Good Morning. It's Monday 19th February, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road Comfortable in the end as Whites regain 2nd spot Leeds became the first club in almost four months (last October) to beat Plymouth Argyle at Home Park on Saturday lunchtime, as Daniel Farke's young Whites regained the coveted second spot in the Championship. Leeds have now picked up maximum points in all eight of their league games in 2024, but had to grind down a stubborn and resolute Pilgrims side. If our trip to the Devon Riviera almost a fortnight ago had taught us anything, it's Plymouth will fight for every ball, and fight they did! The visitors started the game on the front foot and deservedly took the lead on ten minutes. Gnonto latched on to Rutter's hopeful punt up the pitch, quickly bringing the ball under his spell deep within the visitors penalty area. He spun around to lose his marker, before firing the ball diagonally, low and hard, flat footing Hazard. It looked as if it may be another walk in the park for Farke's side, but the hosts had other idea's. The game turned scrappy, and this suited the home team. A lack of composure in the final third meant Meslier was rarely troubled; but Leeds didn't look altogether comfortable until Rutter put the game beyond Plymouth's reaches, slotting the ball through the legs of Hazard, with barely twenty minutes on the clock. It was far from a vintage performance, but comfortable in the end. Grinding out results when you're not playing particularly well is a surefire sign that the club are on the right pathway to promotion, but with 13 games still to play, anything can happen! please log in to view this image Leeds give perfect response to Sky Sports peace talks If you're going to rub Leeds fans up the wrong back, then you better be prepared to take your medicine, as Sky Sports recently found out! The broadcasting giants have always had a volatile relationship with the Elland Road faithful, due to constantly changing times and dates of fixtures at short notice, with little concern for those that attend games on a regular basis. In exchange, the fans sing some unsavoury things about Sky Sports from the terraces. As Phil Hay recounts, when Sky Sports recently asked a Leeds Utd employee how they should try and make peace with the Elland Road faithful, they got a response they would not have been expecting! "Not so long ago, an employee of Sky Sports asked a member of staff at Leeds United how the broadcaster should go about making peace with the club’s support. Like clockwork, every televised game involving Leeds was generating chants about Sky, chants no television company would choose to air before the watershed. "Any manager of Leeds should be told in advance that life in the Championship involves accommodating the EFL’s broadcast partner. The battleground between the club and Sky is as old as the hill Sky would happily die on. "The only answer Leeds could offer was this: perhaps stop sending them to Plymouth Argyle at lunchtime on a Saturday". please log in to view this image Leeds favourites to tame foxes Leeds are 11/10 favourites to beat top of the table Leicester City at the weekend according to leading bookies Bet365. Their unassailable lead at the top of the Championship got cut to nine points at the weekend, after being beaten by Middlesbrough, and will now be looking over their backs as Leeds try to complete the double over the foxes for the first time since the 94/95 season! It's not ideal timing for Leeds, as they face Chelsea in the last 16 of the FA Cup, just five days after the top of the table clash! Leicester are 14/5 (almost 3/1), whilst the draw is 12/5 please log in to view this image
Morning all Leeds fans. Surprised at that 14/5 price on a Leicester win. Yes we're on a fantastic run but it still seems quite generous. Hope the bookies are vindicated.
Morning all. Interesting week ahead as there could be 4 teams at the top of the table separated by only 6 points by the end of it. All to play for then and especially as Southampton play Leicester soon as well.
Morning Excellent away performance again against a stubborn, difficult team ... we saw in the Cup games how difficult they can make it, specially at Home Park ... every other team in this division will take that 2-0 happily, solid 3 points well earned ... they had scored 39 goals at home before Leeds stumbled out of bed and nilled them, have to be pleased with how hard Plymouth found it to create anything meaningful Sky? Fk them!! Cancelled my Sky service a year ago and don't miss it one bit ... if 6m Sky subscribers did the same, the Prem would be fkd Leicester will be flying at us on Friday, they know they can't afford to lose and cut the gap to just 6 points ... a win stretches their advantage to 12 and relieves the pressure, but plunges Leeds into a proper fight where one mistake can fk it all up ... this is a massive fixture for both clubs and the winner will get a big nudge forward ... c'mon Leeds!!
Morning all. Hard to believe we’re not running away with promotion given the run we’ve been on. I’m sure other teams at top probably saying similar. Glancing at the pl results over weekend and once again patently obvious the colossal gulf In class of The newly promoted teams. They were mullered again
Last season in the PL though the relegation places weren't decided until the final day. So even though we were bloody awful we nearly stayed up and if we'd had a bit more fight from some of the players when going away to Bournemouth & West Ham we probably would have. Now I know you didn't enjoy getting beaten most weeks but it was still fairly fine margins for going down and if we'd made the right managerial choices throughout the season we could have been comfortable in the lower reaches by that final day.
Yes the gulf is huge in the PL but we still managed to win at Man City & Liverpool during our 3 year stay and also many other creditable performances/results before the wheels fell off. We were never like Burnley or Sheff Utd are this season.
I've said plenty times on here and other places I believe we are the best team in this league. I respect Leicester but I don't fear them in any way. If we started with less turmoil at the start of the season from who was in charge to who's staying, who's coming in. we would of been in a similar position to Leicester. Leicester I will give credit but they not the team everyone on the news are getting on their knees for. I'd personally love to see them under some pressure. if we do beat them Friday night and the other two win as well they will be starting to think a bit more. Every pundit think they are going to walk the division and maybe they will. but you know what maybe they won't. football is a funny old game teams can fold under pressure Newcastle were going to win the league a few year back under Keegan but knuckled it when the pressure was on. They shouldn't fuk it up in the position they are in but nothing is handed on a plate. Had a quick look at the odds just now and we have went from 11/10 to 10/11 prob a bit to short now but I defo see us as favourites especially with us being unbeaten at home all season and on this run. I've still got my positive head on and still think we can win this league never mind 2nd place and I won't stop believing it till its mathematically impossible. I want us to go out there on Friday night and show the whole world who's the best team in the championship and I firmly believe we will. MOT!!!!!!!!!
I hope you’re right but I just don’t have your sense of faith. Totally agree with you that the team that handles the pressure best will go up. I’m just hoping that for this to be true that Farke’s experience of being promoted from this division twice will give us the edge now that squeaky bum time is about to arrive.
Totally agree. Let's go out there on Friday night and put down a massive marker to not only Leicester but the whole division.
