Welcome to another nail biting nervy Matchday Thread and hopefully the continuation of our trek to the top
Welcoming Wigan to Elland Road and a team that's looking for points to cement their place in the Championship, a team that Bielsa believes their position belies their ability .
Venue...Elland Road...Date...19th April...Kick Off...1500hrs
Team News
Leeds United
MB has already stated the side will remain unchanged, not sure what the score is with Cooper but in Bielsa we Trust
Wigan
Defender Danny Fox will miss the trip to Leeds, with long-term absentee Michael Jacobs the only other player sidelined.
"Nick Powell and Josh Windass are fine," Wigan boss Paul Cook revealed.
Links............………….Sky Sports Leeds or.........................
Video........http://www.usagoals.com/football.html Feel free to post better links if you can find any
(there's also streams on F/book and Twitter I believe )
Match Facts
Leeds United are looking to complete their first ever league double over Wigan Athletic, having won 2-1 earlier this season.
Wigan have lost just one of their four league matches against Leeds at Elland Road (W2 D1 L1), a 0-2 defeat in December 2013.
Leeds have never lost a home league match on Good Friday (W3 D4 L0), winning 2-1 against Bolton on Good Friday last year.
Wigan Athletic have won three of their last four league matches on Good Friday (W3 D0 L1), winning 3-0 against Oldham Athletic last year.
Marcelo Bielsa has won 25 league matches this season - a joint-record in a Leeds manager's first Football League campaign in charge along with D****. Ray, who won 25 in 1927-28, when the club won promotion to the top-flight.
Wigan have won just one of the last six Championship matches in which they've gone ahead (W1 D2 L3).
Right here we go then, another tough game with Wigan playing a similar style to Leeds (but not as good ) this will be tough, after taking a point off Norwich last time out they'll fancy their chances of getting summat at ER although their away form this season has been pretty woeful.
I'm backing a 2-0 Win for us with Bamford and Alioski hitting the net (can't believe how crap I am at predicting though ) anyway with the blunts playing earlier we'll know what we have to do
Over to You...………………….Predictions etc...…………………..
Come Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds!!!
MOT
Can we go Live Please Admins
Leeds Utd v Wigan Matchday Thread
posted on 19/4/19
Shef utd will be on a such a high now and we just have to hope Hull can at least get a point on Monday and we will have to win the lot to get promotion on the last game now.
posted on 19/4/19
Lorra we were never going to catch Norwich.
posted on 19/4/19
Stoopo - Those stats make it look like we played well. 10 shots on target sounds like their goalie had to make loads of saves. In fact we had very little goal threat, our set pieces were woeful, crossing into the box was awful. We have scraped through in a lot of games recently but today our luck ran out
posted on 19/4/19
comment by Macca: Emily Bishop's love child (U8194)
posted 3 minutes ago
Shef utd will be on a such a high now and we just have to hope Hull can at least get a point on Monday and we will have to win the lot to get promotion on the last game now.
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That's the same Sheff Utd that last week conceded a 95th min equaliser at home to Milwall and lost 3 key players ............... Bravo Leeds
posted on 19/4/19
Did you hear any fat ladies singing? Me neither. There's no trophies awarded today. Get a grip everyone. G'day and g'nght.
posted on 19/4/19
Tslufc, absolutely spot on, we’ve been scraping through, couldn’t last forever.
posted on 19/4/19
What games have we scrapped through?
posted on 19/4/19
Sheff weds 1-0
Milwall 3-2
Score rarely reflects possession but does reflect us not taking chances or more aptly half chances, I just don’t think half the chances we create are that good.
posted on 19/4/19
Just gutted. I want to believe we can still do it, but my gut is telling me today was pivotal and we blew it! Can’t see SU bottling it now!
posted on 19/4/19
comment by MaidinLeeds (U2464)
posted 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Just gutted. I want to believe we can still do it, but my gut is telling me today was pivotal and we blew it! Can’t see SU bottling it now!
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Difficult to disagree with any of that!