Dirty Whites 0 - 1 Mighty Villa

[Villa Lew]

Very impressive, can think of only one decent chance Leeds had, in the 2nd half.

UP THE VILLA

[Ads]

Excellent win and performance. Leeds never had any chances of note.

The midfield 3 worked harder than Leeds and the defence were totally assured. Effort and tempo from the start set the tone and if anything first half we looked more threatening.

Positives

El Ghazi. When he's bad, he is beyond woeful. When he's good, he is Ronaldo.

The effort and tempo they sustained, particularly in midfield was fantastic. They matched Leeds and that is the minimum requirement.

Nakamba. Fair play. I think his distribution is poor, unfortunately, but his positioning has certainly improved and he gave us real bite and energy.

Mings, the past few games he has stepped up and been an absolute leader.

Leeds never had a sniff in the final third. Night and day from the last two performances.

Negatives

Emi has a knock. Fingers crossed he's OK.

[Goldenballs]

We haven't conceded with Marv on the pitch apparently. 4 starts, 8 apps total.

[andyh]

Emi has a tight groin.

[Small Rodent]

One man team beats amazing team without one man playing.

Well done boys, thought Nakamba was superb tonight.

Ha ha!! Nice one.

[Legion]

One man team beats amazing team without one man playing.

Well done boys, thought Nakamba was superb tonight.

Ha ha!! Nice one.

Very.

[Toronto Villa]

Emi has a tight groin.

This is where it is great having two solid keepers in reserve. Heaton is a very good back up indeed. And we all know about Jed.

[LeeB]

We haven't conceded with Marv on the pitch apparently. 4 starts, 8 apps total.

He's nowhere near the ability of Luiz, which is utterly irrelevant if the team performs better with him in it.

He was excellent tonight.

[KevinGage]

It's still there for Barkley.

The quality was obvious in the early part of the campaign until his injury.

If nothing else, it's great to have that sort of option from the bench.

But he'll have a fight on now to get back into the starting XI.  How it should be.

[olaftab]

Pretty much a textbook away performance. Stifled their threat, always looked capable of doing something on the break and managed the game out.

Our 1-0 wins this season have been impressive. Without checking I don't think we have lost a game after leading other than fucking Burnley?

[AlexAlexCropley]

Leeds - the epitome of footballing shithousery:

Shit players.
Shit tactics
Shit attitude
Shit ground
Shit manager
Shit pitch

They also share a shit song with Coventry.

What's that?

[Taylor]

We are quite good at these 0-1 away wins. How many is that now?

[brontebilly]

Brilliant win. Tactics superb, shape without ball was excellent, a lot more legs and bite in midfield. Of course, we will have better days in terms of keeping possession but compared to Leicester we were just so much better. One of Dean Smiths best days in charge of us, I've been quite critical lately but there were some very ballsy selection calls that worked out. But we clearly worked very hard in training on our shape during the week. It all paid dividends.

Elmo started very poorly but settled down. Traore only moan for me, thought he was dreadful to be honest. No idea how he lasted the 95 mins...

Martinez 7, Elmo 6, Konsa 8, Mings 8, Targett 7, Nakamba 7, McGinn 7, Ramsey 6, Traore 4, Watkins 6, AEG 8.5. Both our subs Sanson and Trez were lively, Sanson looks a classy footballer.

Luiz and Barkley now need to get the finger out big time to get back in.

[Matt C]

Excellent away performance. Mings & Konsa superb, Nakamba was... marvelous.

Credit to Smith, got it spot on tactically, exposed their limitations and totally out-thought bucket boy.

[eamonn]

Leeds - the epitome of footballing shithousery:

Shit players.
Shit tactics
Shit attitude
Shit ground
Shit manager
Shit pitch

Hmm, at least half of that is untrue though.