Leeds United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

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

They'll be back on it soon to root for Spurs to overtake us! 

[PeterWithesShin]

[PhilVill]

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.

He shit out of a challenge (again) not too long before the end of the game. I would have subbed him there and then, absolutely pathetic levels of commitment.

[Steve67]

Two wonderful goals by Rogers and excellent subs by Unai.  A game of two halves really as we were poor in the first and very good in the second.  Malen was very good, as was Barkley.  If we can cut out the sloppy bits, who knows what we might achieve.  Ollie is very out of it at the moment, so much so, he needs a few games out.  Great win and into the top four.

[algy]

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

It really has taken the sheen of everything we’ve done so far this season … or indeed ever … as we’ll forever be in the shadow of their mighty upturned table factory stadium.

[Matt C]

Look at that table. Mighty decent of us to give the rest of the league a head start over the first five games but if we hadn’t…

[eamonn]

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.

Until we hit them with a knuckle-sandwich in proper mofo mafioso style 

[brontebilly]

Two wonderful goals by Rogers and excellent subs by Unai.  A game of two halves really as we were poor in the first and very good in the second.  Malen was very good, as was Barkley.  If we can cut out the sloppy bits, who knows what we might achieve.  Ollie is very out of it at the moment, so much so, he needs a few games out.  Great win and into the top four.

Barkley started ok but he was really poor near the end. Kept giving the ball away.

[Flamingo Lane]

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.

He shit out of a challenge (again) not too long before the end of the game. I would have subbed him there and then, absolutely pathetic levels of commitment.

Twice, he literally just stepped aside, to allow his opponent the ball.

[cdbearsfan]

Apparently a Leeds fan invaded the pitch to have a go at Farke. I missed that.

[Somniloquism]

PWS referenced it at the time.

[PeterWithesShin]

Apparently a Leeds fan invaded the pitch to have a go at Farke. I missed that.

As if by magic

Leeds fan deciding a banning order is better than watching us score

[TonyD]

Great win.  Well clawed back.
Marlen excellent. 

If Ollie can find his mojo then it’s gonna be one hell of a season. 

Special mention for Sancho.
He offers fuck all.  Nothing going forward and doesn’t defend.
Like playing with 10 men.
Send him back in January.  Fraud.

[eye digress]

Super win, despite the difficult conditions, atrocious playing surface (surely that was a bit of Leeds chicanery?) and very aggressive approach from the home side.

We made our quality pay at the crucial moments. Terrific brace from Rogers, really of the very highest quality.

On an individual level, I thought it was a foul on Martinez for their goal, but that his shithousery caught up with him (he made up for it later on).

Was impressed by Torres' improved strength and persistence, especially when isolated by those longer balls through our inside left channel. He seems to have determined to take ball and player out of touch each time.

Our passing was mostly poor in the middle of the park, with Kamara particularly (and unusually) wasteful. He just couldn't get to the pace of the turf.

Ollie remains all at sea, sadly. It was a nice effort end of the first half, but he seems to be missing the crucial half a yard to make the most of situations – the potential one on one, the header early second half, and that break where he should have picked out Malen all alone.

Bit of a question mark over what Sancho brings to the party. He made a good early impression when he came on but faded – looked like he didn't fancy the physical challenge.

[Hookeysmith]

Martinez    weak as piss for goal but excellent afterwards

Cash  decent

Konsa  class

Pau  struggled with passing

Digne  nothing of note

Kamara  Average for him

Tielemans   sluggish

McGinn  sloppy passing, to reliant on trying to win free kicks

Buendia  targeted for rough treatment and it worked, poor from him

Watkins  unlucky with shot but overall pretty poor

Rogers  anonymous first half, genius 2nd

Subs
Barkley  sloppy at times

Malen  game changer, should of killed game with chance

Maatsen   caused them problems

Sancho   garbage

Bogarde  tidy

The pitch   definitely effected our normally crisp passing game through midfield

Overall   hard fought away win at tough place to go, even though Leeds are shit