Welcome to the Matchday Thread and the visit of high-flying Arsenal, sitting in top spot and buzzing with confidence this will be quite a test for a Leeds squad looking to put a pretty poor run behind them, personally I think anything could happen if the right Leeds Team turn up
Venue...Elland Road...Date...16th Oct...Kick Off...1400hrs
Team News
Leeds United
Leeds winger Luis Sinisterra is available after serving a one-match ban for his red card against Aston Villa.
Junior Firpo is fit, while Leo Hjelde could return next week from surgery to remove his appendix.
Arsenal
Arsenal will recall striker Gabriel Jesus, who was rested for Thursday's Europa League victory away to Bodo/Glimt.
Oleksandr Zinchenko, Emile Smith Rowe and Mohamed Elneny are long-term absentees.
Links ....................not televised so............
http://sw.freestreams-live1.com/epl/ , Hesgoal.tv or https://www.releasesky.com/category/soccer/
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
Arsenal could earn five consecutive victories against Leeds in all competitions for the first time.
Leeds have gone 12 league and cup meetings without a win since beating Arsenal 3-2 in the top flight at Highbury in May 2003 (D2, L10).
Leeds are winless in seven competitive home matches against Arsenal and have failed to score more than one goal in any of the past 14 encounters at Elland Road.
Leeds United
Leeds are unbeaten in their four home games this season but are without a win away.
Since returning to the Premier League in 2020, all six of Leeds' league defeats from a winning position were against London opposition.
Patrick Bamford is one short of 100 career league goals. He has gone nine appearances without scoring since his 95th-minute equaliser against Brentford last December.
Arsenal
Arsenal can win nine of their opening 10 league games in a season for only the second time, having done so in 1903-04.
The Gunners are vying to score three goals or more in four successive league matches for the first time since a run of five in August and September 2004.
Each of their last four Premier League clean sheets were in away fixtures, including all three this season.
Gabriel Martinelli has scored five goals and provided five assists in his past 14 league games.
Ok so it's a tough game against a quality side, but nobody expected that brilliant win against Chelsea so I'm not without a wee bit of hope here, a good battling performance, a fair ref and a 2-1 win for the Mighty Whites, Paddy getting his long awaited 100th goal and Roca with a rocket from outside the box (and why not
Over to You...................................Predictions etc ..................................
Come Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds!!!
MOT
Can we go Live Please Admins
Leeds Utd v Arsenal Matchday Thread
posted on 16/10/22
We are much better. But, we cannot finish.
Huge problem.
Add to that, Marsch tends to over complicate.
Example: Rodrigo right wing, Jack false 9. The simple,
yet effective set up should've been Jack LW, Sin RW,
Rod CF. It's hard enough playing square pegs. Don't
create yet more.
In addition, giving Bamford a full 45 was suspect. As
seen by his awful finishing. No, dire finishing. He needs
30 at most right now. Rod made a huge mistake in that
back pass that caused the Saka goal. Outside of that,
he was very good first half. And the team were good
all game.
posted on 16/10/22
comment by Shaun M - Livin da vi la Roca (U9955)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by White as Snow (U22893)
posted 6 minutes ago
This team isn't going down, all that talk is just nonsense to be honest.
But a pro footballer should never completely miss the target from the spot. Harsh truth is Bamford's finishing has cost us again today.
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Don't think we'll go down but calling relegation talk nonsense is a bit daft. We should have went down last time and we aint that much clear of it .....
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Talking about relegation this soon is nonsense.
posted on 16/10/22
* Bamford has a fantastic ability to be in the right place,
at the right time so often. And that is brilliant. But, his
pile of injuries and his match rust are causing issues.
He can't finish. He's never been prolific. But, he can be
very good. Very, very good. Ease him back and take the
pressure off him. I undertsood having PB take the pen
today. However, it may have backfired in the short term
with adding yet more pressure to his load.
posted on 16/10/22
Talking about relegation this soon is nonsense.
^^^^^
Whether you or anyone likes that, we're squarely
in the conversation. The table and results says so.
posted on 16/10/22
I hope you don't think that was the first time Rodrigo gave the ball away
posted on 16/10/22
We face Leicester away next ...... HUGE game
posted on 16/10/22
Talking about relegation and saying we should have gone down last season is funny, because if we should have gone down we would have!..
We didn't and we're still here, I didn't see the game but reading what's been said and seeing the Arsenal 606'ers shouting WTF suggests we had a good game, the player's will watch it again and again, and hopefully, they'll pick themselves up and get on with sorting it out!..
posted on 16/10/22
comment by Batty 🇺🇦 (U4664)
posted 19 minutes ago
Talking about relegation this soon is nonsense.
^^^^^
Whether you or anyone likes that, we're squarely
in the conversation. The table and results says so.
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The table also says we've played less than 10 games.
That Arsenal side would have destroyed us this time last season.
posted on 16/10/22
comment by milkyboy (U12731)
posted 30 minutes ago
comment by HaveFaithInLeeds (U8688)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by Lowfields73 (U21886)
posted 17 minutes ago
Bamford changed the game, sure he missed the pen and other chances but we bossed the second half because of him. Very encouraging second half, definitely deserved at least a point probably all three.
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It was a brilliant performance for a side at our level. We almost nullified Arsenals threat and caused them problems. That’s all you can ask for. Very unlucky.
I am concerned about the style of football under Marsch and really worry about our lack of threat with the ball.
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It was a brilliant performance, but you’re concerned about the style of football?
Honestly we’ve played two of the top 5 sides and outplayed them both. Of the rest only Brighton could justifiably say they were actually the better side on balance over the full 90 minutes.
So concern over silly mistakes, poor finishing, lack of points , I get - but not sure what the issue is with the style of football that’s playing to the strengths of the players, and competitive in every game.
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We’ve also played Everton, Villa, Palace, Brentford and not created enough. Only in the Brentford game did we create anything on the ball.
And the huge concern is that a side like Palace found it so easy to nullify by changing their style of play to lobbing it between the defence and the midfield.
Like I said today was very reassuring but the narrow system looks to me like it’s making it so much harder for Harrison, Sinisterra, Aaronson, Summerville, Klich etc to be as threatening as they can be on the ball.
posted on 16/10/22
That penalty miss by Bamford. Wtf... just saw it on MOTD. We have got to take our chances. Outrageous