Here we go , on what I reckon will be one of the toughest games of the season.............while Elland Road is getting geared up for the Rugby World Cup games this weekend the team makes the trip to the Riverside to take on high flying 2nd place Boro.
Venue..Riverside Stadium..Date 27th Sept ...Kick Off 13:15hrs (quarter past one )
Team News
Leeds Utd
Uwe Rosler has said he will speak with Sam Byram before deciding whether to play him, Will Buckley is unlikely to be involved no word as to whether Jordan Botaka will be thrown in the deep end.
possible line up...........Silvestri, Wootton, Bamba, Cooper, Taylor, Cook, Murphy, Mowatt, Byram, Wood, Dallas.
Boro
Both Christian Stuani and Daniel Ayala are doubts for the game through injury.
Adam Reach is unlikely to be involved due to a possible loan move next week, but Carlos De Pena may be handed his first start in the league.
possible line up........Konstantopoulos, Nsue, Ayala, Gibson, Friend, Adomah, Leadbitter, Clayton, Downing, Nugent, De Pena.
Links..............Sky Sports or
Audio... http://leedsunitedshirt.com/leeds-united-news-website/leeds-united-live-radio-streaming/ or http://m.ustream.tv/channel/k-s-sports
Video......... http://www.footballstreaming.info/streams/todays-links/
or http://www.usagoals.com/football.html
Feel free to post better links if you can find any
First, the good news...........Boro have only managed one clean sheet this season
The not so good news is they'll be looking for their 7th win on the trot (in all Comps)
Ok I'm going for my usual 1-2 scoreline as I can't see them not putting one past Sylvestri, and 2 goals to us because they don't like playing us as we seem to have become a bit of a bogey team for them, ..(they've only beat us once in the last 7 meetings )....(Taylor and Botaka to score for us)
Over to You.................Predictions, Scorers , usual stuff ..............keep it friendly
Come Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds!!!
MOT
btw.......if you're lucky enough to be heading for the game on Sunday, Behave , they've put extra plod on
Leeds Utd v Middlesbrough Matchday Thread
posted on 27/9/15
We had like 7% more possession.
That adds up to about 6 minutes more with the ball over a 90 minute game.
That's not dominating possession at all
posted on 27/9/15
Possession was 59% to 41% according to BBC. That's 53 mins to 37 mins. If it was 60:40 that would be 50% more ball than them.
Unusual for us, we're used to it being the other way round.
I get you're p*ssed we lost. Everyone is. Defensively we were shambolic, offensively we could have created more. But the actual football we played today was better than most of this season and better than any of at last season that I remember. Maybe I'm just a glass half full guy.
posted on 27/9/15
Spot on milky!
Some of our play was excellent. We were just let down by stupid errors in defence.
Boro had two shots on target and our keeper only made a save from Babma's back pass!
Even the most biased boro fan must agree they were poor and very lucky to meet a team so generous.
Not sure they should have had 11 men on the pitch either.
Dirty Leeds?
posted on 27/9/15
Marty - first 15 mins of second half was shown as 70% Leeds by Sky. We were all over them at that point and had Ants goal been allowed I think we would have got at least a point.
Strange goings on there. Goal appeared to be given then it wasn't. Probably correct but hard to understand what happened exactly.
posted on 27/9/15
Just watching the last few minutes now.
Not a terrible performance if you remove the 3 defensive errors - 2 of which were unbelievably poor.
Botaka, Cook, Mowatt, Murphy (for his short time on the pitch) and Antenucci showed a few good glimpses.
Virtually no one of us expected to get anything out of this, let's move on.
posted on 27/9/15
If this game was the other way round are you honestly telling me that you would be on here saying we didn't deserve to win three nil.
No you would be on here saying so what if they had extra possession they didn't do anything with it.
And you would be saying hey it was us putting them under pressure that forced the mistakes.
You be acting like it was a great three nil win and not going on about how we didn't actually deserve to get anything from the game and how there defensive errors were not the only difference
How anyone can act like we deserved anything from that game is beyond me.
We didn't deserve to beat them and we didn't
posted on 27/9/15
I was on here last year, after they absolutely mullerred us saying we were really lucky. Others were saying it was a great defensive performance. Some don't seem to get that the score very rarely reflects the game in football.
We didn't deserve to win, today, because we committed hari Kari. I haven't seen anyone say we deserved to win. It doesn't mean that we didn't play some decent football.
Everyone was bitching last week at how lucky we were to beat mk Dons. Obviously we weren't lucky we scored 2 goals they scored 1.
It's the only stat that matters but it doesn't necessarily tell the story.
posted on 24/10/15
1 Silvestri
2 Byram
3 Bamba
6 Cooper
28 Berardi
15 Dallas
8 Murphy
24 Adeyemi
23 Cook
7 Antenucci
9 Wood
I'm guessing 442 with Cook on the left
posted on 24/10/15
posted on 24/10/15
Matty................I'm guessing you put your clock back too far