Not at all. Leeds are hardly a team of invincibles, as they have shown many times this season. If they were they would be promoted. Norwich utterly dismantled Leeds at Elland Road. You couldn’t even beat Forest and have been bested by Wigan and 10-man Ipswich recently. He has to change something to alter the dynamics of the game but “nothing he can do”? Hardly.

Bielsa, you're good at this ....not!

Will be interesting. Bielsa has got the better of Frank three times this season, but today is the only one that will matter come the next round of the playoffs.

Slender lead going into this, but we usual rise to the big games. Can't wait, Elland Rd will be deafening, Derby will find it unusual.

Would be a bit funny if it all came to an end against the manager Leeds were caught spying on though.

Football has a funny way of throwing those kind of things up. I'll watch it later, can't be any worse than WBA v Villa

IF Lampard, Derby & the media hadn't made such a big deal about such a small (probably insignificant) thing, then all this 'spying' balls wouldn't have got in the way of the actual game for 3 games of Derby's season, you can see Leeds & Bielsa love the backs to the wall job.

Should have stop crying about 'spygate' and move on

Bielsa is so much more experienced he should be getting the better of a first year manager like he is

Frank will learn, it would be unfair if this season is the test of how good he is as a manager

comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Not at all. Leeds are hardly a team of invincibles, as they have shown many times this season. If they were they would be promoted. Norwich utterly dismantled Leeds at Elland Road. You couldn’t even beat Forest and have been bested by Wigan and 10-man Ipswich recently. He has to change something to alter the dynamics of the game but “nothing he can do”? Hardly.
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What was the result at Carrow Rd, Villa Park & Bramell Lane?

Takes a second to score a goal and they have 90 minutes and a favorable referee. They are well in it. Norwich didnt dismantle us at all, they scored a free kick and got 2 lucky deflected goals.

You will be in for a shock if you think you're already at Wembley

You've beat us three times season and deservedly so but you've faced a well under par Derby 3 times

Were better than that and it all depends which Derby turns up tonight

I’m taking nothing for granted - it’s 1-0 at 1/2 time.

Should be a great evening. I thought lampard spoke well, we right him off & we could come unstuck.

Let’s hope both sets of players can stay on their feet, don’t feign injury (Bamford as well!!), don’t go down like they’re shot one minute then run like gazelles 10 secs later like villa did last night.

Derby Are better cup side than us - we need to score early -ALAW

No one thinks were at Wembley yet

I know this sounds odd, but if we are not meant to go up(which would be heartbreaking), I would prefer to lose tonight then to Villa in the final - Then I would love Derby to thrash those Oscar winning Villains(excuse the pun) in the final.

I thought Norwich completely outplayed Leeds at Elland Road. But then we beat Norwich at Carrow Road and were beaten comfortably by Leeds home and away.

All games are different. No doubt Leeds have a big advantage going into tonight, not just the goal lead but psychologically after the way the previous games have gone. But that can all go out of the window if a particular incident goes one way or the other - Derby score and suddenly it all feels different. There are bound to be nerves on both sides. Realistically I give Derby only an outside chance but we certainly have players who on their day can hurt other teams. Much stranger things have happened in football than Derby winning a game at Leeds.

I'm more nervous about this one, than the first leg.

1-0 is nothing. Can change in an instant and then Derby have the edge.

I said on a post the other night, look what Barca,(Messi!)did to Liverpool!..

And lost!.

That old saying off "its in our hands" comes to mind!..

Have to admit that I am nervous too. A bad refereeing decision (and we have seen plenty of them), an injury to a key player (yep, plenty of them too), a bevvy of missed chances (what, Leeds?), and it could all go pear-shaped. These are things we can do nothing about.
But if you look at past results and performances, the player for player comparisons, the difference in coaching expertise, and the 12th man that Elland Road brings to each game, not to mention the 1 goal start, what do you expect me to say, except that we are in a strong position to win?

...I think Lampard recognises this too.

All the Bielsa ringing (U19827)

You say player for player but from my perspective we have the better players and you have the better team

Funny how opinions differ depending on which side of the fence you are

If Derby bring their A game then I fear nobody in this division, it just hasn't happened often enough this season hence why we finished 6th

And weirdly, I am not worried about this game at all. At the moment, we are going out and so we might as well give it a go.

I'm looking forward to seeing how we set our stall out.

No team has ever gone through to the final having lost the 1st leg at home, but there has to be a first for everything, so why not tonight?

No team has ever gone through to the final having lost the 1st leg at home, but there has to be a first for everything, so why not tonight?
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To counter act that Leeds have never beaten a side four times in one season according to Sky Bet

comment by Bushwacker (U2690)
posted 2 minutes ago
No team has ever gone through to the final having lost the 1st leg at home, but there has to be a first for everything, so why not tonight?
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To counter act that Leeds have never beaten a side four times in one season according to Sky Bet
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Bush - Ah well, we are good at setting unwanted records - its the Derby Way

If Derby score in the first 15 minutes and it goes into ET & pennos, I'll need oxygen.

comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 10 minutes ago
If Derby score in the first 15 minutes and it goes into ET & pennos, I'll need oxygen.
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I'll have my defibrillator plugged in for that