Basic flaw today, first half primarily, was the willingness to totally support their tactics, which were to pump the ball down the channels (or rather over to the channels) and hope for a throw in or corner. Every throw they had in their half went straight down the line, and we 'won' the header to give them another within long throw distance. I say 'won' because their tactic was to get the long throws and therefore they were quite happy for us to win those headers. This is what we were taught to do at junior school. We should have let them win the fucking headers, get the ball down and try to play football. Whenever they tried they showed how shit they were.
The one thing they were more likely to be good at, and the thing I was most worried about prior to the match was set pieces, given that is obviously what they spend 99% of their "training" doing. So what do we do the first half? Give them as many long throws, corners and free kicks as humanly possible. Second half was a lot better, but we are leeds fans and I think all of us knew what was going to happen. Still, I'd rather go out in such conditions to Histon than give Swansea the chance to beat us. Now we have no distractions to the league, Macca is obviously looking to strengthen the defence so I hope that we can go on a much needed run in the league and kick on in the new year. _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist is Michel Kitabdjian dead yet?
