Leeds United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

4th in the table, lovely stuff. Imagine where we might be if we’d had a decent summer transfer window?

You mean like 11th placed Liverpool ?

[rob_bridge]

Excellent. That’s how you grind out a tough, tough win.
Morgan will get the headlines, but Kamara was an absolute colossus.

I thought Kamara had a poor game by his standards as did all of our midfield. Bogarde looked class when he came on as did Maatsen and Malen.

The midfield standard since Sunderland has been top top quality. Not so today.

[paul_e]

That’s 5 successive games we’ve lost on the pointless xG nonsense….do we have to send the 12 points back?

Job done

Over half of their xG is from the cut back, header and deflection from our clearance that was their goal. If the offside had been given as it looked like it should've we'd have been miles ahead on it.

But again, that's not what the stat is meant to be used for.

[rob_bridge]

Lovely clean Leeds who I have always had a soft spot for, you mean. Best of luck to them in their next three games.

Are they playinf Blues Albion and Wolves? If so all the best. If not enjoy the whinging

[cdbearsfan]

Man City, Chelsea and Liverpool. Can't say I hold out much hope of them doing us a favour but you never know I suppose.

[andyh]

That’s 5 successive games we’ve lost on the pointless xG nonsense….do we have to send the 12 points back?

Job done

Over half of their xG is from the cut back, header and deflection from our clearance that was their goal. If the offside had been given as it looked like it should've we'd have been miles ahead on it.

But again, that's not what the stat is meant to be used for.

Does anyone take any notice of xG bollocks, really ?

[JUAN PABLO]

Great gritty hard worked win . Absolute atrocious first half , other than a Watkins curly just wide , didnt do alot , still not convinced their goal was onside and Martinez was dreadful for the goal. .  The early goal second half def settled us and gave us a lift even thou the dirts still kept plugging along .
Two wonderful goals by Morgan , a few players underpar but still have the quality to beat the dirts . 
Sancho disapointed me a bit with lacklustre tackles and Barkley who did well for the freekick look knacked after 20 minutes , the pitch didnt help.
Shame we cant send Elliot back and replace with a striker or even Sancho as Watkins looks like he has lost some pace , hopefully he turns it around.

But whatabout Malen . he was brilliant today , pacey and strong , made a massive difference , MON with Rogers today .

I wonder if we had Malen in the champs league squad last season instead of Disasi , we might have won the champions league

I think top 4th is really on this season.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

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

The Rhinos have also played at Elland Road, last time being this year, today, first half.

[Mister E]

Yes I noticed that too. He doesn't look right but I can see him popping up with an important goal at some point. Zanioloesque.

You've just summed up the issue: referring to Zaniolo means no future for him.
By the way, I think the Z reference is more relevant to Guessand: has physique but little impact.

[Meanwood Villa]

Just watched the highlights and saw the ref explaining the disallowed goal on his mic. Did not hear it at all in the stadium.

[LukeJames]

Two direct Free Kicks in consecutive games, sorcery!

[PeterWithesShin]

[BoVillan esq]

Those are the sort of games that can define your season.

Niggly opposition, rubbish ref and we still came out on top despite not being totally on it.

Wouldn't have fancied us being 4th going into Dec after the summer we had and the start of the season we endured. Yet here we are.

Spot on, its these games that count, equally its when you go to places like Leeds, a distinctly average team and lose that can also put a serious downturn in your season that you then have to recover from, we go on to the next game in 4th place and we do our very best to hold on to 4th. Its now the season starts in one respect.

[Demitri_C]

Big win. Takes us to 4th. Doing far better than many of us expected. 1st half poor. Second best on everything. 2nd half malen change completely  changed the game. Once we adapted  and started playing leeds couldnt handle us. They tired  after that first half and we dominated.  A very pleasing day all round

[eamonn]

There was a graphic put up stating that they have not lost at home after scoring first in about 2 years or such like.

41 games 33 wins, 8 draws after scoring first. Makes the win  even more impressive.

Was equally surprised to see how good our record at Elland Road was, no defeats since SGTII in the early 00s. Was sure they must have spanked us in the Ch'shit. I guess the losing a two goal lead and them winning 2-3 at VP at the death one Christmas was a scarring one-off!