Leeds United 1-1 Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[CJ]

El Ghazi's red should be rescinded as replays from the 'blind' side of the officials clearly showed he didn't even raise his hand and Bamford cheated to get him sent off. There should be some retrospective action on Bamford but I doubt it. Likewise there could be some retrospective action on Hourihane for grabbing Klick by the throat (perfectly reasonable imho) but he may get away with it as (presumably) the officials saw it

[AsTallAsLions]

SJM shouldn’t even be on the bench next week, nor Jack, nor Mings.

We wouldn't be allowed to drop that many players who've all played every game since Jan when available.

resting SJM is the priority. We can sub the rest off second half.

Not allowed by who?

There is an EFL rule against it.

[Chris_Jephcott]

Wow. What to say?

First things first, Bielsa did totally the right thing. He turned down the chance to keep Leeds in the slim automatic promotion race after what can only be described as a total injustice. So fair play to him for taking a stand against what happened. It also cooled the heads down a bit - which was needed. If it hadn’t happened, it would have been a very nasty game ending.

Bamford is a cheating arsehole. I suspect the FA cannot take retrospective action against him, but it is deserved. El Ghazi will have his card over turned no doubt. Leeds... bunch of dirty sodding cheats. I hope we really do get the chance to do them over at Wembley. Failing that, I want to see them getting mauled by Tony Pulis.

I thought that we played quite well as a team again. Defence looked solid. Leeds gameplan seemed to be just to hack everybody in midfield down, and stifle our creativity.

Bit concerned about Kodjia - we need Abraham back ASAP.

Rest McGinn for Norwich now. We’ll not catch West Brom so we might as well accept it and use some of the other squad members.

But Leeds. What a horrible bunch of dirty arseholes.

[Bad English]

Yes. He could be a swear word: "Fuck off you utter Bamford!"

[SamTheMouse]

Incidentally, it looked to me as if our players didn't switch off for their goal, because the Leeds fella made like he was going to put it out, only to disguise the pass.

[hilts_coolerking]

I hope Bamford plays.  He's useless.  Lightweight too.

[Steve67]

Patrick Bamford is a cheating shit and the red card will be rescinded I'm sure.  Up to the sending off, Villa had the better chances I thought.  Absolute credit to Marcelo Bielsa for instructing his players to give us the goal, that was a class thing to do, although his players are classless in the build up.  Leeds had five shots on target, two of them were when we were down to ten men.  Tyrone Mings is superb, SJM one booking away from a ban.  We defended brilliantly, absolutely fantastic and thoroughly deserved at least a draw.  We have nothing to fear from the play offs and are now guaranteed at least 5th place with the point.  Well done Villa for standing tall and taking everything Leeds had to throw at us.  I suspect Bamford might be in a spot of bother with the F.A. for trying to con the officials.  A fair score. Not an easy place to go and we stood up. Class.

[Somniloquism]

SJM shouldn’t even be on the bench next week, nor Jack, nor Mings.

We wouldn't be allowed to drop that many players who've all played every game since Jan when available.

resting SJM is the priority. We can sub the rest off second half.

Not allowed by who?

There is an EFL rule against it.

So resting 3 players isn’t allowed. Wow what a shit rule.

[supertom]

Next game is almost a free hit. If there's any issue with Jed needing a rest, lets chuck Sarkic in. Bit of experience in case we need to call upon him. I'd rest Kodjia too and give Davis a game. Rest SJM.

[AsTallAsLions]

SJM shouldn’t even be on the bench next week, nor Jack, nor Mings.

We wouldn't be allowed to drop that many players who've all played every game since Jan when available.

resting SJM is the priority. We can sub the rest off second half.

Not allowed by who?

There is an EFL rule against it.

So resting 3 players isn’t allowed. Wow what a shit rule.

Well in fairness I think it's classed as "wholesale changes" so I'm not really sure how they quantify that. We might get away with doing it given the obvious injuries and niggles we have, but those 3 are all fit...

[Legion]

Bamford is a disgrace. Bielsa is a class apart.

[Legion]

Chaos and controversy

[Legion]

Our goal

[Damo70]

Be nice if El Ghazi's card gets overturned and Bamford gets a punishment for cheating. Bamford was also very obvious in showing his unhappiness at Bielsa's goal decision.

[Bad English]

Requirement to Play Full Strength Sides in League Matches

24.1

Each Club shall play its full strength in all Matches played under the auspices of The League unless some satisfactory reason is given. In the event of the explanation not being deemed satisfactory the Board shall refer the matter to a Disciplinary Commission which has the power to impose such penalties as it shall think fit.

https://www.efl.com/-more/governance/efl-rules--regulations/section-5--fixtures/