Leeds United (A) Post Match Thread

[argyle]

I've forgotten what it feels like to have a player one on one and actually have confidence that they'll bury it

Sterling actually (and regularly does this) ran past the ball as he was dribbling it.

He has scored a lot because of the passes KDB has laid on a plate for him but he misses far too many.

It's like he needs 5 chances to score just 1.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Pains me to say it but the scousers are currently a better team than us, whether that's to do with time off before the season or players I'm not sure.

We are not right.

 

[Fordyboy46]

you hope

It really wouldn't bother me Kaz, seems like there's a total disinterest from management and players at the minute. I know Pep has had a horrid few months and is seeing football from a different perspective now, maybe it is now time to have a break from the game.

 

[KennyG]

If we didn’t realise, we do now. Arteta was doing a lot of the legwork. There was once a time when I’d have loved Mourinho here, which proves all managers have a shelf life. Bayern have coped incredibly well after Pep. His time here is done.

 

[Sky Blue]

The reason we dropped 2pts tonight is that Pep refuses to see that we need both a leader on the pitch and a 3rd striker. If this continues like this we will stand no chance of qualifying for next season's Champions League or Europa League. To me it looks like Pep hasn't a clue what to do.I

Yet again a great first half but a crap second half. That is now the 3rd game in a row that that has happened this season. Pep needs to get it sorted before the next game. That is what he is paid to do, if he can't get it done, then maybe it maybe time for Pep to go.

If this carries on we will be closer to relegation then being Champions. For us to be Champions we need to win the remaining 35 games. That will never happen. We seem to have lost the idea how to come a game once we have the lead.

Kinell...

 

[vasan]

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.

Couldn't agree more.Pep is best man out there to get us more titles with this set of players.
Teams develop in cycles.Core group of players(8-14) have a lifecycle of 6-8 years of prime performance and around them you build a team with squad players with half lifecycle of 3-4 years.Pep reached his peak with his team in dec2017-2018, we were the best team in europe.We need a small squad rebuild.
Next 2 transfer windows are going to very important.

--Whole right side in the wing with mahrez and walker are not first choice quality(30 years and not going get better and mahrez is NHG)
No matter how much coaching and playing time and attacking space is give to raheem, he clearly is not a striker.Needs to play in the right wing where he can use his dribbling more and be more direct----

 

[David Silva #21]

a better performance than last week
we should work on our mistakes
a good debut for Dias
We have issues in creating goal chances
Mahrez, Foden and Torres should work harder

 

[chaddblue]

If this carries on we will be closer to relegation then being Champions. For us to be Champions we need to win the remaining 35 games. That will never happen. We seem to have lost the idea how to come a game once we have the lead.

So you think it's gonna take 109 points to win the league?

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

If we didn’t realise, we do now. Arteta was doing a lot of the legwork. There was once a time when I’d have loved Mourinho here, which proves all managers have a shelf life. Bayern have coped incredibly well after Pep. His time here is done.

3 games in pal

 

[City Raider]

4 points out of 9 about where I thought we’d be when saw opening fixtures and add in no pre-season. That’s without throwing in no Laporte or Jesus.