I should be quite pleased that we salvaged a draw but it was another crap defensive display. A few positives but far too many negatives, we signed Pugh for what? Is he our new left midfielder, if so not a patch on Gradel. If cover to protect White we still conceded three could have been more. O'Dea and Bromby were useless as a pairing, I cringed at every set piece and corner and what is it when Lonergan has the ball, long punt upfield giving the opposition the ball 9/10. Snodgrass once again looked outof sorts, maybe I am being unfair on him expecting him to perform like seasons before and shine. You just know opposition managers are drumming it into their teams, keep going keep attacking, Leeds are pathetic at defending you WILL score goals against them.
Leeds to win this one. Brighton will be tired from their mid week exploits. (Sorry Brighton fans - I have tipped u for promotion though)
you're only about an hour and a half late. Cracking match tonight, disturbing that Brighton were the better team. And I don't mean Leeds were poor, Leeds played well and didn't seem to take their foot off the pedal the whole game, just were outdone. Something wrong in training, seem too inflexible and lacking options for what to do if plan A doesn't work.
Nah just the defense mate, when we had a goal kick or Lonergan had the ball he booted it upfield giving Brighton the possession back. We have a bench full of center midfielders and strikers, when Clayton is playing out of his Skin, Howson is captain and your two strikers get a goal each it is hard to make changes when you were 2-0 up and your defence allows the opposition to walk through them.
we're lacking width since Gradel got sold. Why is Snodgrass still starting? Where the **** is Lloyd Sam? The defenders are getting it wrong time and again, Lonergans kicks are going the way of Schmeichels, so to me that says defensive coaching and goalkeeper coaching is lacking. It could also be to do with the mediocre defenders we have and the fact that old fat bastard won't let Grayson spend more than 2 bob on a player.
i think the only people to have enjoyed that match are the neutrals. Too much to both sets of fans to be annoyed about. We didn't turn up for the first half and then managed to let a lead slip in injury time and you messed it from a 2 goal lead. Guess a draw was just about a fair result. If we'd scored our sitter in the first couple of minutes i think it would have been a very different game.
Well done Leeds, I was doing back flips when the 3rd went in. Almost as good as when Jobi scored the winner in injury time at thier place, their poor little faces. Bless em Roll on Tuesday night, "lets get ready to rumble"
Wed have happily taken a draw before the game but unfortunately the manner of the draw was a bit of a shambles. Hard to understand cos on paper we have a decent team, good midfield and an abundance of in form strikers. Even thought defence looked ok in first half. That dumb ass thrown at the start of the second half started the rot. We only had to survive first ten minutes and we have been ok. Of course you also get to go through the full range of emotions during a Leeds game, ecstacy, depression, frustration, anger. Maybe we can sign another elastoplast for our defence this week
It's clear to me, we got off lightly in the first half, as Brighton didn't turn up. We didn't play anything great and when we tried to do the same in the 2nd half, we met the real Brighton (on a massive confidence run and with good players in a decent team) and we simpy fell apart, especially the defence. We have 7 points from the last 3 games, despite being ****e at times and average at others. I'm now 100% definate that everything I ever said about O'Dea is correct and I wish he would just leave Leeds and find another source of employment.
The most worrying thing for us is that we were, for large parts, outplayed by a team that should have been more knackered after our midweek Carling Cup matches. I don't think Leeds really backed off like normal, we were just outplayed by a better team. It's worrying that a team that just came up is better than us, but that's the thing. You get what you pay for and Bates pays **** all.