You are aware we have played twice a week all season? I’m going to answer ‘yes’ for you. You are aware we have a CL Quarter Final on Wednesday and an FA Cup Semi Final at the weekend? Again, yes. We also have a large lead in the league and it does not matter whether we win the league by 18 points or by 8. With all that in mind it was 100% right to rest as many as we could today. No different to the several other times this season we’ve had that same approach. And in fact we normally make 5 or 6 changes anyway. Today was 7.

The only way to rest 3 of Foden, KDB, Gundogan and Bernardo was to play Zinchenko in midfield. That meant Mendy left back as one of Cancelo and Walker was always going to be rested. Dias rested was a no brainer, and Laporte is injured, so Ake and Stones the obvious picks. Fernandinho no brainer. Zinchenko as I’ve already said. Bernardo was the freshest of the main midfielders, so he played. Aguero injured so obviously Jesus started. Sterling and Torres were the two benched wingers v Dortmund so obviously they come in.

The team was bang on. The result doesn’t change that. Losses can happen in football. We deserved to win but Leeds were far more clinical on the day, 2 shots 2 goals, fair play to them. But Pep called the team perfectly considering what is coming up this week.

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?