Leeds United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[rob_bridge]

If (and these are massive ifs) we can stay injury free, sign a goalscoring CF in January who hits the ground running / Watkins rediscovers his form.  Then maybe we can have a really good go.  Arsenal look pretty nailed on at the moment though it has to be said.

We will know where Arsenal are this time 2 weeks. Their next 2 games are at Chelsea and us. So basically 2 form teams and potential (although v loosely in our sense) challengers.

[remy]

Also the marble keeps rolling around my head on how the absolute f*** did we contrive to lose to the Liverpool?

[PaulWinch again]

Also the marble keeps rolling around my head on how the absolute f*** did we contrive to lose to the Liverpool?

We played really poorly for an hour and gifted them the lead.

[Drummond]

Premier League rules state that the grass length must not exceed 30mm and must be uniform across the entire pitch, with officials checking this before each game. While the maximum is 30mm, most groundskeepers maintain a height between 20 and 22mm for a faster game.

[rob_bridge]

Premier League rules state that the grass length must not exceed 30mm and must be uniform across the entire pitch, with officials checking this before each game. While the maximum is 30mm, most groundskeepers maintain a height between 20 and 22mm for a faster game.

In the olden days (early 1990s) John Beck at Cambridge had the grass in the wide attacking areas kept long to make use of his long ball press. They'd hoof it into the corner and chase after it.

[ROBBO]

Emery is a footballing genius, we are not playing particulary well and yet we are so well organised we are still getting results. I hope we have the financials to strengthen in January.

[Rigadon]

Premier League rules state that the grass length must not exceed 30mm and must be uniform across the entire pitch, with officials checking this before each game. While the maximum is 30mm, most groundskeepers maintain a height between 20 and 22mm for a faster game.

It looked long, and very very wet (like they'd watered it a lot). 

[brontebilly]

Emery is a footballing genius, we are not playing particulary well and yet we are so well organised we are still getting results. I hope we have the financials to strengthen in January.

Agree to all your points bar one, don't think we looked particularly organised yesterday. Particularly down our left flank defensively in that second half - Sancho/Tielemans/Maatsen/Torres. Fortunate they left Dan James on the bench so long, he caused a lot of problems when he came in. Tielemans getting fitter will improve our ability to keep the ball, that pitch yesterday was dire

All that being said, it's some run of results since the debacle at Sunderland. That's with little or no impact from the summer signings.

[andyh]

Malen tells us about the pitch….it was long and slow.

As pointed out on the match thread

https://youtu.be/SUldZ6Irm1w?si=5t8U75KQcf0Hko8_

[Clampy]

Emery is a footballing genius, we are not playing particulary well and yet we are so well organised we are still getting results. I hope we have the financials to strengthen in January.

How many people watching that first half would have brought on a defensive midfielder at half time? We have a manager who thinks outside the box and brings on a forward and a left back and it worked a treat.

[simon ward 50]

Premier League rules state that the grass length must not exceed 30mm and must be uniform across the entire pitch, with officials checking this before each game. While the maximum is 30mm, most groundskeepers maintain a height between 20 and 22mm for a faster game.

TBF it had rained an awful lot over the weekend in West Yorkshire.

[simon ward 50]

Emery is a footballing genius, we are not playing particulary well and yet we are so well organised we are still getting results. I hope we have the financials to strengthen in January.

How many people watching that first half would have brought on a defensive midfielder at half time? We have a manager who thinks outside the box and brings on a forward and a left back and it worked a treat.

On the subject of subs, I never want to see Barclay playing in the number 10 role again!

[PeterWithesShin]

Malen tells us about the pitch….it was long and slow.

As pointed out on the match thread but it was pointed out that we aren’t allowed to comment on the pitch as it makes us sound like sourness apparently !!

https://youtu.be/SUldZ6Irm1w?si=5t8U75KQcf0Hko8_

Which is exactly what Souness said and had the piss ripped out of him for. As Malen said it's the same for both. And we were much the better side the last hour so it wasn't that much of an issue. If anything it helped us if it was a heavy going pitch as it helped knacker out Leeds.

[andyh]

You NEVER hear players commenting on pitches nowadays, so to hear a player say the grass was long means it was a thing.

The comments on the match thread were that the grass seemed long and the ball was rolling slowly, as has been backed up by a player.

The only person ‘ripping the piss’ was you.

There is no reason for anyone to deride comments that were observations not complaints.

[Percy McCarthy]

Emery is a footballing genius, we are not playing particulary well and yet we are so well organised we are still getting results. I hope we have the financials to strengthen in January.

How many people watching that first half would have brought on a defensive midfielder at half time? We have a manager who thinks outside the box and brings on a forward and a left back and it worked a treat.

On the subject of subs, I never want to see Barclay playing in the number 10 role again!

You didn’t like the free-kick he won that we scored the winner from?