Leeds United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2020/2021

championc

The one thing about international players is they certainly don't get a break at all. International breaks are now sometimes even 3 games

Seathrun66

Deleted User wrote: »

Think Philips suspended for a couple of league games now, so he has a rest coming up anyway.

Would give Klich, Ayling, Dallas and Harrison, and maybe Bamford, a break anyway, a chance to see some of the players brought in last summer, a couple were English under 21s afair,

Just the Brighton game I think, but unsure. I think the PL schedule alongside the international games has made his performances more erratic.

Greenwood, Drameh & Gelhardt look very impressive.

is_that_so

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Just the Brighton game I think, but unsure. I think the PL schedule alongside the international games has made his performances more erratic.

Greenwood, Drameh & Gelhardt look very impressive.

The injury didn't help either and he hasn't looked as sharp since coming back from it.

adaminho

https://twitter.com/LUFC/status/1348245822627065857

is_that_so

Nice to see some kids in there!

stryker mcqueen

Looking forward to seeing Greenwood

event

Disgusted to see Casilla playing

event

event wrote: »

Disgusted to see Casilla playing

It's shocking. I just don't understand it. Surely some club in Spain might have taken him on and paid some part of his wages. It's a real blot on the copybook of Radrizani, Bielsa and all at the club.

event

Pay up his contract, tell him to p1ss off

Looking at the bench, not a load there to bring on

GoldFour4

Be good to get a goal here before halftime. Poveda looking handy

Ceist_Beag

Presumably Struijk is midfield and Phillips is CB as Bielsa doesn't want three left footers as his CBs but it's not really working, Struijk is having no impact in midfield. Poveda and Pablo look like our best chance of a goal at the minute.

purple hands

Ceist_Beag wrote: »

Presumably Struijk is midfield and Phillips is CB as Bielsa doesn't want three left footers as his CBs but it's not really working, Struijk is having no impact in midfield. Poveda and Pablo look like our best chance of a goal at the minute.

Pascal is just not mobile and/or positionally aware enough for DM, but needs practice there.

Classic post-2000's (ish) dodgy third-round performance here

10000maniacs

Huggins is a great player from what I have seen this season in the U23's. Give him a start.

10000maniacs

1:0 Crawley. Doh.

Zaph

Here we go again.

purple hands

There it is

10000maniacs

Not as bad as Histon in 2008 but pretty bad.

Damo 2k9

Casilla shocking for both of them goals, Jesus christ

10000maniacs

2:0 Kiko should have got that.

Zaph

We can't even bring Greenwood on now. Ffs

Forget that, 5 subs. Get him on now.

purple hands

Kiko being very very Kiko

event

Ceist_Beag wrote: »

Presumably Struijk is midfield and Phillips is CB as Bielsa doesn't want three left footers as his CBs but it's not really working, Struijk is having no impact in midfield. Poveda and Pablo look like our best chance of a goal at the minute.

I assume he was in midfield so that he could get used to it ahead of Brighton. He's not good enough though.

So looks like we'll be gone again. Not too bothered, cups never interested me much

10000maniacs

Matches like this confirm that when we get drubbed by the likes of Man U and Spurs, it's all down to us in defence.
If Crawley can do it, kind of proves you don't need a lot of quality to break the Leeds defence.

Mushy

At least it should be the last game of Casilla anyway, always that positive to take

Mushy

Mushy wrote: »

At least it should be the last game of Casilla anyway, always that positive to take

Could be some legacy.

35k a week, banned for racist comments, plays in League Cup exit v Hull, plays in probable FA Cup exit v Crawley Town...

Seathrun66

event wrote: »

I assume he was in midfield so that he could get used to it ahead of Brighton. He's not good enough though.

So looks like we'll be gone again. Not too bothered, cups never interested me much

Was delighted to be out of the League Cup. But not today, and not in these circumstances. This a competition worth winning and Leeds are potential winners/finalists if we can get through this.

Edit - we're not getting through this.

