Match Thread EPL Leeds (H) Thurs 1st January 17:30

[Modo]

Or corner...before Chiesa comes on...

 

[darkstarexodus]

We are doing some very safety first things. We should be winning based on our chances and are willing to risk drawing for more safety. I'm tired of saying that this is the obvious way forward given how broken we were. We may of course lose though.

If we get the goal and hang on, I'm 100% fine with it. But no question it's been dull and uninspiring so far.

And subbing Gakpo and Kerkez on together makes no sense.

 

[Farkmaster]

I may be being unfair, but I feel like they play with fear and apprehension, and that, in my opinion, comes from the manager. There's no emotion, urgency or bravery, and you could see parallels in Slot.

Any team that has been completely exposed as we have, and is so at risk, even against a team that creates nothing, will play like that. It's reasonable to be afraid. It will take some time to get rid of that feeling and it does take going back to basics.

 

[darkstarexodus]

COME ON THE CHEEZY

 

[FreshRed]

Bradders

Nice call.

 

[Farkmaster]

My big thought, beyond questions of psychology and everything else is that we just fade at the end of games. That's a fitness thing, surely.

 

[Shadey]

Wow close

 

[BishBashBosh]

My god we are boring to watch at this moment in time…

 

[Halmeister]

Any team that has been completely exposed as we have, and is so at risk, even against a team that creates nothing, will play like that. It's reasonable to be afraid. It will take some time to get rid of that feeling and it does take going back to basics.

It's understandable, yeah. But to borrow the overused cliché, fortune favours the brave. We lost points against this very same opposition and Sunderland due to this mentality of dropping off and inviting teams onto us.

Very nearly punished for it there. And you can see it coming.

 

[darkstarexodus]

Saved by the flag from a classic Liverpool moment.

 

[FreshRed]

Lucky!

 

[Halmeister]

My big thought, beyond questions of psychology and everything else is that we just fade at the end of games. That's a fitness thing, surely.

And this, yeah.

We also start each half slowly. That points to a man-management/motivation issue.

 

[Farkmaster]

I don't think we are dropping off though, I think they are being more competitive and they look fresher at the end of the game.

 

[Shadey]

Anyone jumping back on the Slot Out bandwagon?

 

[binomial]

Anyone jumping back on the Slot Out bandwagon?

We were never off it.

Despise the fucking cunt

 

[Shadey]

Rio for the winner

 

[darkstarexodus]

Rio?!?! Who sacked Slot in the 70th minute?

 

[Halmeister]

I don't think we are dropping off though, I think they are being more competitive and they look fresher at the end of the game.

Both can be true. You can see the panic at the back as the game goes on because we don't have the bravery to kill teams off. The lack of fitness doesn't help matters.

 

[refugee]

Can't wait to see which attacking coach we scapegoat for this.

 

[Farkmaster]

I'm watching an atrocious team that hit rock bottom try to get out of it. I'm not expecting great football or even good football.

 

[keniget]

This is crap.

 

[FreshRed]

Rio?!?! Who sacked Slot in the 70th minute?

Except it means Chiesa in midfield which does not work.

 

[darkstarexodus]

Nice to see the homage to the 1920s with the return of the 2-3-5 formation.

 

[binomial]

Fuck off Slot you shithead

 

[Farkmaster]

I don't understand why he makes subs like this. I think we are more likely to lose all structure than get a goal.

 

[Fabio]

Anyone jumping back on the Slot Out bandwagon?

I've never left it

 

[darkstarexodus]

No width out there anymore. The centre is so congested, there's no way through.

 

[darkstarexodus]

I don't understand why he makes subs like this. I think we are more likely to lose all structure than get a goal.

It worked once early in the season and I thought he was bold for going for the win.

But it's increasingly clear it's a desperation tactic in lieu of actually having a clue.

 

[Halmeister]

We all know what's going to happen here

 

[darkstarexodus]

We all know what's going to happen here

The only surprise is that it hasn't happened yet.