Leeds United (A) Post Match Thread

Neville Kneville said:
There were loads of times when we had 3, 4 players running at their defence & nobody really had a purpose to it.

Now picture Haaland, running in front of KDB, in the same situation.

Buy him fir next sesson. Even if we have to treble our record.
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Haaland is an absolute beast - would love to see him at City!
 
ScottSinclair said:
Pep "Good game"

Go back to Spain
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It was a good game. I enjoyed it a lot.
Many teams will have problem with Leeds. Van Dijk said the same and I didn’t really believe him. But they were really impressive.
 
Dont care what anyone says, dippers get one of those decisions in the last ten mins, whatever happened so far dont matter, at that point its 1-1, literally ANY of our rivals get a pen in that game. Its ok saying leeds were better, that should have no bearing on a var decision. As for our performance, we need a proper striker and a left back, Mendy starts well, gets booked, then his head goes,oh and Mahrez decision making is me me me all the fcking time. Leeds look a good outfit and can play, credit to em. Oh, and this thread has accelerated faster than you can read it, must have been a lot of knife twisters waiting for their chance, well have your say and fck off till after the break.
 
A striker is a must now, if Aguero comes back he needs to gain match sharpness and how long he's been out that may not be till after Christmas. Gabby is brilliant and runs for the sake of running but he, among others, miss way too many chances. We need to get a proven goal scorer in to get bedded in and settled who can then move into Kuns place when he leaves next summer. That is vital at this point now. A new left back wouldn't go a miss either.
 
DMA's said:
So why do we keep making the same mistakes? Why do teams keep cutting us open? He is a fantastic manager but These things have a shelf life
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If the players up top stopped giving the ball away like they’ve never played football before and actually showed some determination to win it back, that might be a start.
 
manimanc said:
What the fuck are you on about?

WE ARE ONLY 3 GAMES IN TO THE SEASON YOU FUCKIN COCONUT.

Fuck me stop talking out your arse.
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Same issues coming up for a long time to be fair pal. It's like watching replays.
 
WallyA said:
Right, even Kevin made some poor choices up front every now and then.

Other than sterling at the end who ran at the keeper, the stats show alot of shots, but we didn't create that many CLEAR chances that we normally do, the ones that just get tapped in.

The ones we did, we had shots off that got blocked, unlucky but happens.
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The blocked ones I don't mind. The times we got up there & did fuck all; that's not quality football as Sky & Pep would have us believe.

It's mid table.
 
Players are not playing for Pep anymore they ain’t busting a gut to get back when we lose the back like Leeds were. This what happens when the manager won’t commit he need to commit or it a pelegrini season.

But our first three games were pretty hard start plus 12th man Var does us most games.
 
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.
 
Worzel Gummidge#9 said:
As soon as Bernardo came on he gave us energy and a well needed spark going forward, our team as a whole though seems unbalanced and forced, we've gone backwards without a doubt
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Totally agree, great to see Bernardo back and looking fit. I just hope he starts getting much more game time, Ake looked good and confident when he came on as well, I said it earlier but the City team that finished was better than the one that started the game.
 
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