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The Footie Thread

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Nice to win, but Leeds looked pretty poor tbh. Are there going to be 3 worse teams at the end of the season?
Unusual not to be thinking that about us...
 
Since Antonio got injured (bar an awful 45 mins against villa where he shouldn't have played) we have won 4 games now

That's a massive positive for me. Shows we can play without him however when he back it will be good
 
pauljames87 said:
If they shared it to him he would score

Did you not see his overhead?
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I did, he was looking directly at the closest defender. There was 0 need to overhead.

I also saw him ruin every touch in the box, and have an unmarked header that almost bounced off his feet. Defensively his headers were very good, and his first touch neat the halfway line incredible. Confidence is shot.
 
DanFST said:
I did, he was looking directly at the closest defender. There was 0 need to overhead.

I also saw him ruin every touch in the box, and have an unmarked header that almost bounced off his feet. Defensively his headers were very good, and his first touch neat the halfway line incredible. Confidence is shot.
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Confidence keeps getting destroyed

Goal at Sheffield United will have boosted it but that slip will have ruined it all
 
pendodave said:
Nice to win, but Leeds looked pretty poor tbh. Are there going to be 3 worse teams at the end of the season?
Unusual not to be thinking that about us...
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Theres more than 3 for sure

Actually think 2nd half of the season may be a struggle for Leeds, the high tempo game has to suffer as the season goes on having had no real pre season. Should still be more than safe though
 
pendodave said:
Nice to win, but Leeds looked pretty poor tbh. Are there going to be 3 worse teams at the end of the season?
Unusual not to be thinking that about us...
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That was the worst Leeds have played this season by a long way. Like I said, we managed to make West Ham look half decent in the second half. We just weren't at it tonight for some reason.
We've had games like this occasionally.
We'll be OK.
 
fundy said:
Theres more than 3 for sure

Actually think 2nd half of the season may be a struggle for Leeds, the high tempo game has to suffer as the season goes on having had no real pre season. Should still be more than safe though
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People keep saying this. We've played at this tempo for two long sessions in the championship. Yest the PL is faster, but the Championship is more physical. The tempo isn't the problem. Defending set pieces with our two best central defenders out injured is.
 
BiMGuy said:
People keep saying this. We've played at this tempo for two long sessions in the championship. Yest the PL is faster, but the Championship is more physical. The tempo isn't the problem. Defending set pieces with our two best central defenders out injured is.
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we'll see, think the lack of pre season will show things up (it will at arsenal where we have one of the least fit sides in the prem!)

every side has injuries, depth of squad and protecting them going to be more important than ever this season
 
I was surprised his poor Leeds were from set pieces .. the championship Is a strong league surely they knew and would address?

Too many stupid free kicks given away

Costa cost the game if you will
 
Second week in a row I've left Soucek on my fantasy bench and he's bloody scored. I'll put him back in and he won't score in 6 months now. :mad:
 
I'd be worried if I was a Leeds fan. They've been really poor for a month or so now and the lack of a striker is so obvious. Bamford is a Championship striker at best, even then he's a 1 in 3 player. You can't fault the way they play or the effort but they've got nothing upfront and will get done at set pieces every week.
 
4LEX said:
I'd be worried if I was a Leeds fan. They've been really poor for a month or so now and the lack of a striker is so obvious. Bamford is a Championship striker at best, even then he's a 1 in 3 player. You can't fault the way they play or the effort but they've got nothing upfront and will get done at set pieces every week.
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I mean they signed Rodrigo who was a reasonable La Liga striker. Although his goal record isn't great either, I think more of a winger maybe. I think this might be a Bielsa problem, he really likes flexible players so he can change formations a lot, but that means no out-and-out striker really. Bamford does have 8 goals in 11 games, which is pretty good, even if it includes a hat-trick against whoever it was. I think he's a bit like a poor man's Giroud, with a good all round game and a nice touch just will miss quite a few good chances as well (and not as good in the air as Giroud even though he is just as tall).
 
4LEX said:
I'd be worried if I was a Leeds fan. They've been really poor for a month or so now and the lack of a striker is so obvious. Bamford is a Championship striker at best, even then he's a 1 in 3 player. You can't fault the way they play or the effort but they've got nothing upfront and will get done at set pieces every week.
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I'm not worried.
We were miles better than Arsenal, we're comfortable against Everton. We were well beaten by Chelsea, but did have spells early on in that game where we played OK. Considering the cost of their squad I wouldn't have expected to get anything against them.
We were poor last night without our two first choice central defenders. Just one of those games.
 
BiMGuy said:
I'm not worried.
We were miles better than Arsenal, we're comfortable against Everton. We were well beaten by Chelsea, but did have spells early on in that game where we played OK. Considering the cost of their squad I wouldn't have expected to get anything against them.
We were poor last night without our two first choice central defenders. Just one of those games.
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Leeds will be fine. It already looks like 3 from 4 to go down. One of them will go on a run with a new manager or something as what normally happens, and someone else will get dragged in, like Brighton or Arsenal (hehe). Or I could see Palace or Newcastle dropping in rather than Leeds to be honest, I think they have enough about them.
 
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