Bogusz is out on loan for the season ( seems to be doing ok)Already mentioned
rule change re red card and pens , not sure how last night was ' accidental '
but everyone seemed to agree a yellow was correct
Players who commit a foul to deny a goalscoring opportunity will no longer
automatically be sent off, football's rule-making body has confirmed.
The previous 'triple-punishment' rule required a red card - and therefore a
suspension - as well as the award of a penalty under those circumstances.
However, players committing accidental fouls that deny a goalscoring chance
will now be cautioned instead.
But deliberate fouls will still incur a red card.
Those include holding, pulling or pushing, not playing the ball, serious foul
play, violent conduct or deliberate handball in order to deny a goalscoring
opportunity
On Saturday, 12 December 2020, 10:52:55 GMT, John Lee via Leedslist
<[email protected]> wrote:
I doubt my views differ much from everyone else’s? I’ve just watched the game
again, and we could have played all night and not scored. The performance
seemed slightly better second time around, but our predictability gives teams
plenty of warning on how to set up against us, and given most teams have
technically better players it’s becoming hard just to watch! The realisation
that players who are Championship level (Dallas, Alioski, Harrison, Cooper,
Klich) are out of their depth, combined with an unfortunate series of injuries,
gave us a grim reminder of what’s coming?
I hope Bielsa will start to put some faith in our young uns - Davis at left
back for one, Struijk at centre back (and above Cooper in the pecking order),
start involving Boguszc (sp?) etc. But will he? Doubtful? Then you wonder, does
Bielsa have the willingness to change tactics in a relegation battle? Doubtful
at best? I no longer subscribe to the view we have enough not to go down.
We’ve actually become boring to watch too in the last few games. Maybe we need
an injection of new supporters too ;-)
Finally, I think it was Nick who asked, but I also didn’t understand why
Fabianski wasn’t sent off - last man, goal scoring opportunity and all that?
We’ll know more after Newcastle?
> On 12 Dec 2020, at 09:42, Robert Heath <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We are suffering from a very unfortunate positional double whammy: at CB we
> have 3 players (inc 2 big money international signings) out at the same
> time.........and at LW we have 2 players whose confidence has suddenly
> taken a catastrophic crash.
>
> A lot has been written and said about Bielsa's genius in improving players
> individually, but another aspect which is less discussed is his ability to
> get players playing at the very upper limit of their ability. Obviously,
> they give 100% effort, but also they are usually playing at 100% of their
> potential (or even more sometimes!) I think a large part of his reluctance
> to change the team or drop players is a big factor here. Obviously players
> make mistakes, but those errors never seem to bother
> them...........pyschologically they are very tough.
>
> But Jackie Harrison does seem to have completely lost his confidence. That
> position is one where confidence is absolutely crucial. In the past he has
> seemed a really resilient lad who has always bounced back from every failed
> dribble or poor cross and just got on with it next time, but he finally
> seems to have cracked.
>
> And I have always had the feeling that Costa had very fragile confidence. I
> think the fact that Wolves shifted him affected him, and it took him months
> to rebuild his self-belief. I thought he notably improved once we finally
> committed to paying the money for him, and early this season he was looking
> good. But I think once Raphinha forced his way past him into the starting
> lineup, it looks like his confidence is shot again.
>
> We'll just have to hope that the old adage that class is permanent and form
> is temporary holds here. It will be interesting to see who Bielsa picks on
> that LW v Newcastle.............but whomsoe'er it may be, let's hope
> something comes off for him early on and the mojo starts to flow again.
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 9:20 AM Richard Walker via Leedslist <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 12 games in and it's been a good journey so far. The transformation from
>> average championship team to a team holding their own and winning games in
>> the PL is nothing short of a miracle. However, I think it's clear that we
>> have hit our first crisis and for me questions have to be asked. Yes, we've
>> been unfortunate with injuries but if Bielsa's 2 players for each position
>> strategy included Ayling switching to centre back then we're in trouble.
>> Our defence is in crisis and looks like conceding at every set piece. A
>> makeshift defence of Dallas, Allioski, Cooper and Ayling would have raised
>> eyebrows in the championship but at this level it's the equivalent of
>> football suicide. We have now receded back to the pre-Monk days where we
>> conceded at nearly every set piece. Monk sorted that by bringing in
>> Jansson,abandoning player for player marking in favour of telling Jansson
>> to just go and get the ball. He did, and we looked solid in defence for
>> that season. Bielsa can't move until January to sort this problem but
>> hearing him say that we don't need a centre back in January as we have
>> Ayling and Philips who can play there makes me wonder whether defence might
>> be his weak point. We need 2 new central defenders now !!!
