I only saw the second half so my opinions can't be completely valid. However, Burnley were strikingly poor, less than half their team looked like professional footballers - the only element of consistency for the rest of them was their unerring ability to pass the ball into touch or to a Leeds player (which doubtlessly upped our possession stats).
What then does that say about us? We should be good enough to play a team like that off the park but we obviously didn't so there is a problem somewhere. It's hard to say if it's the team or (some of) the individuals - probably a bit of both. Some of our players looked like they were at 95% which is a bit surprising after an international break and there are one or two players who I don't rate anyway but even so we should have done better. There needs to be changes for the next match and Daniel Farke and the players really have to take the opportunity to prove themselves at this level. On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM Simon McNally via Leedslist < [email protected]> wrote: > It reminded me of the home game against them last year. > Conceded a bad goal and then they sat back and let us have possession > without threatening anything. > I thought Struijk was suspect again (gave the ball away needlessly in the > build up to their second and along with Ampadu didnt close the scorer) , > surely time for Bijol? > Aaronson was awful and should have scored. > Seen a lot of criticism of Harrison but I thought he did ok. Intercepted a > pass and should have had an assist if Aaronson had scored. The back post > volley was tricky, thought he did the right thing in trying to get over the > ball. Did it too well and hit it into the ground and it bounced over. Only > question i guess is whether he had time to take it down. > Gudmonsson was excellent again. > Darlow had little to do other than pick the ball out of the net twice. > Kicked the ball out for their throw in needlessly but we cleared that for > another throw which we switched off from - Stach not tracking his man. > Would have liked to have seen a bolder selection from the start rather > than chucking all the attackers on at 2 nil. > > Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> > ________________________________ > From: Leedslist <[email protected]> on behalf of nattan--- via > Leedslist <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2025 10:44:36 AM > To: leeds list <[email protected]> > Subject: [LU] Burnley > > I said after spurs that it was becoming a pattern and one that would get > us relegated, we deserved something but went home empty handed. > Only watched on a dodgy stream so don't always get real feel / impression > but the stats were so much in our favour, 68% , 19 shots to 4, xG of 1.68 > to 0.45 , so we can argue that we deserved at least a draw but the only > stat that counts was 2-0 Burnley. > It's still too early to say how important a game is, but the general > consensus was this was a must not lose and yet we lost.West Ham is now > looking like a must win. > The trouble is we are so toothless up front, as soon as the team was > announced I felt we would not score, > When the board went up for 7 extra minutes the commentary team said it > gives leeds a chance, my response " they could add 7 hours and we will not > score " > Despite all the possession etc we only had 2 chances where I felt we > should/ must score, Arronsen when the keeler got it onto the posy, and > Bogles miss, the rest were half chances at best ( my feed went down for > Harrisons chance so no idea re that) > If you can't score then it's imperative that you don't concede yet we gave > a very soft goal, a terrible pass out by Darlow straight into touch, then > leaving the lad a free header. That meant Burnley could just sit back > Their second, yes a screamer but we gave him far too much room. > So another disappointing result > We need to stop the slide and quickly > > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
