Agreed Dave - that felt much more like last season than what we have seen this
season so far.
A word for Forshaw - how pleasing was that after all those injuries / setbacks?
He had a good solid game…basically taking a lot of the weight off KP, and
allowing him a bit more time to be forward looking.
Raph is simply unplayable at times. I thought Rodrigo had one of his strongest
/ most influential games for us, without ever really looking like scoring - but
he was trying some good link-up play with Raph. James and Harrison were a bit
strange yesterday, both at times dynamic and threatening - James in particular
carries the ball directly at defences - but then both seemed to lose track of
the ball or their teammates, just at the vital moment, and the chance went
begging.
Struijk did some quality overlapping / galloping up the left, but almost no one
passed to him.
Llorente had a horrendous opening 10 minutes but thereafter was pretty much in
charge at the back.
Their goal - the long ball looped over Dallas, who shaped as if to kick it, but
seemed to pull out when he saw another attacker, who he might conceivably have
been done for dangerous play on, out of the corner of his eye, so he stopped.
Was a real bugger.
Looked like we should have had a penalty later on, but thank god for VAR
because they deserved nothing, certainly not all 3 points, from that.
Enjoyed it. Slow and steady recovery from a wobbly start to the season.
Nick
> On 8 Nov 2021, at 10:37, nattan--- via Leedslist wrote:
>
> " United are back, United are back" - well not quite but that was by far the
> best performance I have seen this season ( missed watford game)We had the
> real intensity and running of proper Bielsaball, despite some round pegs in
> square holes to quote my mate - Struik at left back and Jamres centre forward
> ( sort of)
> Dallas and Harrison seemed to have their oomph back albeit Harrison needs a
> goal - had the miss of the game when he kneed it over from 2 yards , a shot
> from the edge of the area well saved and another blasted wide. Forshaw,
> someone i was not overly impressed with pre injury proved everyone wrong with
> his mom performance, he did what he was supposed to do and what we have
> lacked this season- winning the ball and keeping it moving, the simple basic
> stuff
>
> The game started at a frenetic pace, real Bielsa type football, and was a
> bit end to end with us ( llorente?) giving them an ear,y chance. The crowd
> was well up for it, continuing where we left off at the wolves game, a waccoe
> that involved all parts of the ground being especially noisy.
> We had a measure of control as we poured forward and even looked dangerous at
> a few corners, Kalvin having one chance well saved by " your dad's a cu@t and
> so are you" , and we got the goal we deserved when a low hard free kick by
> Raph flew into the bottom corner.
> We went wild and celebrated for a while, unfortunately so did the players as
> Leicester scored 10 seconds after the re- start . A long ball went over
> Dallas to Barnes who curled a cracking shot into the net as Llorente tried to
> close him down. Totally stunned the crowd into silence for a bit.
> The rest of the first half and all the second half followed the same pattern,
> us pressing and failing to find the killer shot, I can see why fans complain
> at James lack of end product. Dallas, Harrison, Rodrigo and Raph all had
> attempts/ half chances and James blasted our best chance 10yds over. They
> tried to hit us in the break and had some help from Cooper, who went from
> Super Duper Liam Cooper first half with some good blocks, tackles and passes
> to League One Liam second half with 3 awful gaffes, one in particular when he
> let the ball roll under his foot almost cost us a goal but Mes came off his
> line quickly to smother it
> VAR came to our rescue-a sentence I never thought I would write- when they
> scored from a Cooper conceded corner but was ruled offside.VAR did not help
> us later on when their defender touched it with both hands in the box
> A good fun game all round, where once again our lack of finishing prevented
> us from getting all 3 points but lots more positives than negatives as we go
> up to 15th? and those round us sack their managers, ha ha Dean Smith. We
> looked like the team of last few seasons and with a fully firing Bamford we
> would have won that.
> 2pm on a Sunday is not a great time with my trains all to put and taking 50 %
> longer but it did allow for a few beers both more and post game, so not all
> bad. Would have had one at ht but the organisation at Leeds is still bad and
> by the time we got near the front of the queue in the fanzone it was time to
> go back in, get it sorted Leeds.
> Roll on Spurs, let's bury that London hoodoo
> Dave
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