‘Encouraged and worried’ sounds about right to me! B
> On 5 Oct 2025, at 10:54, nattan--- via Leedslist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the one hand a very encouraging performance, on the other a very > disappointing result.To deal with the bad things first, it is starting to > look like a pattern, and even worse, a pattern that will see us relegated. > Coming from the match saying " we deserved more than we got" - already we > think we have 'thrown away / lost' a point at Fulham, 2 v Bournemouth and now > at least one v spurs. Somehow we have to make our chances count, DCL had 2 > good opportunities, one a bad miss , one a decent save, Longstaff had a shot > just wide that should have been on target, Rodon thundered a header onto the > woodwork that should have gone in, a few crosses into the box, one in > particular just needed a touch to score but 3 Leeds players failed to get > that touch. So somehow we need to convert these into goals ( I will exempt > Piroe from criticism since his chance was really well taken and really well > saved ( but on a different day could have gone in) Once again we fell below > our xg whilst our opposition did the opposite ( it was 1.6 v 0.5 I think ) > At the other end we could perhaps blame bad luck, up to a point, in that both > goals took deflections off Struik which gave Darlow no chance. It was not > however bad luck that allowed the chances in the first place it was failing > to react quickly enough to Longstaff losing the ball for the first and > Gudnundsson getting in a bad position for the second > We need to rectify these issues and quickly or we will be going down > bemoaning the fact that we don't deserve to. > > There was also lots to admire as, for the most part, we went toe to toe with > a top 6 or 7 team in a very entertaining game, that had spurs ,like loads of > second rate Champo teams resorting to time wasting, play acting , moaning at > the (incompetent) ref and just generally cheating / using gamesmanship. > Gudmundsson , one lapse apart,looked good, so much so that post match we > were trying to work out the last time we had 2 good fullbacks, some went for > Kelly/ Harte , myself further back to sterland / Dorigo. So real praise > coming their way.Calvert- Lewis again proved a real handful, Longstaff put in > another real shift as they say, and Amps held it all together, Okafor did > enough to impress me ( but not my mate) so lots to be happy about > Nmecha looks poor ( god knows how he got Germany caps) and Aaronson continues > to do what he does,at least 3 times I shouted " well done Brendy" only to > finish the sentence with " oh no "as he fought and won the ball only to then > lose it or misplace the pass - his saved shot did get us our goal > One last thing the shot from Piroe came from a great knock down by DCL so we > mused whether at some stage in the season or in a particular game we shoukd > go back to the old big man / little man , target / poacher with DCL and Piroe > ( our best finisher) being the new Jones / Clarke or Chapman / Wallace > Going forward we need to win our next 2 games really. Looking at the season > as a whole we need a point a match to stay up. Given that realistically we > will get nothing from 6 games ( Liverpool, arsenal , man City,) we need to > win 3 other games to get 9 from 9 - who can we beat ? Well Burnley and West > ham have got to be teams in that group. Also it is games against 'rival > relgation teams' that will determine our fate > So plenty of encouragement but also plenty to worry about as we go into the > break > Dave > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > Rest In Peace Steve "Score one, score one more!" Gillen. _______________________________________________ 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/ Rest In Peace Steve "Score one, score one more!" Gillen.
