Best team today lost but Rashford is quality and Bamford wasteful and awful at times, Harrison greedy and wasteful….. there’s the difference. We deserved at least another point today. Summerville great first half, Gnonto great 2nd half. Georginio looks to be a handful and deserves to start against Everton as he could be unplayable given a head of steam. Harrison should have gone off at half time Skibby. All the defence played well again today even Firpo who I thought was going to get smashed to bits buthe was quality, Ayling did well again but he is too old for back to back games in a week. Loved Adams and McKennie…… we need to smash Everton now or season over
Exactly this mate, we took 1 point at scum that no one expected us to. We were never outclassed in either game. My glass is half full. MOT
At the risk of heresy, I thought Firpo was far better than Struijk and made us look more balanced. We still concede two goals a game and that is a real worry
Harrison is very good at pressing, very intelligent on positioning, has a great 1st touch, a good engine, a great attitude to work, can swing some great crosses in but he just can't unlock the defence. He doesn't have the vision to be the playmaker.
All this waffle about how good we played doesn't matter one iota, we can't close out a game for love nor money. We were cruising to a 0-0 today with 10 mins left and they score from probably their first attack of the second half. I'm sick of it, we get one point from the 2 games and they get four. We can't score goals and we can't keep a clean sheet. How is that a recipe for staying up?
I don't think we'll see the best of Rutter until next season and we'll only see him next season if we stay up.
Harrison is so frustrating, he is on the cusp of being an excellent player if only his decision making could improve.
I am sure we are all sadly twirling and looking into our pint glasses (apart from Emu because he is virginal or something) and, of course we may well go down but….. we are one or two signings and a tweak here or there away from being a really decent side. I hold my hands up, Jammy was right, Marcos was wrong, Firpo was blooming good today and may just be a player after all. Everything is not lost, we may well get out of this and I still think, if we do, we won’t look back. Jan and the boys have flown out today to the Caribbean so I am going to sign out for the day and enjoy a bit of my own space
we do not have time left this season to pamper rutter with his tricks and flicks.we need a playmaker and will have to hope harrison plays well next game.
It’s a catch 22 Summerville was diabolical if you looked at just his finishing in front of goal but absolutely first class in the build up. A big part of why we dominated was Ayling and Summerville down the right, they were immense. Bamford is a worry, I can’t help feeling if Rodrigo had been starting we’d have won that. Harrison was okay today, he did a lot of defending in the middle. I agree with Shaks it would be unfair to pick anyone out for too much criticism
I think the problem is who will we chase down? My gut feeling is that Everton have enough to get clear, as do West Ham. The club’s I thought would be around us (Brentford and Fulham) are over the hills and far away. Which just leaves Forest, which is why that loss was so damaging. We play good football but just can’t seem to buy a win and have no luck. Maybe we should build a new ground and get away from the fabled curse that Don believed in.
I see now Marsch has gone, it’s ok to say we played well and were unlucky. Ultimately for all our promise and endeavour it generally takes us too many chances to score relative to the opposition at this level. Been the same all season.
Ristac, I'll pick someone out if you like. Bamford was dreadful, he's not PL standard any longer (if he ever was). Rutter needs to start and maybe give Bamford 10 mins near the end. When Rodrigo comes back that'll be the end of Bamford.
It's a curse being a Leeds fan. Harrison presses well, gets a chance and usually completely fks it up. If Rutter is the answer the question must be 'how can you spunk 35m on someone who is no better than what you have already. Our delivery was woeful again and our finishing didn't happen. I don't care how well we played we fkn lost! For years now we've been like headless chickens in the final third. We just don't convert chances. We aren't going to batter anyone because we score about 1 in 10 of the chances we get.
