Wasn’t sure what to expect after heartache of last season. Watched match in bar in Bucharest with some Romanians who asked why the strange kit!
Great to start off with a win, even if we faded a bit, Pablo brilliant open the scoring, Bamford worked hard and our closing down up top was great.
Thought our cutbacks were more effective but some better shots would have seen us 4/5 up.
Thought Ben White was great on his debut, very calm and collected, but countering this, Douglas was awful, continually out of position and no surprise the goal came down that side.
Not sure Casilla has changed, he must cause so much unrest amongst his defenders, he almost took out Cooper at one point, we really need to think about an alternative.
Felt like we ran out of concentration at the end, fix that and we’ve hit a decent chance, especially if we can get a couple of players in.
Romanians says we should play in pink more often.
Thoughts from today
posted on 4/8/19
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 2 hours, 30 minutes ago
There was something wrong with the structure of the team in the first half that allowed Bristol to raid down their right side 4 times. A full back cannot mark 2-3 players.
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Agree to a point. there’s an element of communication/positioning thing. It always looks like the fullback’s fault if someone gets in behind... in this system they are permitted to bomb forward and others are expected to cover.
It’s the obvious area to target us and teams did it all last year... but it was too easy today and it wasn’t necessarily weight of opposition numbers... sometimes just one guy making a run and no-one picking him up. I’d have to watch them again to have a view, but looked to me on more than one occasion that Douglas was in the vicinity but didn’t pick the run.
He also got beaten by his winger a few times today... struggles against pace. Did fine going forward I thought.
Bielsa replaced douglas with Alioski, then Alioski with Davis in a reshuffle so tried 3 full backs... obviously wasn’t happy with the position today.
posted on 4/8/19
comment by Mattyp (U8926)
posted 2 minutes ago
I thought everyone played well today but I can’t actually think of a single mistake Forshaw made today.
Guy had a fantastic game
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His only mistake was he forgot to pack his shooting boots. Not actually sure he owns any actually, but yeh he was really good.
posted on 4/8/19
comment by milkyboy (U12731)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Mattyp (U8926)
posted 2 minutes ago
I thought everyone played well today but I can’t actually think of a single mistake Forshaw made today.
Guy had a fantastic game
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His only mistake was he forgot to pack his shooting boots. Not actually sure he owns any actually, but yeh he was really good.
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100% pass completion
26/26
He needs consistency now not just having 1 great game in every 15 or so
posted on 5/8/19
Kiko is scary at times with his decision-making. I'm surprised nobody has reined that in for the new season after how last season ended.
The goal I think wasn't his fault though - the shot got a deflection off Phillips (I think) and Kiko was heading the wrong way so ended-up on his backside.
posted on 5/8/19
I can assure you that KC hasn’t changed.
posted on 5/8/19
Forshaw hasn’t got any shooting boots.
posted on 5/8/19
It a fan of Forshaws but credit where it’s due he did play well yesterday.
Will be interesting to see who starts LB next match, normally Bielsa doesn’t change the team.
posted on 5/8/19
Forshaw is a good player, a lot more consistent than
most...he can play passes short and long, no he's not a finisher.
Hernandez is more skilful than Forshaw, that's a given,
but even scoring that goal and making another, he does get caught in possession often, lots of his passing, intricate though it is, fails to find teammates.
In my opinion I don't think his build and style will last a
season, think he's prone to be injured.
Is Forshaw underestimated on this forum? Yes I think
so....is Hernandez overestimated, hmmmm Yes I think so.
posted on 5/8/19
Forshaw is a steady Eddie.
Not good enough for a promotion team.
Creativity a massive problem if you play him and KP in the same team.
posted on 5/8/19
Creativity starts in your own penalty area, through to
the halfway line, ends in the opposition area and you need the players to see that through.
Leeds need goals, lack of creativity wasn't the reason they didn't get promotion, Promotion.