729 combinations! It’s 3 to the power 6!I think we struggled with their
high press, especially without Phillips in the team.Fortunately we held out!
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 9:45 AM +0100, "Robert Heath" <[email protected]>
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Anybody who thinks that Shackleton could be an effective replacement for
Phillips has simply not been watching over the last two years.
Yesterday's game showed perfectly (and worryingly) just how critical Phillips
is to Bielsa's system. Shackleton is a busy little lad who tears about the
pitch with great energy, but when he gets the ball all he is capable of is a
simple 10 yard pass to a player directly in front of him.
It is an indication of how important that position is that Bielsa feels
prepared to move our best defender there if Phillips is out. Yesterday, he
panicked b/c the defence just couldn't cope without White, so he tried Dallas
and then, in an incredible roll of the dice, a 20-yr-old who had cost us 2
points (how we wish we had those points now!) the only other time he played.
But Struijk did really well.
I wonder if he will keep him in there for the Derby game.
I don't usually pay any attention to the moronic Sky commentators, but I have
to say they called Barnsley perfectly yesterday. I was expecting a Luton/Stoke
style sitting back, timewasting, breaking-up-play affair........who knew they
are a vibrant pressing attacking team who just (thankfully) can't finish? Don't
know about Bar-nsley..........they were more like Bar-celona!
Apparently. there are 728 possible permutations of the results of these last 6
games (2 for us, 2 for BF, 2 for WB), and of those, 727 will give us promotion.
I'm still very worried though.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:26 PM Richard Walker via Leedslist
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Defo should have played with Shack in midfield. Quit the fucking about with the
defence. I mean which sort of lunatic starts with 3 at the back with Ayling as
the central defender just because a central midfielder is not available. It’s
incredible that somebody with Bielsa’s ability could make such an obvious
mistake.
I do worry about the remaining matches as Bielsa seems to want to try
everything to compensate Phillip’s absence other than the total bleeding
obvious which is to play a midfielder in midfield.
Other things:
Pablo - disgusting. He didn’t even shake hands and encourage Shack on. That’s
not leadership.
Strujik- thought he did ok for someone playing out of position.
Harrison and Costa - both poor. Do they intentionally cross to an opposition
player ? Harrison must hit the first man 95% of the time.
Bamford - worked hard but fuck me He’s shit at. Times. I really rated Bamford
when he first came to the club but he really should have 25 goals by now.
Dallas - hes never as effective playing in midfield- strange really.
That was for me the worst performance under Bielsa but it’s good to think we
win and are now odds on for the PL. I can’t see us getting owt at Derby after
that.
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On Thursday, July 16, 2020, 8:02 pm, [email protected]
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The important bit of win ugly, is win.
We have been fantastic to watch in plenty of games this year and not
necessarily got what we deserved.
Nick
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> Barnsley didn’t have the quality to capitalise
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> 5. Aside from being caught in possession once, Struijk was a big positive,
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> 6. Major tactical error bringing Hernandez on - should have been Shackleton
> 7. We missed Phillips - we really should have played Shackleton from the start
> 8. White looked good
> 9. Bamford post-match interview - spot on - we want 6 points and to go up as
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