Just realised that as I watched the highlights via Walmot 3 on twitter !!
To be fair the whole report was written in the early hours and I was not at my
best - Antonsson was a lot closer the goal line when he "smashed it in" - but
hard to get perspective when the ball is at the other end (which should have
been the clue that it was in the first half!)Having said that I was still
buzzing as I watched the highlights at 7.30am !
Great night and lets hope it brings some of the missing fans back and some new
ones too
Dave
From: Brendan Osborne <[email protected]>
To: Leeds List <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2016, 7:17
Subject: Re: [LU] Norwich
#yiv3267963844 #yiv3267963844 -- P
{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv3267963844 Thanks for a great report - just
one crow to pluck with you. It was 1-1 at half time - we equalised in the 43rd
minute.
Ossie
From: Leedslist <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected]
<[email protected]>
Sent: 25 October 2016 23:49
To: Leeds List
Subject: [LU] Norwich Wow - this is what football is all about, not the
greatest game but when Vierra scored with that penalty - amazingThe fact that I
had to pay £18 in a taxi home to more than offset the saving on the cheap
ticket - who cares ?fact that i had to share my train with both Craggy AND dick
with a stick* - who cares, even their nonsense could not wipe the smile off my
face"We're Leeds and we're proud of it", we all sang as the final whistle after
extra time sounded, and we meant it - this was a team and performance to be
proud ofThe ticket queues outside the ground showed how good an idea the cheap
tickets were, and all the open stands were full (fair play to Norwich who sold
2k for this game - a great turn out)I was disappointed as i worked out the team
and realised that only Bartley was a genuine first teamer, with Roofe and
Vieira both playing recently due to injury and for much of the first half, we
looked to be a second string team, hastily thrown together (when will managers
realise Mowatt is NOT a winger and certainly not a RIGHT sided one ?) as
Norwich took the game to us and threatened to run away with it, some desperate
defending and some good saves from Silvestri saving us from a hammering. Their
goal when it came was well worked and well deserved as they tore us apart and
slotted homeWe did think we had equalised but Bartley was booked for 'scoring'
with his handSo 0 1 at half time and a thrashing on the cards.
Second half we upped the tempo and got some fluidity going and got a real
foothold in the game. It was no surprise when we equalised Doukara doing well
and pulling the ball back to Antonsson who smashed home.We could and should
have won it but Mowatt could not get the right touch that would have put it
into an empty net, doukara also had a great header well saved. We put on Sakho
who caused them all sorts of problems and Wood who had a stormer.Unfortunately
we also brought on Philips which meant we had used all 3 subs so when Coyle
could not come out for extra time we were down to ten men! (The FA cup is
allowing 4 subs in this situation?)Our bottle had gone and we approached extra
time down to ten with the sole purpose of hanging on for pens, but this went
wrong as they beat our defence and headed home (looked offside from my seat and
Silvestri got booked for arguing)At that point I was expecting 4 1 and was
trying to work out if it was worth leaving if they scored again to make sure I
could get home.But this current lot are made of sterner stuff and Sakho broke
down the left and had a shot that the keeper could only parry to the feet of
the onrushing Chris Wood who hit home ( a typical centre forward goal -
brilliant stuff) and so to pensThankfully taken at our end
They scored and so did Wood, then they missed and Roofe hit home - 2 1 with us
with one in hand but Philips had his saved and then Grimes (poor throughout)
approached his - we were still in the driving seat but as with most left
footers at pens, it just did not look right and he blasted miles over. SO
suddenly it was 2 2 and the momentum seemed to have shifted, but Silvestri
saved and it was left to Ronaldo Vieira to step up and striker the winning
penalty - pandemonium on the field and in the stands and a brilliant night came
to a close
All the irregular fans making their first (first for a while) appearance at ER
went home happy and singing into the night
Nights like this just make it all worthwhile - hoping for a good draw tomorrow
Dave* if you know them you know what i mean
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