... ampard was always a punt on status and presence, perhaps even a celebrity appointment for all his obvious intelligence. He looked like something else at Elland Road, changing the game with a tactical switch just before half-time, and winning it with the way his players poured forward into the gaps Leeds’ game of sprints leaves behind.
There is a Chinese saying that defeat should be celebrated because in the process your opponent is educating you. And Lampard did learn how to play Bielsa. Filtered down through acrimony, the weirdness of “Spygate”, defeats home and away, he might just have had his own 11-hour tutorial.
Bielsa may well end up leaving Leeds now. If he does it will be a profound loss to English football, a place so reflexively hostile to intellectualism, to theory and form for form’s sake. Either way he remains football’s great nonconformist, drawing his Rothko shapes, scrolling his numbers; and embodying along the way the most unfashionable of concepts – beautiful, ennobling failure.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/18/marcelo-bielsa-play-off-leeds-championship
Good article, but I totally disagree with this part about Fraud Limpard:
"He looked like something else at Elland Road, changing the game with a tactical switch just before half-time..."
The change was due to an injury to the substituted player. Pure luck. But that's football.
Barney
You not so, it was a tactical change.
And one that worked, not our problem that you messed it up again.
We won it even when you drew level and in style.
Said it before and I'll say it again I'll take a final defeat to have just turned this game around so I'll take it on the chin.
But really reckon on the day we will have the measure of villa.
You wouldn't have.
Sigh, don't you read your own club's webpages?
"THIS IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY CAREER"
Big players rise to the big occasion and striker Jack Marriott certainly did that as he netted a brace in the 4-3 aggregate victory over Leeds United in the Sky Bet Championship Play-Off Semi-Final.
He was introduced into the action in the final minute of the first half, replacing the injured Duane Holmes, and he made an immediate impact."
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2019/05/this-is-the-highlight-of-my-career
Why didn’t Bielsa change things ?
We did have subs I’m guessing ?
comment by Igør Rampard (U1993)
posted 13 hours, 16 minutes ago
Barney
You not so, it was a tactical change.
And one that worked, not our problem that you messed it up again.
We won it even when you drew level and in style.
Said it before and I'll say it again I'll take a final defeat to have just turned this game around so I'll take it on the chin.
But really reckon on the day we will have the measure of villa.
You wouldn't have.
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we out played villa our last game with them so i don't see why we wouldn't do it again.
good luck igor, i'd much prefer derby to that cheating bunch at aston villa.
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posted on 19/5/19
... ampard was always a punt on status and presence, perhaps even a celebrity appointment for all his obvious intelligence. He looked like something else at Elland Road, changing the game with a tactical switch just before half-time, and winning it with the way his players poured forward into the gaps Leeds’ game of sprints leaves behind.
There is a Chinese saying that defeat should be celebrated because in the process your opponent is educating you. And Lampard did learn how to play Bielsa. Filtered down through acrimony, the weirdness of “Spygate”, defeats home and away, he might just have had his own 11-hour tutorial.
Bielsa may well end up leaving Leeds now. If he does it will be a profound loss to English football, a place so reflexively hostile to intellectualism, to theory and form for form’s sake. Either way he remains football’s great nonconformist, drawing his Rothko shapes, scrolling his numbers; and embodying along the way the most unfashionable of concepts – beautiful, ennobling failure.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/18/marcelo-bielsa-play-off-leeds-championship
posted on 19/5/19
Good article, but I totally disagree with this part about Fraud Limpard:
"He looked like something else at Elland Road, changing the game with a tactical switch just before half-time..."
The change was due to an injury to the substituted player. Pure luck. But that's football.
posted on 19/5/19
Barney
You not so, it was a tactical change.
And one that worked, not our problem that you messed it up again.
We won it even when you drew level and in style.
Said it before and I'll say it again I'll take a final defeat to have just turned this game around so I'll take it on the chin.
But really reckon on the day we will have the measure of villa.
You wouldn't have.
posted on 19/5/19
Sigh, don't you read your own club's webpages?
"THIS IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY CAREER"
Big players rise to the big occasion and striker Jack Marriott certainly did that as he netted a brace in the 4-3 aggregate victory over Leeds United in the Sky Bet Championship Play-Off Semi-Final.
He was introduced into the action in the final minute of the first half, replacing the injured Duane Holmes, and he made an immediate impact."
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2019/05/this-is-the-highlight-of-my-career
posted on 19/5/19
Why didn’t Bielsa change things ?
We did have subs I’m guessing ?
posted on 19/5/19
What a load of s#ite.
posted on 19/5/19
comment by Igør Rampard (U1993)
posted 13 hours, 16 minutes ago
Barney
You not so, it was a tactical change.
And one that worked, not our problem that you messed it up again.
We won it even when you drew level and in style.
Said it before and I'll say it again I'll take a final defeat to have just turned this game around so I'll take it on the chin.
But really reckon on the day we will have the measure of villa.
You wouldn't have.
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we out played villa our last game with them so i don't see why we wouldn't do it again.
posted on 19/5/19
good luck igor, i'd much prefer derby to that cheating bunch at aston villa.
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