Leeds United (A) Post Match Thread

[Akpowell]

The End of an Era

 

[Neville Kneville]

Making excuses, but fitness levels are not good enough, it's very obvious. That's why we depend on scoring early, and yet again there was a sense of dejavu when we missed so many chances in the beginning.

Mahrez and Mendy are not good enough, and especially Mahrez annoys the shit out of me with his selfish, dont give a fuck attitude.

On a positive note, Dias looked great, it's an international break and it's still early in the season, but there are many problems that need to be solved, no doubt.

The one good thing about the past 6 months is Dias.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

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.

Completely disagree
We should be 9 from 9 with them opening games.
Title looks gone already

 

[Paul1970]

Never a corner for there goal. Changing a rule in an ongoing season is a farce.. so its a pen one week and not the other.. also pen on sterling after. Ignored red at the end.. There not even hiding it.

If you look at it that way mendy should have walked first half . He got booked and then still made two fouls .

 

[porkchopsaplenty]

Leeds caught them at the best time. They would have strolled it tonight, as we would two seasons ago.

But lets imagine those Liverpool players get injured for once. What have we done do far, to indicate we would be the team to cash in ?

We are very close to chucking it, already.

We need to get fit & start playing, after the break.

Balls to Liverpool.
But can't disagree about City we need to up our game m8.
Getting Aguero & Jesus back.
Playing Ake over Mendy & letting Dias & Laporte have a run of games to build up a partnership will surely make us stronger though?

 

[willipp]

No he’s not
Leeds were good value today
We are missing recognised strikers and had it not been for an uncharacteristic error by Ederson we would have won that (and VAR of course!)

If and buts, but I agree, shit we miss a striker.

 

[Cheeky Txiki]

The one year FFP is down and we don't sign a long needed striker. After which we play Sterling false 9 which has never worked well (except against shit clubs like Burnley). I really would've preferred a 17 year old Delap over a winger playing out of position but it's our preseason so it's ok.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Think the Leicester result really did a number on many posters on here.

Last season’s performances against Arsenal in the FAC semi and Lyon in the CL Quarter are the two performances that did the number on me.

The players lost me a bit after those displays. I didn’t watch any football after the Lyon game until we played again against Wolves and didn’t read a single bit of City news or football news at all.

I think I was less pissed off when we shipped 8 at Boro and hadn’t felt as deflated with this club since Frank Clarke managed us.

I really really thought we would give the FA Cup and Champions League a proper go after defeating the Cartel and UEFA at the CAS. But I think Frank Clarke’s team wouldn’t have done any worse than we did in those two games.

Since then they’ve changed my mindset and I feel differently towards them. I expected more from them and more of them and I think they let us down in those Summer games.

Leicester and today are just further cementing how I feel about them after those games.

Hardly any of the players give me a fire in my belly when I watch them at the moment. Although when Bernardo came on I thought we might win it because he did come on with some spark, and maybe Dias could become the new Zabaleta?! Who knows? But we need to put in some big displays as a team in the coming weeks, if we draw or even lose but we play in a way that gives me a fire in my belly, then fair enough. But defeats like Arsenal Lyon Leicester and such a pitiful middle hour display in today’s draw really aren’t doing it.

 

[mat]

I’m confused.

I watched a good game of footballing chess today. Two coaches trying to out wit each other. We dropped points because of a brain fart. Mind you Mike Dean also continued the trend that PiGMOL referee our matches differently.

 

[samarasra]

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.

Please keep clapping. A superb calm and reasoned post (maybe out of place on this thread !!). Cannot add much to your words but there is also a growing number of posters with huge chips on their shoulders regarding our Barca connections. Thank you for your post, I am now diving back into the bunker.