. Left pub at the very last minute so did not see the protest.What I did see was plenty of empty seats, even among the season ticket holders near me and that tells its own story. Anyway on to the match which I assume those who care enough to read this will have seen on TV.Not sure what to say about this one. I walked out having given the team great cheers and applause at the end, but, that was mainly for the last 10 minutes when we really went for it. The previous 80mins was almost business as usual, we had most of the possession and most of the territorial advantage but never really looked like scoring and we were always worried they would hit us on the break and get a goal. They were not brilliant but the general impression all game was that they were better than us and that if they scored one they would beat us 3 or 4 nil. The first half was not great but not awful either with our only two chances / attempts being an excellent turn and shot by Doukara and then an almost own goal from a goal mouth scramble. AT our end Silvestri was the typical Silvestri - two good saves, flapping at a cross that ended with Bellusci (?) clearing off the line and some awful kicking. They did have the ball in the net when a cross was headed in but the whistle had already gone as the ball went out before the cross ( a text message suggested the decision was wrong) So 0-0 at half time and a decent response from the crowd rather than the booing off of some recent games. Their was a bit of anti Cellino stuff but nothing of any note.The second half was similar with them missing a couple of chances on the break and Silvestri pulling off another good save. We actually had two attempts on target - the most in any home game for a while -both from Doukara, one a great header but both were very well saved. We brought on Erwin but he just showed why he has not been being picked, and Mowatt was also brought on and looked quite lively. Then with ten minutes to go we suddenly came alive and played like Evans has promised we always would, that is, really going for it. We really battered them in that period, helped by their defender getting an obvious yellow card for a trip which was his second. So when the final whistle went we were totally on top of the game roared on by the crowd and we all left the ground thinking why can't we do this more often.It was not all great, Wootton who did OK defensively constantly showed why he should not be a right back, time after time he was in space but stopped and turned back killing the momentum. Cooper showed that with the ball at his feet he is a League one defender, Antenucci (one of my favourites) played like he really did not want to be at Leeds, Cook still refuses to shoot, and Doukara whislt he did quite well and had our 3 best attempts on goal does not pun ch his weight and is too easily bossed. That is a bit nit picking when over the 90minutes we matched and more, the supposed second best team in the Division and could have got all 3 points. Again though we were left wondering why we play so much better against good teams than bad, and why we do not have more penetration.I found out at the game that we are back there next Tuesday v Fulham, so cue a goal or two by McCormack and us going back into our shell against a lower team Dave _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected]
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