Leeds United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Percy McCarthy]

If he did it on purpose, the groundsman played a blinder.

[PeterWithesShin]

Let alone two consecutive knuckleballs by different players 🤣

It's like they practice them or something.

Magic McPhee.

[mrfuse]

Leeds were like an annoying wasp that we needed to ignore not panic and play Emery football.They did their best to put us off from doing this but quality prevailed.

[LeeB]

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.

Correct, I've not seen them this season but it seems they still play like bunch of hyperactive kids juiced up on Sunny D.

[KevinGage]

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.

Sancho is a total waste of space.

What is it, £200k of his £300k we're ponying up each week?   A great use of resources for a club as supposedly neurotic about FFP as we are.

Don't think Lindleof is sitting on our bench for Championship-level wages either.

Monchi should've been given his cards as soon as he suggested that pair.

[cdbearsfan]

Let alone two consecutive knuckleballs by different players 🤣

It's like they practice them or something.

Magic McPhee.

Rogers went to celebrate with him apparently.

[mrfuse]

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.

I noticed this as well, Some of the balls didn't reach the intended target as the ball slowed down.

[Toronto Villa]

If he did it on purpose, the groundsman played a blinder.

I absolutely think pitch preparation goes into tactics. I mean it’s been used forever in cricket. They know we like to knock it around at the back so a slower pitch with longer grass might create mistakes if the passes are under hit. Thankfully we overcame that.

[saint13]

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.

I don't think I have ever seen a player blatently jump out of challenges so often as Sancho. Howver, this was nothing new. He has been doing this for years.

Sancho is a total waste of space.

What is it, £200k of his £300k we're ponying up each week?   A great use of resources for a club as supposedly neurotic about FFP as we are.

Don't think Lindleof is sitting on our bench for Championship-level wages either.

Monchi should've been given his cards as soon as he suggested that pair.

[wolfman999]

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.

Do they use it for Rugby League or some similar
neanderthal Sport?

[eamonn]

ta da

On the plus side Leeds have scored 0 goals after an hour since opening day, and conceded 9. including 6 in the last 4.

Yeah but you also bigged-up their home form 

[BC54 VFC]

So happy...the 35-year hoodoo has finally been broken!! Since we arrived in Shrewsbury in November 1990 we'd never seen the Villa win an away game when we'd been to watch them at the Beacon, Copthorne...the last debacle being at Man United on Boxing Day 2023. We can go there more often now 

[eamonn]

Thanks for the points.

First the points, now the pints.

[Somniloquism]

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.

Do they use it for Rugby League or some similar
neanderthal Sport?

Yes but RL has been finished for a few months.

[cdbearsfan]

Rugby league is at Headingley. Not the cricket ground, but joined on to it. Which I always think is quite cool.