I'm going to switch off radio Leeds shortly. Henderson saves a penalty and the commentators reaction is a wildly petty 'well, it was a great height for the keeper'. Now they score, and man it's irritating. Mind you, sounds like we have'nt turned up. The similarities between Guy Luzón and Bob Peeters are growing weekly.
I wonder if starting Eagles instead of Gudmundsson is to help decide whether to give the former a contract? If so, he has not helped himself. JBG replaces him at half-time.
74 mins. 1-1 Watt converts a difficult chance after great work from Gudmundsson. 78 mins. 2-1. Great throw by Henderson sets Gudmundsson on a long run. Keeper save his shot but Vetokele is brought down going for the rebound. Buyens buries the penalty. 8 out of 8 for him. Interesting stat by commentator. We have scored from every penalty this season but have not conceded one. Kermorgant equalises for Bournemouth. Francis sent off for Bournemouth but they go 2-1 up. Puts us in 10th position. Final whistle. 2-1. A tale of two penalties.
JBG is undropable Understand why he gave Eagles a chance - but we made it so hard for ourselves. 3 points is3 points though. Leeds unlucky, looked lively in the first half and much better than I thought. Plus, I'll stick to my first prediction
Obviously he wasn't "dropped". Either rested or they wanted to assess Eagles for a permanent contract. Or they wanted to avoid JBG getting injured before a massive bid of 500,000 pounds comes in. (I don't really believe that. Just winding up Super).
Dreadful first half, we should have been dead and buried. Hopefully Luzon can impress on Roland the importance of extending Gudmundsson's contract. We don't have anyone else who can make the sort of pass which he made for Watt's well taken goal.
Tribal loyalty dragged me along in the end yesterday, and I am glad I went. Fair play to the Leeds fans for both their numbers, and the volume of their support. Did anyone else hear the tannoy announcement at full time not to turn left into Floyd Road? Either I misheard, but ended up on a right detour back to the car. I thought Leeds No.2 was the best player on the pitch, rivalled only by JBGs excellent second half effort. My player ratings: Henderson 9 - MOM. Outstanding. Solly 6 - not at his best Fox - 5 - Tin Man on stilts Gomez - 8- what a prospect this boy looks at centre half. Some lovely touches. So much time on the ball. A young Rio Ferdinand. Could be sold for an absolute fortune in time. Ben Haim - 6- another who has regressed in recent weeks Eagles- 5- looks several notches below JBG Buyens -7 - one of Grasshoppers better games. Good penalty. Cousins -6- came on for Diarra after 10 min. Not his best game. Bulot- 6 - a few nice touches Watt -6 - poor apart from his well taken goal Igor - 3 - sorry, absolute ****e again. Awful control and poor work rate. Looks totally disinterested. JBG - half time sub .....class.....but fear he will be sold this summer.
Did anyone else think Watt's goal was Palo Di Canio-esque? Was a class goal, but that's all he done. I think that the problem is, that Vetokele and Watt are too similar strikers. Like to pick up the ball and run it to goal. Our problem in the first half was that Bulot and Eagles were putting good balls into the box, but none of our strikers were attacking them. They were more content to stand off!
