Leeds United (A) Post Match Thread

[Sky Blue]

Says it all really...if nothing else we need a LB before window closes....

Phillips - Leeds targeted City defence​

Leeds midfielder Kalvin Phillips said:

You've been lying low waiting for us to have a sticky patch haven't you ? ..another bulb going on ignore.

 

[Shirley]

The first 45 against Wolves, the first 30 against Leicester, the first 10 against Leeds all excellent then we drop off alarmingly.

 

[blue aura]

We should not be drawing against a newly promoted team, like we shouldn't have lost to Norwich last season... We're not good enough!

 

[Cotswold Knight]

Shit
Mendy shit and a liability
Mahrez shit and lazy
Foden shit and piss poor passing

 

[Keeper!]

Walker just not good enough qualitatively.30 and no going to improve.

LOL if we had 11 players with his attitude, and fitness we would be in a lot better place at the moment.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

The title is a marathon not a sprint , we have new players bedding in , a lot of players coming back from injury and illness , a few on here getting a little exciteable , the title race will take shape in December and we wont be far away when the team settles down.
Dias at centre back and Ake at left back , play with one defensive midfield player and get a striker who can score goals on the pitch , and this will turn around , disgusted in the lack of faith in Guardila considering what he has down for our club , hang your heads in shame

 

[Gabriel]

There have been glimpses of us getting back to form in the last two matches. Played on the front foot with pace and precision, yet the lack of a focal point means the goals our play merits haven’t arrived. It’s proving difficult to sustain it over an entire half, let alone game,true, but the signs are promising. As we get more players back we should be able to freshen things again.

 

[kaz7]

Do we really need to attack someone for saying RCB instead of right sided centre back?

he should say the name like he did in the rest of his post that you dont seem to have read

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Bielsa said yesterday that Pep Guardiola ruined football, because he's so good and he had so much success that teams resorted to horrendous football in order to counter people adopting Pep's tacitcs.

I'm not sure if that's 100% true or just Bielsa going over the top in complimenting his friend, but I'm really starting to think Pep has ruined the Manchester City fan base.

I know that the Match thread and twitter are not necessarily 100% accurate portrayals of the fanbase but I seriously don't think many people on here actually enjoy football anymore. The levels of anger and angst that starts when the team sheet is announced and doesn't disappear unless we are 4-0 up is just unbearable.

Both our strikers are injured! Someone's going to have to play out of position. I've not been Mahrez's biggest fan over the 3 years he's been here but fucking hell guys he's not shit, he doesn't need to "Go back to North Africa" FFS because he didn't hold the ball up. He put a massive shift in, was the first one legging it back to defend just before he came off. The players pressed like lunatics in the first 30 minutes and maybe we're not fit enough to do that for the whole game yet because we had no preseason, but it showed the players are committed to Pep's football 100%.

We had it exceptionally easy for a couple of seasons, 198 points has never been done before, and won't be done again, but even in that centurions season we dropped points in 1/6 games. We had long spells where we weren't winning games. I don't remember there being so much animosity towards the players and Pep, I don't remember this sense of entitlement to an easy win and anything else is a travesty requiring players lined up against the wall or Pep getting replaced.

Leeds were really good. We saw that when the (apparently on a compeltely different plane to us) Liverpool side conceded 3 and could have conceded many more. BIelsa is an exceptional coach, Leeds will finish in the top 10 and take a few more scalps. They will take away all structure from the game and make it end to end madness against a lot of teams.

Unfortunately, in an absolute downpour, Ederson, who was excellent mostly, made 3 or 4 great saves and was the 2nd best keeper in the league at claiming crosses and corners last season made a mistake. They scored, we dropped a couple of points, it happens. Sterling should have ended the game, that's annoying but he is what he is, he helps us out a lot more than he hurts us.

Pep isn't upset post match, he's laughing and smiling. He wants the title more than anyone posting on here, he works harder for Manchester City than anyone, and he knows with 6 players out, against a really good side, no preseason, in an insane condensed season, sometimes you're going to drop a couple of points.

I'm not sure how to make this a more succinct point, but I just think quite a lot of our fans just need to fucking relax and stop living with this mindset where we have to win every single game we play while looking world class from 1-11 and having put the game to bed inside half an hour.

I'm sure the usual brigade will turn up and tell me to fuck off for being a happy clapper, but christ, in 2020, with a pandemic keeping us cooped up, if you're frothing at the mouth with anger from the line up being released on twitter to the full time whistle then I'm not sure what the point is.

I appreciate the positivity but the reason most people are upset or worried is that last season we were brittle. We either won handsomely or dropped points, very few grind out wins. When we conceded we panicked.

We’ve started this season the exact same way. Fell apart after conceding against Leicester, fell apart after 30 minutes today. It’s the same failings time and time again. Not maintaining the press, not taking our chances, not capitalising in dominance and letting the opposition have chances without having to work for them. We look mentally weak. The team’s self belief has gone.

When Liverpool need a goal they grind the opposition until they score. Despite taking control of the final 15 minutes we never looked like scoring. No one driving us on. Our one world class midfielder spent the entire second half waving his arms in the air in frustration.

This season isn’t a reset after last season’s disappointment, it’s a continuing decline. People are making excuses but the fundamentals of this team aren’t there. We used to press relentlessly, be ruthless and fight to the end. Now our late goals are usually the icing in the cake or the killer goal for a 2 goal win. I can’t remember our last late winner in the league.

 

[waspish]

Why are we not in for a new forward, Aguero is injury prone and Jesus needs help.

Think we thought we’d get by with Jesus till Aguero gets back we didn’t bank on Jesus getting injured. Also seems this season our priority was sane replacement and a centre back.