Welcome to the Matchday Thread and a short trip down the road for our early kick off , Nice trip for the Travelling Faithful , couple of years since we visited,hope the neighbours remember us
Venue...John Smiths Stadium...Date...7th Dec...Kick Off 1230hrs
Team News
Leeds United
Leeds United's Kalvin Phillips serves a one-match ban, so Ben White will move from defence into midfield.
Gaetano Berardi is likely to come back in at centre-half.
Forshaw Shack and Roberts still out.
Huddersfield
Huddersfield Town full-backs Danny Simpson (hip) and Jaden Brown (ankle) are doubtful, along with striker Fraizer Campbell (hip).
Terriers boss Danny Cowley could make changes after saying he was "ashamed" by their showing in last week's 5-2 defeat by Bristol City.
Links............…Sky Sports Leeds or…….……..
Video....... Hesgoal, usagoals Beinsports ? getting harder to find
(there's also streams on F/book and Twitter I believe )
Match facts
This is the first meeting between Huddersfield and Leeds since February 2017, when the Terriers won 2-1 in a Championship fixture.
Leeds have lost their past three league matches against Huddersfield - they have not lost four in a row against their Yorkshire rivals since a run of six between 1928 and 1931.
After a run that saw them lose 14 of 16 home league games, Huddersfield are now unbeaten in their last six at the John Smith's Stadium (W2 D4).
Leeds have won their past five Championship games, their longest run since a run of seven between November/December 2018.
Since scoring his first Huddersfield goal on February 9th, striker Karlan Grant has ended on the losing side in eight league matches in which he has scored - more than any other player in the top four tiers of English football.
Leeds midfielder Mateusz Klich has created the most chances from open play in the Championship (40) and been involved in the most open play sequences ending in a shot (117) - despite that, the Polish midfielder has registered just one assist this season.
Obviously a tough game against a club looking to bounce back from their last defeat ,and with a pretty good home record.
Could be a bit of a bogey for us but our confidence should be high and as long as we show no complacency we should be able to nick this one, I'm going 1-3 with Pablo, Bamford and Cooper doing the honours
Over to You.........................Predictions etc............................
Come Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds!!!
MOT
Can we go Live Please Admins
I'm on nights this week so might not be awake for this one
Leeds Utd v Huddersfield Matchday Thread
posted on 7/12/19
comment by hydywirralterrier (U3097)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 30 minutes ago
To be fair the gulf in class was evident. We are 25 points in front of them now and in the end it showed.
Yes they had chances but this is their cup final remember.
Let’s make it 7 in a row on Tuesday.
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You have a settled side/management team, that has been playing at this level for a long long time now. We have been in a mess for well over a year.
Don't forget, we've changed manager/s, Owners/chairman, been relegated. Whilst you've been building to where you are today. Hardly a great achievement
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You must have missed the Bates GFH and Cellino eras!
posted on 7/12/19
Excellent set of results that were very nearly perfect had Sheff Wed and Cardiff nabbes late wins. Fulham travel to Preston next, good chance to add to our gap, would be good even if we matched Fulham's result.
posted on 7/12/19
And 4 points ahead of where we were after 20 games last season.
posted on 7/12/19
We’ve been building for less than 2 seasons with this current team inc manager.
Bielsa got instant results, instantly got us playing the way he wanted and that was with a language barrier and whole new back staff.
Hudds have had a huge payment from the premier league and wasted all the money on garbage. Could’ve built a team that bounced back, but brought a garbage manager in and now looking in crisis.
posted on 7/12/19
Harrogate, most our premier league money went to Dean Hoyle when he sold up. Fair play to him, he put lots into us.
We have brought absolute sh¡te. Two players today were dropped from the squad, we payed £20+ million for them.(Kongolo /Diakhaby) Mounié up top today was £13 million, he's a carthorse.
Huge changes needed for us in January. Get rid of the expensive sh¡te and get young hungry talent in. The results today have highlighted that we are still in deepsh¡t, so fingers crossed we don't get worse. Next up, Charlton and Wigan away
posted on 7/12/19
All it takes is a few quality creative players and you’d have a decent enough team to make playoffs next season, the manager needs time too and he’ll probably build something good
posted on 8/12/19
comment by hydywirralterrier (U3097)
posted 14 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 30 minutes ago
To be fair the gulf in class was evident. We are 25 points in front of them now and in the end it showed.
Yes they had chances but this is their cup final remember.
Let’s make it 7 in a row on Tuesday.
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You have a settled side/management team, that has been playing at this level for a long long time now. We have been in a mess for well over a year.
Don't forget, we've changed manager/s, Owners/chairman, been relegated. Whilst you've been building to where you are today. Hardly a great achievement
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Just sounding like a sore loser now.
posted on 8/12/19
Far far from it most was said tongue in cheek. I'm a realist, I know how far behind we are, but hopefully our revolution will come next season.
posted on 8/12/19
Hate to be a prophet of doom here, but did our winning run last season (when we were after 8 on the bounce) not end with a 0-2 defeat at home to Hull? I hope we don’t see history repeating itself on Tuesday.
posted on 8/12/19
Also, I thought we were a tad lucky yesterday. Not with our goals but with the fact that Hudds missed some guilt edged chances. At least two if not three sitters. Their performance yesterday does not reflect their league position.