Still it's not all doom & gloom.............Derby and Chelsea are both in
serious shit!
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 8:42 AM n...@6haroldplace.co.uk <
n...@6haroldplace.co.uk> wrote:
> Agree with that Rich - I swear if I have to watch another lofted ball from
> Koch, dropped into the box from 50 yards out, with no one in sight but
> their keeper…
>
> How bad was that? I left bang on the whistle and walked straight on to the
> first bus in the station and got a seat…no mad queues watching the first 5
> or 6 buses leave, all the folk buzzing and chattering about something
> brilliant in the game. Flat. We have forgotten what it was like before and
> become inured.
>
> A wise woman once sang ‘you don’t know what you got til it’s gone’.
>
> Nick
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 11 Mar 2022, at 08:15, Richard Walker via Leedslist <
> leedslist@gn.apc.org> wrote:
> >
> > Couldn't get to sleep last night after that performance. Yes I felt it
> was time for Bielsa to go but not to be replaced by this, which is the
> worst of Heckingbottom, Blackwell and Warnock. Marsch has a difficult job
> but when it was said that he is the ideal person to replace Bielsa because
> he plays the same pressing, attacking style nothing could be further from
> the truth.
> > He is trying to make us compact by packing the midfield and bringing the
> wingers more central. This totally negates any attacking options we have.
> We were all about fast movment from defence to attack, down the wings with
> overlapping wing backs. That's gone, Bielsa ball is dead and we're left
> with midfielders who are not midfielders on the ball not knowing what to
> do. As performances go that's the most clueless I've seen us since the
> Heckingbottom days. Ok we've suffered some bad defeats under Bielsa
> recently but in those games we kept going and still created chances. We
> didn't create anything that troubled their keeper last night. The crowd got
> on the backs of the players and when their 3rd went in a chant of Marcelo
> Bielsa echoed around the ground and then a large number of fans actually
> left. The ground was half empty by the final whistle.
> > A bloke behind me shouted "This is the sort of shit we used to see
> before Bielsa came" - he was spot on. Clueless, pedestrian with players
> playing out of position. Koch is a disaster in midfield. All the fans can
> see it but yet the coach can't. Bielsa was the same although I'd argue he
> had a specific role ('the Philips') role which is more of a sweeper
> whereas Marsch is playing Koch as a fully fledged midfielder who was
> actually playing in an advanced role at times and actually had one of our
> best chances second half. In a true central defender playing in midfield
> style he blasted into the safe seating rail section (whatever the feck that
> is !?).
> > Then we've got Ayling playing a centre back. Who told Marsch that Ayling
> was a centre back ? Yes he filled in at times under Bielsa but only when
> we've had injuries to most of our central defenders. Now we've got a German
> international defender playing in midfield and a Spanish international
> defender on the bench. Surely Ayling to right back, Koch to central defence
> and Dallas into midfield would have been the obvious ?
> > Ayling and Struijk for me would worry me in the championship but against
> Countinho and Ings we're always going to be in trouble. It could have been
> more than 3. Struijk continues to disappoint me and he was skinned badly on
> one occassion. I don't think he's premiership ... yet
> > The main problem for Marsch is that he's packing the midfield but we
> haven't got any midfielders ! He's a manager who needed to get players in
> January to meet his tactics. There's little point in asking Raph to play
> central midfield which is where he found himself.
> > My overall view is of complete depression knowing that the Bielsa years
> are over and we're back to this type of football. Maybe Marsch will get it
> right in the Summer but I just can't see him turning this team around and
> playing the tactics he wants. Bamford will help but is he fit ?
> > We need to get behind the players and manager for the Norwich game. THe
> crowd were quick to get on their backs last night and the boos at half-time
> were the loudest for many a year. There was no 2nd half rallying after the
> initial promising 10 mins and we threw in the towel.
> > It's going to be hard.
> > scores:
> > Miesler - 7. Some decent saves to keep us in it first half
> > Dallas - 4. Really struggled at right back
> > Firpo - 1. He's been a disaster. Eitehr injured or ineffective. Always
> fouling and getting booked because he doesn't know how to defend. He's
> njured now and I think that's the best for the team. We have missed
> Allioski this season. I'dtry to get him back but then again Marsch would
> probably play him in central midfield.
> > Sruijk - 3. Passsing poor, defending poor. Has been poor for a few games
> now.
> >
> > Ayling - 5. At least he put some tackles in and tried to push forward
> but he's no central defender
> > Forshaw - 4. That was his worst game for Leeds
> > Koch - 2 Awful / out of position
> > Raphinha - 6. Our best player on the night
> > Rodrigo - 0. Bloody rubbish - gave the ball away everytime he got it.
> What a disaster he has been and I really liked the look of him last season
> at times
> > Harrison - 1. Not much better than Rodrigo
> > James - 4. Lots of effort but not effective. Another player , playing
> out of position
> >
> > Subs:
> > Joffy - 5. Tried but I'm going to say this lad is not ready for the
> first team yet
> > Klich - 0 nothing
> > Bamford - 5.
> > Happy Friday All. FFS !
> >
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