Good Morning. It's Monday 15th May, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road Just another day in the life of Leeds Utd Leeds live to fight another day, after a spirited comeback against high flying Newcastle Utd at the weekend; yet things could have been so different had they kept their cool. Drama is never far away from Elland Road, and in truth, re-runs of our 22-23 campaign, should carry a public health warning and a box of Prozac. The roof almost lifted after just seven minutes, when Leeds took the lead. Bamford's inch perfect cross found Rodrigo. His header could only be parried away by Pope, and Ayling, was on hand to bury the rebound from close range. Twenty minutes later, Leeds had a chance to double their lead after Joelinton upended Firpo in the box. The man in black pointed to the spot, as Leeds fans everywhere dared to believe they could escape the daunting grasps of the relegation trap door. We know what happens next, and frankly Michaela Ireland (Bamfords wife) scares me, so lets just say Leeds failed to convert their penalty. To rub salt into the Leeds Utd wounds, Newcastle equalised 90 seconds later with a spot kick of their own, through Callum Wilson. Midway through the second half, Newcastle were awarded another penalty after Firpo decided to take over goal keeping duties, and palm the ball away to safety (Meslier would have been proud). The referee was not amused, and pointed to the spot. As punishment for the blatant disregard to the rules, he made the former Barca man stay on the field (until injury time). Cool as you like, Wilson slotted home from twelve yards. Leeds equalised with 10 minutes remaining. The Magpies failed to clear their lines after a Forshaw corner. The ball fell kindly to Kristensen on the edge of the area. His volley took a huge deflection off Trippier as Leeds were afforded a rare piece of luck. In truth, Leeds were good value for their draw. They defended well, frustrated the visitors, and were dangerous on the counter. With a defence, leakier than a sieve, why Leeds have left it so late in the season to actually get men behind the ball, and frustrate their opponents is a mystery. please log in to view this image We're used to Bamford going missing during a match, but now, he's vanished from Social media too! Angry Leeds fans took to social media to lambast the Leeds No 9 after his second consecutive penalty miss, will resulted in him removing his twitter account! The 29yo has had a terrible campaign. Had he been a race house, there'd be a poignant smell of glue around Elland Road. To give him his dues, Bamford actually had his best game of the season at the weekend, but, it will be the penalty miss that fans will remember. Twitter lit up on Saturday evening, with thousands aiming insults and insinuations at the one time England forward, with some overstepping the mark. A handful of mindless idiots wished him dead, and even referred to stabbing his dog, or pushing his toddler daughter down the stairs. This is not right on any scale, and Paddy's wife Michelle Ireland had to intervene. She hunted down the worst culprits, highlighted their disguising behavior, and left the rest to the Leeds Utd faithful. please log in to view this image
Morning all. Mixed feelings about the result at the weekend. On one hand we looked a stronger team defensively. On the other hand Firpo is a liability. A point is better than nothing, but looking at the remaining fixtures, on paper looks like Everton have the better fixtures. It will be a small miracle if we get out of this mess and survive. I said that last season though, but this one is just a lot worse imo. I'll still have everthing crossed mind for the next game. Sadly its in London though... We know what usually happens in London..
Not much time left now. One thing we know is everything has to go our way in next two weeks incl Leicester losing tonight. Seen too many daft results in last two weeks to try predicting what anyone will do. Think it was Jammy who said a while back, if we go down, let's do it with a bit of class. Sadly, we appear to be doing the opposite with the mindless idiot running onto the field and later that evening the disgusting tweets to Bamford's family. Makes you wonder what kind of world these clowns inhabit
Good morning all In my humble opinion, with the short space of time he has been here, Sam has tightened things up all over the field, the defence a lot better, and going forward with a lot more purpose, however one thing he’s been unable to improve (and he never will) is the catastrophic player errors at both ends of the field, from glaring misses to pens missed & ridiculous scything down of attackers to defenders thinking they are on goal keeping duty, the only way to correct this in my mind, is to drop the players that are regularly making these mistakes , and not mentioning any names, I can think of three outfield players that need to be side lined for the last two games, or they will undoubtedly cost us our premier league status.
Although I strongly agree with you, who do we play for the ones we drop. For example, Firpo is suspended now. Next in line might be Struijk who gave a dumb penalty away the week before and has made as many, if not more, mistakes than Firpo. Players aren't good enough. You could bring in any coach and the players would still **** up. Add that to the mental fragility of this squad and its a recipe for disaster.
Just looking at the Table, i didn't realise that Newcastle had the tightest defence in the premier league at the time, twenty nine against. Just goes to show about fine margins as i felt that if we scored that penalty we would have tonked them. Also anothe fine one, if City could have just scored one more against Everton we would be out of the bottom three.
How about err anyone,could whoever came in would they be any worse than the incumbents who are currently in! we are in with a small shout still (tiny imo) but the fat lady has booked the recording studio and is laughing all the way to the bank as she doesn't need much new material with last year's songs still ready and waiting.....get down, deeper and down
OOPS should have looked at the all important points totals, as was just examining the GD at the time.
Big Sam has actually done pretty well and even though outclassed by City for much of the game we finished up penning them in at the death. They were afraid of an equaliser which would hurt their league form and give the Arsenal a chance. We did well and then against the geordies we could and should have won. Yes they had better players but we should have been 2 up before half time. Howe would have had to come after us and we are a counter attacking outfit who are capable of scoring in those situations…. It could have been 3 or 4 but we only drew. But we played first and third in the league and did pretty well overall. Well done Sam
It is harsh that Bamford has been singled out and that includes me but that does not give anybody the right to hurl vile abuse. These tossers should be punished to the full extent but thanks to social medias inaction they get away with it. The reality is as Emu has said we don't have the quality in the squad to make much difference. However, I still don't think Barndoor should start the next two games as we just don't have the luxury of time left. Start Willy..... Up town, down town Little Willy, Willy drives them wild with his run-around style Inside, outside Willy sends them silly with his star-shine shimmy shuffle smile
Regretting we didn’t get him after Bielsa, could you imagine the uproar on here if that happened mind you i would have been screaming nooo the loudest at the time, Hindsight aye. On the upside of that we wouldn't be in the situation we are in now.
Yep lets face it a few weeks ago we were looking at those two fixtures, and i think we could all agree, even the ones who havn't taken to Sam, that it was no points and two big tonkings.
Leif Davis has helped Ipswich reach promotion to the Championship. Prior to this, he helped Bournemouth reach the Prem. Davis created 132 chances for a team that finished the season with 101 goals, the highest in England’s top four divisions. He has 14 assists
.....yet failed everytime he stepped in to the first team. He lost out to a slow, ponderous centre half in Struijk at the beginning of the season when Firpo was injured. Davis wasn't ready for this league. To be fair, Struijk and Firpo have failed massively too. A left back was a priority 3 seasons ago and still is today. Shocking.
Leicester game tonight huge. If they lose there’s a real chance one win could keep us up on gd. Cmon Liverpool. Never thought I’d ever say that
