Crikey, another football topic.
23rd March we have a free weekend to fit an England friendly in, ffs, we are forced to lake 3 games this week, risking injury / burnout, then we have a free weekend for a friendly !!
Does this make any sense !!
Why not cram it into midweek, they complain of too many fixtures yet except this s**t.
I wonder how many will pull out of said fixture ?
Leeds United v Stoke City
5th March@19:45pm | Elland Road
Daniel Farke will be looking for an instant response from his players when Stoke City arrive at Elland Road on Tuesday evening.
The Whites were held to a 1-1 draw by lowly Huddersfield Town at the weekend, surrendering the coveted second placed automatic promotion slot back to Ipswich Town.
The Potters have problems of their own. With less than a quarter of the season left, they sit in the relegation zone (22nd) by... Читать дальше...
How poor are we at both ends from set pieces !!
Once again yesterday was the unravelling of us from a set piece, same as game before.
Also at t'other end, we are piss poor.
Do we have a set piece coach, and if so, what's the point !!
We desperately need to be much better at both ends, the run in is on and we don't want to be bombared and buckling under pressure, also we could do with taking that pressure off by scoring from our own set pieces.
The PL will slaughter us in those game plays.
Table up later.
Clearly written before today's draw with Huddersfield and Ipswich's win over Plymouth, but still not a bad read from Opta's Jonny Cooper (there are lots of pretty graphics too ):
https://theanalyst.com/eu/2024/03/leeds ... promotion/
For anyone interested, the main sections include:
An Unprecedented Championship Season
Farke Factor
The Perfect Pairing
Bamford’s Return to Form
Defensive Solidarity
A New Midfield Pairing
Trust in Youth
Marching On to the Premier League?
Huddersfield v Leeds United 2nd March 2024 at the John Smith’s Stadium
Today was a near game for me so I drove instead of going to Leeds to catch the coach. There again, no doubt I’d have got back to Leeds and driven home by the time I got out of the car park. I’ve no idea what was stopping things as they were letting traffic out when people were walking down the street after the game whereas nothing moved for nearly an hour after I reached my car. As for the game itself, it was always going to be a tough one. Читать дальше...