Bear in mind as well, Leeds had 3 key players out, including their best player. They reshuffled the whole team to plug the gap then had to reshuffle it again when his replacement looked like he was going to get sent off.That’s the kind of flexibility of thought and tactical pragmatism that smith just lacks.
It was inevitable, we were not going from scrapping to stay up to winning the league.Leeds out passed us, out ran us and out thought us.We knew exacctly what their plan was and we let them play it.some dredfull peformances all across the pitch, maybe Cash who was run ragged tried the hardest but had little back up.sobering us up for the next outingAs an aside, why is there a downer on here about Bamford, scored a hat trick and seemed decent to me.The bench as has been said does little to inspire and Tarore was caught up in the Malaise when he came on
Quote from: Stinkin_Thinkin on October 23, 2020, 11:01:28 PMQuote from: Goldie.7 on October 23, 2020, 10:47:23 PMWhen Bielsa hooked his player off after 20 minutes, I thought it's probably not going to be our night. To be honest, I really respect that sort of ruthlessness from a manager. Smith should have done the same to Barkley after his horror pass at 0-1, which directly resulted in their second. I thought the same but would be incredibly brave of any manager to take off a big name like Barkley, could of soured the whole loan, easy for Bielsa to sub his no name players. Smithy could of perhaps shifted Ross out to the right in place of Trez and put Nkamba on to try and get hold of the midfield however it seemed like leeds wingers did most of the damage so who knows how that would of worked out.Barkley has had games like this for Everton and Chelsea, thats probably why they've loaned him out. It's up to us to see if we can do something with him.The day Ross Barkley is too good for us to upset and sub off when having a mare is a day to give up watching us. Smith's comments on Ross so far have been, worryingly, on the starstruck side (has he ever managed a higher profile player who wasn't already at any club he's been boss of?). I'd be right pissed off tonight if I was Conor Hourihane.
Quote from: Goldie.7 on October 23, 2020, 10:47:23 PMWhen Bielsa hooked his player off after 20 minutes, I thought it's probably not going to be our night. To be honest, I really respect that sort of ruthlessness from a manager. Smith should have done the same to Barkley after his horror pass at 0-1, which directly resulted in their second. I thought the same but would be incredibly brave of any manager to take off a big name like Barkley, could of soured the whole loan, easy for Bielsa to sub his no name players. Smithy could of perhaps shifted Ross out to the right in place of Trez and put Nkamba on to try and get hold of the midfield however it seemed like leeds wingers did most of the damage so who knows how that would of worked out.Barkley has had games like this for Everton and Chelsea, thats probably why they've loaned him out. It's up to us to see if we can do something with him.
When Bielsa hooked his player off after 20 minutes, I thought it's probably not going to be our night. To be honest, I really respect that sort of ruthlessness from a manager. Smith should have done the same to Barkley after his horror pass at 0-1, which directly resulted in their second.
we were outclassed and out thought by Leeds. But for me, without spectators the game simply isn't real.