Leeds United (A) Post Match Thread

[Deleted member 77198]

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 Ederson hadn’t made that error, Leeds may have scored off their next attack

 

[Ashoka]

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I know commentators will say Ruben Dias didn't start out with a clean sheet.. 70 mil waste.. Pep Out.. Liverpool's year blah blah blah troll bullshit..

But our defensive performance wasn't that bad other than Mendy gifting goal opportunities.. Ake and the Fernandinho double pivot closed that down.

If I could find a fault it would be Foden giving ball away too easily and Delap not starting since our best opportunities came from headers and he's good at them.

And If we ever needed a preview of what life would be like without Aguero we're getting a good vision of it. This is what the future looks like without Aguero.

And we've been here before.. we just say oh Aguero will be back soon. We won't have that luxury anymore when he retires.

 

[BM96]

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

Dont think he did.

 

[Maly]

I agree with you but it’s not our pre-season is it

Considering our pre season is normally about 3 weeks long & we’re 3 weeks into our season, without any preseason, I’d say fitness wise it probably is. But just my opinion & like arseholes, we all have one ;)

 

[Akpowell]

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?

That won't happen

 

[Kenward Garg]

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.

Nice, dude. On that note I'll depart BM.

 

[LucahArchie10]

We've lost our aura and our entire team shape.

We have seemingly also lost our ability to have someone come short for a fucking throw.

For the days when Dave would always show for it.

Even when Mendy tries, he comes up way short.

Great saves from Eddie, even with the error.

Totally agree, once the pressure is on we are fucked, Ridri just hasn't got the quality to go fetch & carry even start the fast counter.

He looks fucked at time even tonight he was like watching your dad run in a junior school parents race

Don't get me started on Mendy the guy is a joke

We have big problems & the manager has his head on the attacking part of the game forgetting about the hard dirty deffending part of the game

Same old City

Good start get in front miss 2-3 great chances then stop the press, panic & pick the ball out ofvthe net

We then end up chasing the game hence we never give up but for me the giving up has already happened in the middle part of the game

If we dont sort the LB out we aint getting top 4 nevermind thinking winning it

 

[kanovic]

We're probably in trouble already mate .... title winning teams don't lose, or draw, too many games nowadays, and we are already losing ground on them!

Long season, Throw in covid also. I won’t give up that easy. City never do it easy so around December we should know if it’s possible or not.

 

[KennyG]

How you get away with your shite I'll never know.

Shite? Bet you’re one of those who still thinks Rodri is a good signing and It is ok to have one and a half strikers (Jesus can’t stay onside, in order to play up front)? We’ve just witnessed the Lyon debacle, being dicked off Arteta in the F.A cup. Pep either doesn’t make substitutions or makes a defensive one when we are behind. No plan B. But, you carry on telling yourself it is fine.

 

[Paul1970]

And that will take some serious clawing back even at this stage. See if they manage if they get few key injuries.

James Rodriguez is quality mate . They have made some really impressive signings .