Agree Nick - fine margins, and quite a gulf in class, especially as you mention when our defence comes up against an attack like that.
Just got to be philosophical about it - another 10 minutes and I think they might have got to 6 :-( One thing I liked last night was Harrison outsprinting Vardy (once) - possibly the only positive from him last night - maybe a bit harsh to be fair. I think it highlighted that Roberts maybe isn’t Premier League ready - just watch him bag a couple next time he plays. The way he plays and passes doesn’t fit in though. Sent from my iPad > On 3 Nov 2020, at 08:25, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, it was going to happen…just need a couple of wrong bounces one way and > what looks like a walloping happens. Things I took from last night: > you are much more likely to be punished for mistakes at this level > Vardy and co terrorised our defence - I really do worry about Cooper (and > about Dallas as a defender) > Bamford’s header, looked easy, but there was no pace on the ball and he was > standing, rather than moving on to it…he couldn’t generate any power from > there. > the problems were coming all game straight through where Phillips sits - > Klich is not Phillips, it is not his natural game - but it also made me see > that Klich had to resort to the same kind of passing as Philips does in > there, just by the nature of the role and the position they often get the > ball in > …and making Klich sit in there, means that his natural tendency to drive > forward is either lost…or if he goes, then someone needs to drop in and cover > Shackleton was, unfortunately invisible > If Pablo’s shot had been a couple of inches lower…these are the margins > speaking of which, swapping him for Tyler was where we lost our forward > momentum and guile > it would have been very different if we had had Rodrigo in there > …it was a penalty, a tired challenge on the line > Ah well... > > Nick > > >> On 2 Nov 2020, at 22:29, John Lee via Leedslist <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> OK, so first off I’ll say I expected nil points from this one. After 10 >> minutes I ‘predicted’ it could be 6-1, or more? So, given that, we maybe >> over-achieved? Right at the start of the season I feared what the likes of >> Vardy could do, and he did it. >> >> There were periods we held our own and perhaps could have sneaked back into >> it. If Bamford had scored that header, and it was a crap miss, we may have >> come out of it with a better result, but who knows? >> >> Another lesson for us about the quality of some clubs. Of course it didn’t >> help when we played some astonishingly poor passes - ok, Koch was unlucky as >> he wasn’t up to speed, but Harrison, Ayling, Meslier, Hernandez, f*cking >> Klich - all played shockers which put us in immediate trouble. And as for >> corners, well clearly Philips doesn’t have the monopoly on shitness of >> delivery. I don’t really get why rather than cross the ball at corners, we >> play all manner of intricate passes which end up in one of two scenarios - >> going backwards with no cross at all, or a cross banged in from an >> infinitely more difficult position/angle, with our ‘attackers’ all on the >> retreat. >> >> One thing Bielsa did which really weakened us was taking Hernandez off for >> Roberts - occasionally Roberts looks ok, but I’m not sure what he offers us >> now, or whether he’s up to it? >> >> Finally, Klich - he made some horrendous passes tonight, a stupid tackle for >> the penalty, but what the hell was he doing casually blindly back-heading a >> ball back into our defence? Neither he nor Shackleton seemed to offer much >> in protecting the defence either? >> >> Maybe seeing us in mid table will bring some realism? Disappointing, but not >> the end of the world. >> >> MOT >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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... _______________________________________________ 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...
