The only thing I'd disagree with is that I think Brum did offer a fair bit in
the second half and it was very worrying to see the confidence just drain away
from us to the point where they took complete control and we were reduced to
playing on the break. I think they had one or two decent players who once they
go the belief an us ragged.
I think first half we had all the possession about 80 corners but didn't create
much which is becoming a familar story.
On Sunday, 20 October 2019, 12:18:19 BST, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:
Well after my sojourn to Old Tafford for the rugby last week, very weird
singing "come on you reds" or even worse the Salford version of Anarchy in the
Uk with the line" I wanna destroy Wigan and Leeds" , albiet I did do the Leeds
salute at the Leeds line, It was back to my spiritual home of Elland Road where
I have been visiing every fortnight for 45 of its 100year history.
I gave the celebrations a miss, I prefer to remembr my idols and heroes as fit
young men (oo er missus) running down the wing, crunching into tackles etc
rather than as bald,, fat shuffling old fellows (no offence) and was more
interested in the present and would it affect todays today's performance rather
than wallowing in the past.
General Haigh, as the only non Bielsa fan in our group calls him, did what
Haigh always did and stuck with the same team and same plan (we did point out
that Haigh did win the war but his retort about how long and how many lifes
etc, kind of derailed the football talk.
We started brightly enough with a rasping shot by Alioski bringing about a
good save. Then we had 3 chances in 1 but no goal to show for it. A lovely ball
over the top fell to Bamford in the box but instead of shooting he did a lovely
back heel to Costa whose shot was blocked and came back to Dallas who played a
neat one two with Klich and then fired a shot right at the keeper, good
football but nothing to show for it. When the moans / excitement had died down
a bit a lad near me made the observation "That is why Bamford will never be a
top goal scorer , can you imagine Clarke, Chapman or Beckford passing in that
position?" and it is true the real out and out scorers have always been greedy
and a bit lazy generally. Bamford on the other hand was working so hard on and
off the ball that my mate (correctly) surmised, he is only going to play half a
game.
We contined to domnate but create few real chances and converted none. We did
look mainly secure at the back with the much maligned Berardi alongside the
immaculate White, with some help from Kiko keeping out the Birmingham long
throws and set pieces. Somewhat unbelievably we have the best defensive record
in the Division.
So half time came and all the old worries about domination with nothing to
show started to affect the crowd, would this be another home game where we
control the game but throw away the points? eddie came on at half time but did
little of real note though he did win a free kick that was given literally
inches outside the box, the referees spray touching the penatly area marking.
We lost our way a bit in the second half and nerves were starting to show when
Harrison, who had a good game, nipped in and stole the ball and then for the
3rd game in a row set up his teammate for the goal. This time it was Kalvin
whose shot was pretty much at the keeper but had enough power to go through him
and into the net. Maybe fitting that a Leeds lad got the goal in the 100th
birthday game.
They offered little in reply but we were looking a bit ragged and Bielsa went
ful General Haigh and did his now usual move of bringing on Douglas and moving
Alioski further foward to shore things up. This time thankfully it did just
about work and alioski should have perhaps created a second goal instead of
blasting high and wide from a yard out but from an impossible angle rather than
pulling it back for Eddie.. Anyway in the end despite last minute wobbles and
them missing a glorious chance when they put a free header over the bar it was
another 3 points and another clean sheet. Beating a team who did the double
over us last season
2 hard away games coming up but Pablo is almost back (30mins for under 23s on
Friday) and Costa did look decent in short spells. Lack of goals still the big
probelm but onwards and upwards for another 100 years !
Dave
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