Leeds United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Drummond]

Whilst the pitch was the same for both teams, they will have been able to prepare for it better, knowing exactly what the conditions would be.

[PeterWithesShin]

Even the club took the piss out of Souness, which will always be funny

https://x.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1313163038233509888

[RamboandBruno]

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.

If just talking about yesterdays game fair enough, but in terms of us not playing that well lately, Id say go back and have a look at the last two home games against Man City and Bournemouth.
In regards to Dan James, I don’t think we were lucky he wasn’t playing longer. Anyone who has seen Dan James play over the last 6 or 7 years, will see he’s not really done anything of note for a whole game. There’s a reason he’s making short cameos for a very average Leeds side.

[usav]

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.

And even then, we hit the post and the bar before they scored.

[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.

If just talking about yesterdays game fair enough, but in terms of us not playing that well lately, Id say go back and have a look at the last two home games against Man City and Bournemouth.
In regards to Dan James, I don’t think we were lucky he wasn’t playing longer. Anyone who has seen Dan James play over the last 6 or 7 years, will see he’s not really done anything of note for a whole game. There’s a reason he’s making short cameos for a very average Leeds side.

He had the beating of Maatsen anyway when he came on

[Villa Lew]

I think the fans deserve a shout, thought they were brilliant yesterday.

[Dante Lavelli]

We’re 2 points better off after 12 matches than last year;

When did our sticky patch start last year (Kamara at CB etc), was it around now, and through to the start of January?

[Dave]

We’re 2 points better off after 12 matches than last year;

When did our sticky patch start last year (Kamara at CB etc), was it around now, and through to the start of January?

We were actually just about to come out of our worst run of the season - that one started with the late draw to Bournemouth at the end of October and we then lost five and drew three, before winning three in a row at the start of December.

The only time we lost consecutive matches between November and the end of the season was Man City away and the cup semi-final, and only once did we go three matches without a win (mid January, draws against Arsenal and West Ham either side of the Monaco defeat).

[SamTheMouse]

Those stats tend to back up the theory that Emery's more controlled, less frenetic playing style helps keep our players fresher for the run-in.

Notwithstanding shite performances like the one we saw on the final day of last season.