10000maniacs

3:0 Pathetic

Zaph

event wrote: »

So looks like we'll be gone again. Not too bothered, cups never interested me much

A cup run would be nice every now and then, but if we're not going to win it I don't mind not going too far in it. But it's the regularity that we get humiliated by lower league teams that really depresses me. And this is as humiliating as it gets.

stryker mcqueen

They should bring your man from TOWIE on now.... This is embarrassing

purple hands

This will put a downer on rest of season, just like before

10000maniacs

event wrote: »

So looks like we'll be gone again. Not too bothered, cups never interested me much

That's because it's 10 years since we had any half decent run.

Mushy

purple hands wrote: »

This will put a downer on rest of season, just like before

It really won't if they stay up

10000maniacs

At least we will be the top sports news story of the day. We are the top story any time we play in the FA cup. :pac:

Zaph

That should have been 4-0

GoldFour4

I don’t think we could pay someone to take Kiko off us. Jesus this is ridiculous.

They could take something from the trip if they all race on to the bus before Casilla, close the door, and tell him to stay in Crawley or f*** off back to Spain, no one cares.

event

Every year people think its nice to go on a cup run. Maybe if down the divisions and you're never gonna be in the mix for promotion. But now we are back in the PL, we'll be playing thr big teams anyway.

And ever year people think their team could win it.

Arsenal, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man u, Arsenal, Arsenal, Wigan, Chelsea, City.

Bar Wigan, who got relegated dont forget, a big team always wins it really

event

What it does show, is that some of the younger players will take a while to get up to speed.

10000maniacs

We have this knack of making teams like Crawley look like Man U.

purple hands

Make them all walk home

event

purple hands wrote: »

This will put a downer on rest of season, just like before

What??

So if we finished in 14h or so, our first year back in the PL in 16 years. Become media darlings, everyone loves us for once. Bit you think getting knocked out of a cupbthst one of the big 6 will win anyway will put a downer on it?

Some people are hard to please

purple hands

event wrote: »

What??

So if we finished in 14h or so, our first year back in the PL in 16 years. Become media darlings, everyone loves us for once. Bit you think getting knocked out of a cupbthst one of the big 6 will win anyway will put a downer on it?

Some people are hard to please

Comment was poorly phrased, I meant a downer on performances. Always seems to be a bit of a hangover from these results.

Ceist_Beag

After watching the first half I missed the first 25 minutes of the second. What happened us? Was it the changes at half time? As others said I'm not overly concerned with the FA cup but we've had more than enough embarrassing cup exits and this is up there with the worst.

Seathrun66

event wrote: »

Every year people think its nice to go on a cup run. Maybe if down the divisions and you're never gonna be in the mix for promotion. But now we are back in the PL, we'll be playing thr big teams anyway.

And ever year people think their team could win it.

Arsenal, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man u, Arsenal, Arsenal, Wigan, Chelsea, City.

Bar Wigan, who got relegated dont forget, a big team always wins it really

Losing finalist pretty much guarantees a Europa League place. Five wins and you have continental football. Would have been worth it for Leeds.

purple hands

Pathetic performance. Well done Crawley

Mushy

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Losing finalist pretty much guarantees a Europa League place. Five wins and you have continental football. Would have been worth it for Leeds.

More likely to come 6th or 7th to get European football. Today really doesnt matter a jot in the seasons goals

GoldFour4

Curious as to what the impact on transfers that game will have.

The young lads are clearly a bit further away than it had seemed.

event

event wrote: »

What it does show, is that some of the younger players will take a while to get up to speed.

And just how good Bamford is, and how big the gap is between that forward combination of him, Harrison and Raphinha, and any other permutation or combination.

Eggs For Dinner

3 subs at HT, Harrison as CF, Kiko being Kiko, Kalvin and Struijk should have switched early on. Bielsa has to shoulder the blame and, in fairness, he probably will

Carcharodon

Just woke up, insane hangover, wtf happened ??!!!