Leeds United (A) | Post Match Thread

wolfie1988 said:
Very surprised to see so much negativity on here after getting home last night.

For 70 minutes, we were brilliant and could have been 7 or 8 up. We've created 6 clear opportunities in the 1st half and didn't let Leeds get a sniff.
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That’s not how it works.

We had about six opportunities to go 0-1 up, then another two to go 0-3 up and another to go 1-4 up.

Just because we had eight or more good chances that doesn’t mean we should or could have scored eight or more goals. Once one of those goes in, everything that happened after it wouldn’t have happened as it did.

We did still create them though, so you’re right in saying that we created a lot.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
I won’t go anywhere near it. I can only presume none of them have either the slightest understanding of how sport in general, and football in particular work, or have ever been anywhere near the ground when there’s a match on.
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After wasting time with a couple of " experts " last night, I now realise that the thread is the last place to be on match days.

How these individuals can claim to be supporters or even have the faintest modicom of understanding about they way Pep wants the team to play clearly is beyond them. Of course they could just be miserable bastards who enjoy moaning.

Anyway despite them picking on Grealish ( oh what a fucking surprise ), he showed exactly why Pep was prepared to spend the fee to get him, and why their opinions about him are just pathetic shit.
 
I actually thought you played really well considering what you where up against ........... doubt many times will go there and do that to them 3-1 flattered them tbh
 
East Level 2 said:
SWP and Spanish Dave were kicked from pillar to post in many games and received almost no protection from the officials. Jack gets more kickings and even less protection.
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I remember one of the derbies where the rags actually worked in SWP in rotation - each time one of them got booked another one marked him - my vague memory seems to think it was about 4 of the fuckers.

(It was probably one...)
 
Charlesfarsbar said:
Average performance overall but a decent result

we looked far too casual in the second half for my liking especially after conceding the first. The game management is sometimes lacking and playing the situation in frontof you just isn’t there

we take too many risks at the back when not needed , surely a more conservative approach to see put the game would work

this bit us on the arse against Real Madrid last season and I could see the same unfolding last night.

Play the percentage ball down the channel rather than looking for a risky square ball into midfield

basics of football as a great man once said
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I think that applies to every team throughout history when the games being one so easily ............ I bet you go back through history and the majority of great sides will step of the gas once the games won ..........
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
When you watch the game back, watch Mahrez in the first half; he laid plenty on a plate for Grealish and Haaland and they both let him down with unacceptable finishing.

Mahrez did fade in the second half but he was very good first half.
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I made a post about this last night. I found it odd that neither Mahrez or Grealish made concerted attacks from the wings. As soon as either received the ball, more often than not they passed back or sideways.

Jack revealed at the end of last season that he's has to curb his natural instinct to take on defenders & prioritise keeping possession instead. Far be it from me to advise Guardiola, but I think we need to introduce a bit of unpredictable maverick jeopardy from the wings.

I've never viewed Jack as a traditional winger. He's more of a left midfielder. We need dedicated wing wizardry on both sides, as this season it seems Mahrez's powers are waning & he'll be 32 next birthday too & he's the only dedicated winger we've got.

Agreed, our finishing was profligate last night & we must do better, but I must disagree that Mahrez was very good in either half.

We're in desperate need for a new overlapping left footed left back, a quick traditional winger or two. We just don't seem to have that Sterling/Sane option to switch our style of attack any longer.

We already know Gundog may leave in the summer & KDB will be 32 by then too, & we're STILL surrounded by Bernardo uncertainty... AGAIN! We've potentially got a very big midfield/winger rebuilding job ahead of us.
 
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jimharri said:
You should have seen the match thread!
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I didn't go last night, watched on Prime. I must admit if we'd had a cat it would have feared a kicking with Jack's first half misses. However to show the lads resolve he made up for it second half. I dont read or post on the match thread. I prefer to see how the game spans out rather than react half way through.
 
Dave El Magico said:
Overall a good performance and the main thing is, we got 3 points. Thought the defence tired a little towards the end and got a little bit sloppy but other than that, I am a very happy Blue. I think that some on here forget that the Premier League is certainly one of the best in the World. Ok, Leeds may not be the best of teams this year, but there are no easy games. As we have already seen, teams like Brentford and Leeds have already taken points when not expected!
Young Lewis and KDB were magnificent and let’s be honest Erling should have scored another hat trick, not that I am complaining he only got 2
Our support from the travelling Blues was fantastic last night and I just hope that we can all create a good atmosphere for the team on Saturday.
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That’s the thing, if you go on the match thread, a lot of us seem to get impatient expecting us to be blowing teams away in the opening minutes of games.

It doesn’t really work like that in top flight football most of the time. We should remember there’s 11 men facing us who are players that have made it to this level for a reason. You can’t always just sweep teams aside from the first minute of the game without resistance.

Any of us would’ve taken a 3-1 win at the start of the game. should we have scored more? Yeah but every team thinks that about missed chances. Go on any teams forum after a win and you’ll see them say “we could have had 4 or 5”
 
If somebody can get a video of us beating that press, it'd be much appreciated. I posted it earlier but it's been struck by copyright on Twitter so can't see it anymore.
 
Charlesfarsbar said:
Average performance overall but a decent result

we looked far too casual in the second half for my liking especially after conceding the first. The game management is sometimes lacking and playing the situation in frontof you just isn’t there

we take too many risks at the back when not needed , surely a more conservative approach to see put the game would work

this bit us on the arse against Real Madrid last season and I could see the same unfolding last night.

Play the percentage ball down the channel rather than looking for a risky square ball into midfield

basics of football as a great man once said
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What a load of shite
 
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