Good Morning Everyone Leeds came from two goals down to earn a credible draw against Championship play off hopefuls Bristol City. However, Leeds defensive frailties were once again magnified due to Weidwald's inability to catch the ball and our back four powerless to deal with a simple long throw in. These are surely simple things? If the players aren't doing the basics wells, how can they attempt the more difficult? Wiedwald has punched the ball more than any other Championship keeper. This fact was highlighted on twitter only last week! Saiz, Cooper and Berardi will be back on Wednesdays trip to Derby. Do Cooper and Berardi deserve to start? Who would you rather have Cooper or Pennington? Does Hernandez need a break? Is Lasogga finally finding his form? How was Dallas on the wing? The the fcul is up with Anita's spine? We want to hear from you!!!!
Morning all 2 stand out things that sum up our season so far WTF was the set-piece coach doing as we cant even defend a long throw. They had a few but scored from the first 2 which is a shambles. When we get crosses into strikers we can score goals. Pablo crossed the ball twice and we scored - football isnt hard if you play sensible. We have no height at the back which is a problem for us constantly and teams use the Ariel route in every game as it upsets our balance. Need more height. Lassoga has toiled away all season with no support and managed to create 7 goals by himself from scraps and a fantastic shooting ability. PH has given him support now although yesterday highlighted yet again that our strikers didnt get a ball to run onto or a cross to attack in the first half so no attempts at goal!!! Last week Pablo came on and immediately got a cross in from the left and a blinding header from Lassoga got us back in the game. Yesterday Pablo in the second half got a cross in from the right and there was Lassoga again to score, he then put in a great corner and Roofe scored. 3 decent crosses in 2 games up to that point resulted in 3 goals. Lassoga was unlucky not getting the winner due to being fed. We need to get the ball into strikers or we cant score simple goals, you can only score harder goals by shooting from out side the box or hoping a mazy run splits a defence ... Lassoga is now in the Championships top 3 strikers for minutes per goal. Vydra is well ahead on 107 minutes and Grabban on 133 minutes, but Lassoga has a goal every 143 minutes which is stunning compared to the rest who are around 200 minutes and many more way over 250 minutes. Berardi and Saiz should go into the team now and I think Cooper needs to be on the bench as Pennington has done fairly well, he did very well in the last match but all the defenders were mixed up yesterday. Felix had another mare which cost us and even though he has pulled off some stunning saves in recent games, a goalkeepers mistakes always get punished, and now think a new keeper is required but not Lonners
Morning elland i think spit should start and if he does not work his guts out then should be thrown to the away fans.cooper is a tricky one but i suppose heckythump will want to look him over. I reckon we are looking at players to keep now and weeding out the dross.sacko can go for me just loan him out to bradford city.the keeper is an absolute liability and what about that useless twat roofe scoring again how dare he.four top class champ players and this squad is top six.five or six good additions and we are talking autos next season.
Morning all. What a finish to a game? What a shame we always seem to be a goal or two down before we turn up. That first goal - ok Felix deserves every criticism thrown at him and it has been touched on a lot. The question i ask is what were the defenders doing? After the ball landed at the city players feet he took an age to get his feet right before shooting. Our defenders just let him. They seemed to freeze and no one dare put a tackle in or even just put him under pressure. Disgraceful. I liked the 442 but not sure what heck sees in o Kane? He can ping a pass but the laat two games have shown that is all he has to him. For 442 to work you need two very good all round midfielders in the middle. In Forshaw we have one but Phillips or Viera has to start alongside him.
Good points from hemase, but Phillips is a bit marmite on here. He started the season on fire and was scoring goals, but ever since he just scores yellow cards. He doesn't seem to be able to pass and he really does miss-time some tackles. WE need another Forshaw and Viera could be it if he turned up last last season, O'Kane did it for Bournemouth so whats happened to him? We have the players but we want them in the form we know they have, or they will all be out next season.
Morning Doc, Lasogga seems more settled now. I know his gf and kid have now moved to Leeds and are loving it; I'm sure that helps. He seems to be putting himself about a bit morr. Fair play to the lad.
Morning Wakey. Theres no room for nearly players. Unfortunately they never seem to come good. I'd put Sacko, Roofe, O'Kane, Berardi, Felix and Anita in this category. They all need to go imo
A case in point is our Sarf London friends have spent fook all in the transfer market and are two points below us.
Morning Hemase, we need a 5-3-2 formation imo next season. Be interesting to see how De Bock settles In, early days so far.
I did make a case for a 532 in another post. Dallas would be a big part of that for me. I was pleased to see him play in the midfield yesterday. Another great passer of the ball to feed PML
I don't know how to read By Eck yet, but got a feeling he was not blaming the goals all on Felix. He said very clearly, if you concede from a set piece usually someone has not done their job, and later said Felix had very little to do apart from the goals - somehow I did not get the idea he had it all down to the goalie. But as I say I don't know how to interpret him yet. I'll take a look at the highlights on LUTV when they can be arsed to put them up Although I've seen O Kane play well, based on recent performances I have to agree hes not my first choice. Did PH play 4-4-2 at Barnsley does anyone know, I'm a bit puzzled how we can incorporate Sais into the team if we play 442 (and apart from his tendency to gob on people and get 6 match holidays, he's someone who gives us a greater dimension).
