We are truly awful (and you will survive, good luck to you), but you cannot deny that there were some absolutely atrocious refereeing decisions in that first half which destroyed the match for us. To be honest, we are used to it. It’s just it’s normally the likes of Chelsea, Man U etc who get ridiculous refereeing favours. Nonetheless, you deserved the win. We are so bad defensively.
Today's ratings. Meslier - 5. Didn't have a lot to do but his kicking was poor and he could have commanded his box a bit better, certainly at the end. Ayling - 6. Dived in too much. Lucky to escape a red. Lucky not to give a penalty away. However, gave everything he had and more. Linked defence and attack very well at times. Llorente - 6. Scrapped, fought, put his head where it hurts. Got caught by Pukki running off him on the long ball too often to warrant a higher score. Struijk - 6. Back to looking composed after a few poor games. Don't recall too many defensive blunders but guilty of missing a glaring chance from a corner. Dallas - 6. Another who dived in too much. Looked alot better than Firpo. Did well to get forward but caught out once or twice defensively. Forshaw - 5. Ratted, ran, chased, harassed. Made some questionable passes that against better teams would see us concede. Committed. Klich - 7. Held his position. Pressed at the right time. Neat and tidy on the ball. Solid. Rodrigo - 9. Never seen him run so hard. Got stuck in, played some intelligent passes, broke forward, scored, ran his blood to water. This guy on todays performance is the 29 million player we wanted. His celebration that brought the whole squad, coaching staff together was superb leadership. My MOTM. James - 6. Worked hard, used his pace, got stuck in. His final ball is awful and had a few glaring chances where he should be scoring. Forced a good save from the edge of the area. Raphinha - 8. Looked in tandem with Rodrigo. Workrate was back. Hit bar with free kick and assisted Gelhardt for the winner. Much better. Bamford - 7. He didn't play that well. However, his presence at 9 gave us a focal point that we have missed all season. The chances we made first half were down to his movements largely. His shooting was woeful though. Subs. Harrison - 5. Another who ran his heart out. Didn't really offer much going forward but pushed Aarons back. Some poor crosses and a decent snapshot that warmed Kruls hands. Koch - 5. Game kind of passed him by. I thought he struggled to get to grips with it. Carried a nuisance value but offers nothing going forward. Gelhardt - 7. The winner was all him. Flicked it on and finished it off. Super sub does it again.
Thank god we won. Shame Watford did as well. Still gives us a chance of staying up. Didn’t see it but will watch on the sky catch up highlights
I thought the decisions by the ref & V.A.R were scandalous but Leeds deserved the win on chances. Begrudgingly accept the loss & hope you stay up .
Rodrigo with Bamford is what I’ve been waiting for all season, plus first time this season we had no square pegs. Joffy should have started with Bamford doing 2nd half joffy always makes stuff happen and with less than 100 mins he has scored 2 won 2 penalties and got an assist. First time this season Rodrigo got to play in his preferred role and boy what a baller. Think he took a knock and was taken off 5-0 at half time would have been fair, but we decided to add to the coronary care unit at LGI
Hiya bud. Don't worry about the natives. They are prickly at the best of times. Listen...we've had some absolute shocking referees this season. Some awful decisions, truly disgusting. I've said all week that we need a few decisions to go our way to turn this season around and we certainly got them today. I thought you should possibly have had a penalty in the first half. They've gone against us all season and we've had plenty like (and worse) than that not given in our favour. I thought Ayling was lucky to not see red for the lunge first half too. Bamford was offside for the goal but if you saw the goal West Ham scored against us in the cup you'd understand why us lot think that today's decision was fine. The penalty decision second half was ultimately the right decision. So yes, you got the ****ty end of the stick today imo. In saying that, we should have been 5 up at half time. We're not great but we dominated the game for the most part. I don't see where you get points from. You'll be playing in the Championship next year, I've still got a feeling we might be joining you.
The first goal was offside 2 tackles could have been straight red on Williams and Rashica, 2 penalties not given . Leeds still deserved the win but the decisions went your way . We are down no complaints but you got some luck today
