Leeds United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Rugby League first half, football in the second. Thankfully we have Malen who changed the game. Credit to Rogers for two beautiful goals.

Onwards and upwards!

[SaddVillan]

This is ex-Villan, and pundit Stephen Warnock's pithy summary on the Beeb website.

Villa weren't great in the first half and Leeds should have put the game to bed. Villa stayed in it and had the ability to change it tactically and personnel and Daniel Farke will feel like that is a big opportunity missed

The kind of end of game summary that we'd get in days gone by when we'd get done over at home by one of the biggest boys.

Times change.

For the better? 😉😜

[brontebilly]

Only saw second half, at that I thought our performance was all over the place. In mitigation, games after the internationals always difficult and pitch seemed glue like. Malen could have finished it earlier and had a very strong cameo. Good to see Martinez coming for a few crosses again. Some of our subs very poor and Sancho was a disgrace.

[wolfman999]

Sorry - I’m still far too rattled by Blues stadium announcement to enjoy any of this.

 I'm just so jealous. Why do they always get the nice things.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

1st half was grim, and using my managerial experience I’d have yanked Rogers at half time. Hmm.

But what is a “Sancho”?

[Garyth]

Feels like a classic Emery away win - stogy first half where we try to control and don't look too adventurous, then second half put more pressure on before spending the last quarter holding on to a lead.

[Dave P]

Shout out to the Leeds grounds man who made a pudding of a pitch and we still won

[Deano's Mullet]

Excellent win again. Once we scored 1st never looked in doubt. In 40 years of following Villa I remember scoring the odd free kick maybe once or twice a season- I don't ever remember two in successive games. Ref let them be.physical but they clearly burnt themselves out by end of the first half. Love this team.

[Villatillidie25]

Excellent win again. Once we scored 1st never looked in doubt. In 40 years of following Villa I remember scoring the odd free kick maybe once or twice a season- I don't ever remember two in successive games. Ref let them be.physical but they clearly burnt themselves out by end of the first half. Love this team.

Let alone two consecutive knuckleballs by different players 🤣

[Percy McCarthy]

Only saw second half, at that I thought our performance was all over the place. In mitigation, games after the internationals always difficult and pitch seemed glue like. Malen could have finished it earlier and had a very strong cameo. Good to see Martinez coming for a few crosses again. Some of our subs very poor and Sancho was a disgrace.

Yes, we did seem to struggle with the stodgy pitch.

[rob_bridge]

Well done on 2nd half. Thought Malen made a huge difference, another fine cameo from Barkely. Youri grew into the game. 1st half lethargic and sloppy but we stepped up.

Can I just make one comment that we can all agree on.

Leeds are not a Big Club.

[Smithy]

Coming from behind to win is always nice, more so at that place.  Excellent free kick to win it, but amazed to hear that's the first free kick he's EVER taken in professional football.  How many current internationals have a 100% record in taking free-kicks on goal?

Did anyone else think the pitch was shocking? I'm not sure if they left the grass a bit longer, or something else was wrong, but its churned up an awful lot for a top-flight pitch, and I lost count of the number of times passes were played that where they just lost all pace going across the grass.   Was this a deliberate ploy on their part, given our preference for playing out from the back, or has it been that bad all season?

[Brazilian Villain]

The 'Other Games' thread on SHA was busy until 4.06pm. After that, not so much.

[Garyth]

Let alone two consecutive knuckleballs by different players 🤣

It's like they practice them or something.

[andyh]

Seemed to me that they deliberately grow the grass a bit longer to slow the ball and therefore stop proper footballing teams.
Dirty dirty Leeds.