Bielsa will never learn. I think Bielsa is a good coach as far as improving certain players and creating better football, however, tactics and getting over final hurdles seem to be his flaws.........Bielsa is being out coached by other coaches, and Bielsa has no answers. When teams come at us from the off, or get in our faces and stop us playing football (which seems to be the trend with opposing coaches at moment) our players don't know what to do, they don't have any answers.....Bielsa's stubborn streak is creating problems for the team and our performances. 1st goal is on Kiko, a keeper shouldn't allow a shot to get past him through a very small space between him and post. One of the basic rules for keepers, know where your post is and guard it. Kiko not at fault for second. Phillips, who was it that said he's worth 35 to 50 mill, he must've meant buttons. Phillips, who's supposed to be part of our defence was once again nowhere to be seen. I'm sure there'll be excuses for him, but he was nowhere near helping out the defence for both goals.........again. Bamford, get rid......Edmonson would do a much better job than nearly Bamford. Harrison, bench him and put Alioski back on wing. Harrison back to his normal self after a good first half performance against Arsenal. Ayling, time to go, he lost his player (as he does a lot) down wing which lead to their 2nd goal. Time to bring back Berardi at RB or LB. Bad subbing by Bielsa in bringing Klich off, we play better football when Klich and Pablo are on together, even better football when / if Forshaw comes back to make up the trio. Our football has dramatically waned, teams are coming at us, harassing us, getting in our faces and stopping us playing football. As previously mentioned, when teams come at us we don't seem to have answers, and definitely not a plan B; if the team has no answers it means Bielsa has no answers, he's a one trick stubborn pony. If you want to know what other fans are thinking, read the comments in the videos. Expect Bielsa to put same team out for next match, including nearly Bamford. This is last season's Deja Vu, or groundhog day, we are on a slide, from 11 points clear of third to 6 points clear.................Brentford won't give up the chase. Try to enjoy. Ext highlights Full second half..........Not sure if it'll show up for everyone, it should. Bielsa post match Monk post match Wainmanjoe post match comments Oscar post match, and a change of opinion. It's that kid again. A new kid on block.
Time to sack this Bielsa clown & bring in Captain Jackboot. He seems to know what he's talking about as he never varies it. But then, that's in his own little world, isn't it? Pre-writes his match report & apportions blame before the game starts, & just tweaks it with a facts or two to it the game into his agenda. Honestly, what did Clivetime do that was as bad as this? Sure, he had his obsession with Grayson, but I don't recall an all out attack on our players after every game. This cnut does it, win lose or draw. I've asked before, but still haven't heard the mods tell me what Clive did that was worse than Captain Jackboot here. I don't mind constructive criticism, or even unwarranted criticism generated by anger. But I simply cannot stand someone having an anti-Leeds agenda on here, especially when anyone challenging it is derided & called all the idiots of the world. I'm waiting, mods. I get very angry when we lose, but this guy is getting me even angrier even when we win. If he was called ILoveManU instead of LL, would you still allow him to post this pish? I've genuinely had enough of this. There must be other sites that don't have clowns like this ruining my day. Every day. Rant over, but not forgotten. Don't you think it's time to have a word, mods? Or do you approve of his WUMing? I've already formed an opinion by your inaction.
Totally agree WJ. I have for quite some time believed that this is all wummery and so I treat it as such. If everybody else did the same then I think it would go away and once again I agree with you, where are the MODs. If this had been the "one who cannot be named" he would have been stitched up and banned a long time ago, LL isn't even funny or entertaining. From the highlights posted it really looked like we played them off the park except for that all important detail of goal scoring, yes Bamford missed but so did Costa, Klich, Harrison and I guess others not shown on the highlights, we need to fix up goal scoring. I don't know how to do that, but apart from this, admittedly very important aspect, the team seem to be unplayable at this level.
@Whitejock @Eric Le Merde Southgate was at the game running the rule over Phillips. Man U scouts have reported back to OGS that they should consider signing him. It doesn’t matter who is commentating on Leeds ex pros and coaches alike, they all rave over Phillips. Bielsa has been nominated for the second month running for manager of the month, several world class managers and coaches have raved about how great he is tactically. Ayling won player of the month for December... These are the three being knocked by LL this morning, we all know how he feels towards several Leeds players, we could write the script ourselves. Personally I’m grateful for the video links, I have to remind myself the rest is just his own personal view, admitted it is not shared by anyone else and it always has a negative agenda towards the players he dislikes but.... He started this thread, if we don’t like it, don’t bother replying (myself included), don’t bother visiting it, the difference with Clive is he ruined every thread going. You could have a thread about January transfers or Off Topic Politics and he’d inject anti Grayson bile. I try to refrain from pointing out where LL is wrong, it’s pointless. I don’t personally believe he should be banned or spoken to, I don’t see it as being like Clivetime if @bucks_is_leeds or @ellandback feel differently I’m happy to discuss. I’ve put this out in the open as the question has been asked in the opening two replies and members have also asked for more openness going forward on how decisions are made.
Whether you believe LL to be a deliberate WUM or just a showcase example of the dunning Kruger effect, is down to the individual to decide. see he’s back on the ‘can’t handle it when teams come at us from the off’ train again. Like it’s some new tactic the opposition are using... Even though we were well on top in the first half. 1st goal, Phillips was getting into position to be a potential receiver for Dallas when Dallas lost the ball. 2nd goal it was Phillips who closed down the guy who passed to reach. Ayling lost reach, Cooper was ball watching instead of watching nuhiu Both goals in transition though when we’re bound to be vulnerable with the players we commit to attack, especially chasing the game late on.
https://www.footballtransfertavern....nimpressed-with-helder-costas-latest-showing/ One of many sources slamming Costas performance. I expect him to drop back to the bench and be replaced by Pablo next game. This however is a prime example of fans getting to the players as the article posts twitter feeds from fans opinions. *Edit* I see one of the tweets is from one of our own on here
For the first goal... Phillips wins a tackle just over the half way line, advances with the ball but then hits a misplaced pass to Harrison and we lose possession. As he's unable to be in two places at once we now don't have anyone sitting in front defensively. It's a consequence of how we play and Ben White had also advanced (pressed) to the half way line but as he wasn't in possession had time to drop back again. So yes, Phillips did have a part to play but after that there were several opportunities to prevent the goal. Alioski heads a hopeful ball down the line directly up in the air. Dallas comes out second best in the resulting 50/50 aeriel challenge. The ball breaks infield and Ben White doesn't close down. Cooper allows the ball to be payed through his outside left channel without getting a block in. Casilla lets a near post shot from an acute angle in at his near post. In other words a typical late goal when you've been pushing hard for nearly 90 mins to force the win. Should we have retained a better defensive shape in a game we're not losing and did the substitutions help or hinder ? I guess those are the questions LL is posing, unfortunately any good analysis is completely lost as he continually used the same empty rhetoric week in week out. To be fair to LL though, there are plenty of others who are equally as critical of certain players and how we continually play in a style with no apparent alternative. It's probably fair to say those posters have adopted entrenched positions as well but for some reason their views are not judged as antagonistically as LL's.
