"Koch - 8. What a player. He's making us forget Ben White pretty quickly."
Indeed..........after his embarrassing impersonation of someone learning to swim whilst Rashford danced around him last week, I noticed Ben White just flopped to the floor instead of challenging Lewin for Everton's first goal yesterday. On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 2:14 PM Richard Walker via Leedslist < [email protected]> wrote: > What a game ! First 20 minutes we hardly had a kick and I thought there's > a chance we could be embarrassed. Dallas was struggling defending at left > back (he isn't) and Ayling was having a nightmare against the lively > Sterling. I did however reassure myself with the fact that City had done > exactly the same to Leicester last week and then collapsed and as it turned > out they did exactly the same. > We really struggled to get out of our half with Philips totally swamped in > midfield. I don't put all the blame on Philips here. Yes he's pedestrian > and it was predcitable to see him outpaced and outfought by De Bruyne and > co but he was on his own. Roberts and Klich did little to help him. Klich's > running and flicks are impressive but when we're undeer the kosh like that > I'd like to see him come deep and help Philips. He didn't. Sterling's goal > was inevitable but a better clearance from Cooper would have ended the > attack. > We did so show some signs that we could match them towards the end of the > half with Dallas's chance (pen if he'd gone down) and Ayling creating then > missing our best chance. > Second half was a different story and in a 2 year of highs under Bielsa > I'd put this right up there. Rodrigo and Poveda came on and made a > difference. Rodrigo looks a class above and totally different to the player > we saw in those early games. Bielsa has got him up to speed fast. I > criticised Bielsa for starting with Roberts over Rodrigo but as always > Bielsa was right. He knew we'd be chasing the ball for most of the first > half and that would be wasted energy for Rod. > Every Leeds player stepped up. Ayling stuck to his task and as always gave > a really good, committed performance. Dallas also stuck to his task and > started to come forward. Poveda scared them to death and Philips grew into > the game. It was a great team effort and we deserved the goal after Rodrigo > had gone close seconds earlier. > Yes the last 10 minutes were hard but we continued to break when we could > and I wasn't nervous at all to be honest. There was some desperate > defending from us at the death and it was a big call to throw young Davis > on and it nearly backfired (Very Good Davis). > We deserved a point and it's another step to proving that we can live in > this league. Are City the team of previous seasons ? Possibly not without a > striker but they're still pretty good. > Miesler -7. Didn't have a lot to do really when you think about it. He > struggled a bit with distribution first half. > Ayling - 7. Torrid first 20 minutes but he came back well. > Dallas - 7 - Ditto > Koch - 8. What a player. He's making us forget Ben White pretty quickly. > Some great blocks. > Cooper - 7. Apart from that mistake for the goal he did well and defended > strongly on many occassions. > Philips - 6. Poor first half but he grew into the game and was winning > tackles second half. > Costa - 7. Worked hard , ran back. Not much end product though. > Klich - 7. Always running, always trying but was absent for long periods > in the first half. > Allioski - 5. Didn't do himself any favours. > Bamford - 7. Had a one on one which I think was offside but didn't ever > look like scoring. Worked hard. > Roberts - 5. He's not a no 10. > Subs: > Poveda - 8. Live wire. I really like the look of this lad. > Rodrigo - 8. Changed the game. > Davis - 5. Very good Davis. > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ > > Dorigo's Right Buttock... _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ Dorigo's Right Buttock...
