Mike,
while I get your drift just over a week ago we put in that second half
performance against Millwall. Hope springs eternal.
Nick
On Saturday, February 8, 2020, 03:34:18 PM EST, Michael Benjamin
<m...@myray.com> wrote:
IMO it's over
I just cannot see how we get out of this mess.
How do you fix what you have no clue what is broken? The team is a shambles,
and the players are regressing like in a time machine.
Psychologically we have blown this season.
Sad -- but probably true!
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Leedslist <leedslist-boun...@gn.apc.org> On Behalf Of Robert Heath
|Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:13 PM
|To: Mark Pilling <markpill...@gmail.com>
|Cc: leedslist <leedslist@gn.apc.org>
|Subject: Re: [LU] forest
|
|Agree with most of this.
|
|Did we play badly or did they not let us play well? Always hard to tell, but I
think they
|have to take some credit.
|
|But yeah your last sentence is key: we'll prob lose at B/ford (we always do,
even with
|Kalvin back) and then Brizzle will be a hard home game, but after that we will
have
|played all the top 7 twice (except Fulham who still have to come to ER). We
COULD go
|on another winning run. But only if the players can keep their confidence and
belief.
|
|On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 8:47 PM Mark Pilling <markpill...@gmail.com> wrote:
|
|> Only the second game I've seen us deserve to lose. Preston were
|> better than us, I'm afraid we deserved it ourselves today, though
|> credit to forest for holding their form and taking their chance.
|>
|> The big problem as we all know is our poor ability to score. Today,
|> as often, we are so unthreatening in their box. I accept that
|> breakaways will mean opposition have a much better liklihood to score
|> which is countered by the number of chances we create by being on the
|> front foot and creating so many more chances. And that's OK with me.
|> I'd rather watch Leeds than Forest - or anyone. (OK I'd always rather
|> watch Leeds but you get my meaning). It's why I love Bielsa and dream
|> that he stays....what/who could ever be better?
|>
|> But....on corners against us, we are so under pressure, but while we
|> pummel their crowded box, corners, crosses, through balls, cut
|> backs...it almost never looks like we're going to score. Today for
|> prime example, we had Cooper's header and what? a couple that fizzed past
everyone.
|>
|> Anyway, hopefully we can calm down and find our belief, we have still
|> been good enough to be 2nd. We play the best football of the League,
|> we create enough to compensate for our poor xG. We can still do it.
|>
|> For me today
|>
|> 4. Casilla. I'd probably drop him. Teach him to be muscular in his
|> box without a Sergio Ramos to protect him. I do rate him as a shot
|> stopper and superb distributer. BUT
|>
|> 4 Alioski. Love him. But today it wasn't happening and then he lost
|> his head.
|>
|> 6. Ayling been disappointed with him lately but today, he looked
|> better as CB than he has at RB....and at end of game, when everyone
|> else was frantic he at least kept cool and tried to play the game they know
and trust.
|> dragged him up from a 5.
|>
|> 6. Cooper. One I think didn't do much wrong, and so nearly scored.
|> But no real reason to go beyond 6.
|>
|> 6. White. Same. Not much wrong, not much to rave about.
|>
|> 5. Dallas. Generous? I'd have subbed him at HT for Shacks. We were
|> offering nothing in MF.
|>
|> 5. Sad to give this to Pablo. Tried. But it didn't work.
|>
|> 6. Klich. Probably my motm. even though he didn't really do much.
|>
|> 5. Costa. Still doesn't offer anything substantial. Passenger.
|>
|> 6. Harrison. Worked hard. tried. only other motm opition. good touch
|> and presence. no final ball.
|>
|> - Bamford. Hard to judge. No service. no contribution.
|>
|> 5 Roberts. Didn't provide anything.
|>
|> - Kev no idea.
|>
|> - Shack disappointed with his few touches, but too late to expect anything.
|>
|> 7 Ref. Thought he had a decent game.
|>
|> Nowhere near the end. If we play like we can (and score) we can still
|> run away with the league - whatever the result against Brentford even.
|> Just hope the players continue to believe.
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