Absolutely - dont panic Mr Mannering. There's a good team there - just unlucky/stupid at the moment.
We absolutely dominated the first half, played some of the best pass and move football since the early days of the O'Dreary team and apart from some wastefulness from McCormack could have been more than one up. Game was changed by some naivety by Aiden White who got outmuscled by someone a foot taller than him and red card was inevitable once linesman had given the foul. We probably dropped off a bit too much - but even then Ipsh*t didnt look that much like scoring til a solo effort from Scotland. After the equaliser we again looked the better team and had 2 good chances, Gradel deciding to fallover rather than shoot and Keogh taking the wrong option with an overlap on. The winner was a horrible deflected fluke. This is nothing to do with Bates. It's about the 11 on the pitch and though i'm not convinced by the defence yet, the midfield 4 are top class. We'll be top half, probably play-offs again Matt --- On Sat, 27/8/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LU] & Ipswich To: "leedslist" <[email protected]>, "N If" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 27 August, 2011, 21:42 Sickening watching. As you say, we totally dominated the first half and Ipswich looked woeful. As far as I could see of the sending off (from right up in the corner at the opposite end of the ground) the Ipswich player pushed White over and then fell over his body, so definately not a deliberate foul, but I'll have to see it again on the Football League show. Straight away Grayson sent O'Brien on for Mc.Cormack, while O'Dowd went to left back and Keogh was left as the lone striker, so we lost the formation that has served us so well in the last couple of games. We tried to fall back on defence for the rest of the game, with inevitable results, though the second goal was a flukey deflection that sent the ball looping over Lonergan into the net. We still could have snatched something if we'd made better use of our breakaways towards the end. Gradel fell over in a vain attempt to win a penalty, and right at the death sent over an awful cross rather than pulling it back to an unmarked Nunez, which led to the two of them squaring up to each other just after the final whistle. A very frustrating day all round. Tim W. --- On Sat, 27/8/11, N If <[email protected]> wrote: _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it)