>> Last night was a really poor, disjointed performance against a team who
>> are solid but unspectular. Our home form is really shaky and at the moment
>> we don't appear to like playing at Elland Road. Maybe the players should
>> spend more time actually practising on the pitch as someone on WhatsApp
>> suggested. We had too many attackers on the pitch. The gap between defence
>> and attack was massive and Phillips and Klich just couldn't cope with their
>> pace and strength. Klich and Harrison turned in their worst performances in
>> a Leeds shirt and it was no surprise when West Ham won the game from an
>> unneccesary set piece late on. In reality, 4 or 5-1 would have been a
>> fairer result and for that we have to thank Miesler.
>> Scores:
>> Miesler - 8. Kept the score reasonable. Maybe should have done better with
>> the goal but if Dallas let's his man have a free header from 3 yards it's
>> not going to end well.
>> Dallas - 4. His worst perfomance under Bielsa. Defensively he was all over
>> the shop and although he did charge forward a lot in the 2nd half when
>> switched to left back he was pretty ineffective.
>> Allioski - 2. When his crosses are hitting the first man and his link up
>> play with Harrison is non-existent you have to ask what does he bring to
>> the team other than a massive gap down our left which West Ham exploited ?
>> Subbed at half-time and rightly so.
>> Ayling - 6. I thought he did well under extreme pressure in the first half
>> and overall he was the better central defender but hes obviously out of his
>> comfort zone and is going to struggle in the PL in this position.
>> Cooper - 5. He did a lot of good defending and he created our goal however
>> at key moments he reverted back to league one Liam. He's struggling.
>> Klich - 5. Hardly completed a pass in the first half and all his usual
>> intelligent play was missing. 2nd half he looked like he was tired and was
>> crying out for some assistance.
>> Philips - 5. Worked hard but looked out of his depth to me. Compare to
>> Declan Rice who I thought looked strong throughout and also grew into the
>> game and started to really control the game and push forward with the ball.
>> Philips had one half-decent shot but overall he was completely outrun an
>> outplayed. To his credit he kept on battling and did some good defensive
>> work in the 2nd half. Give him the freedom of the park like he got at
>> Goodison and he can play at this level. Close him down and run at him and
>> he's out of the game. A 100% championship player.
>> Harrison - 0. I think there was one half decent cross but he looks like
>> he's totally lost his confidence. He's not linking up, beating his man,
>> putting in crosses. I think we all questioned whether he had enough at this
>> level. I think that question is being answered.
>> Raphinha - 5. Bright start and he worked his socks off but he didn't see
>> enough of the ball due to that massive gap in midfield. He shouldn't be
>> spending his time sprinting back and covering but that's what he used most
>> of his energy doing last night.
>> Rodrigo - 6. Started slowly but grew into the game and he was our one
>> player who looked likely to create something or score late on. He should
>> have done from that header. I don't see him as a No 10 though and I don't
>> think we can have the luxury of starting a game with Bamford, Rodrigo,
>> Harrison and Raphinha. Bamford looks very ineffective in games likes this
>> and when he was subbed the obvious switch for me was to push Rod up front
>> and bring on Pablo to play the no 10. Instead Bielsa brought on Roberts who
>> looks low on confidence and was totally ineffective. He's done that before
>> because in his mind he has to substitute a striker for a striker and for
>> some reason Rodrigo isn't a striker ? Very frustrating and what is going on
>> with Pablo ? Why have him on the bench if we're not going to use him when
>> chasing the game. Pablo has to come in for Newcastle.
>> Bamford - 4. Bought the pen well but apart from that he looked ineffective
>> although the service wasn't exactly there.
>> Subs:
>> Shackleton - 6. At least he had a go, showed some aggression and running.
>> Roberts - 3. Ran about a bit.
>> Costa - 0. Possibly the worst sub performance I've ever seen. Lost
>> possession, gave away the free kick for the goal and on the whole looked a
>> completely different player to the one who bagged a brace against Fulham.
>> Hard time ahead especially with the defensive situation. Scum to come as
>> well.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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