07-02-2020, 09:14 PM
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Forest v Leeds 8-2-2020
Pre Match Comments....
Nottingham Forest v Leeds Utd
Saturday 8th February 2020 17.30 | The City Ground
Second placed Leeds travel down to the East Midlands for a tea time kick off against promotion hopefuls Nottingham Forest.
Four points and two places separate the teams, but more worryingly Leeds recent form over the last 8 games see the Whites tiltering just above the relegation zone in 19th place with Barnsley, whereas Forest top the form guide with 17 points over the last eight games.
Will we see wholesale changes in the Leeds line up following the shambolic display against Wigan at the weekend?
Will we see any changes at all?
Augustin completed 45 minutes for the reserves on Monday, and by all accounts looked rusty. Surely, the only way of gaining match fitness is actually playing for the first team?
Will he even be on the bench?
What about Poveda? Should he be given an opportunity to show what he can do?
Do Bamford and Casilla deserve to be in the starting line up
If not, who would you start instead?
Leeds legend Eddie Gray certainly believes that Augustin should make his debut on Saturday :-
“I think definitely he’ll be used,” “Scoring goals has been a problem recently.
“Patrick Bamford scored his couple against Millwall and you’re hoping he’s going to go on a run and score seven or eight. It never happened for him at the weekend.
“But that’s why it’s always good to have someone there. He’s scored goals in decent leagues, so hopefully he can come in and be a great asset for the football club.
“It will give everyone a lift, the fans, his teammates and that’s what you’re looking for.”
Form guide doesn't interest me. Millwall were a form team and we beat them, Wigan weren't and they beat us. Forest play more to our strengths and I'm pretty confident we can beat them with our existing team.
Bielsa has already gone on the record by saying Poveda is ready for action so I'd hope to see him on the bench. Big Kev, while I wouldn't say rusty per se as his quality of service wasn't what he could expect from the first team, did seem to have to remind himself to drop deep at times, and press. He does look keen though, so while I don't expect him on the bench this game it won't be far off.
Till then we j7st have to hope Bamford has a good game. Kiko for me is the bigger worry. Since Cardiff his stats have plummeted wholesale (see the recent YEP article for particulars) and unlike Bamford we have a ready and proven replacement in Meslier. The flipside of that is the amount of pressure that will rest on the young man's shoulders and I doubt Bielsa will want to give him that sort of burden.
Aside from that, not much else I can say. Let's smash 'em.
Selection wise.
Wondering if Roberts is fit enough to start. Pablo needs a rest imo. Bamford will and JKA will be on bench.
If we have Dallas at CM again O don’t think I could bring my self to watch.
Hope someone pushes Bielsa at the press conference about player rotation we have a busy month ahead.
Just watching SKY doing analysis on both teams. Showed all Leeds missed chances against Wigan and highlighted our inability to score, then showed Forrest being ruthless in front of goal in their past few matches....I think I now fear for us in this game.....hope I'm wrong!
I saw that to
We are basically the total opposite of Forest.
They like to play on the counter, we like to have the ball.
They are very clinical, we are very wasteful.
We are going to lose arent we?
Just watched a Leeds training video. There was big Kev on a training bike but when it came to training footage on the pitch he was no where to be seen.
Does this mean that he is still not considered up to speed for the first team? it would not surprise me if he is not on the bench once again.
Possession is the name of the game. If you have 70% possession then the opposition have only 30% of the time to score. If you don't have the ball then you can't score... simples. You also have more than double the chances of scoring if you are able to take your chances.
There was a recent video of the five best goals Leeds scored against Notts and all of the goals came from outside the 18 yard box... sometimes I think we try to walk the ball into the net... more shots from distance might be the solution to our goal drought.
MB has just given a very long answer about when JKA will play.
Its on PH's twitter.
Long story short he isnt going to play vs Forest think thats obvious
Sometimes i despair
Onto the weekend - will playing away help in terms of expectations?
There are no expectations, there are doubts. The supporting is not believing any more in our team. But we believe in our team. For this reason, now people are asking for anything, when one player is in the sea and he’s dying. Supporting is not believing in us anymore, but we believe more than ever in ourselves.
We wish to always play at Elland Road because our supporters never damage our team. So for us, playing away is not a good thing for us. If you think playing is better away, then you think playing at home is uncomfortable and it’s not like that. If the supporters lost his faith in the team we have to recover the confidence that we lost.
We have to recover the confidence that the supporter does not have now. We need the confidence of the supporter and if we don’t desereve it, we are trying to recover it. What we are not going to do is give up and not trust in ourselves. Because we deserve to keep the trust in our side.
It doesn’t matter most of the matches that we’ve lost has meant people don’t trust more in our team, we are forced to analyse what we make of things. And take conclusions and see what we expect. No doubts about the job we are doing and we know the problems and which are the solutions that can resolve those problems.
So, I prefer to take the responsibility fo the mistakes which puts the responsibility of those things to another. If I had said that Augustin has to play, no matter how, thinking that Augustin in this moment is not him that’s going to resolve this problem, what I do is not take responsibility in Augustin or in our club.
Augustin will play when he is good condition to show what he can do. You can be in good condition but you have to be able to show it.
What I cannot do is know that Augustin is not in good condition and allow him to play as that will harm him and the club.
why the hell did we get him? very frustrating that we needed a striker and got (what looks like) a decent one, but he's not going to be able to play until easter because he's not played regularly for 8 months.
That just doesn't make sense.
Pre Match Comments....
Nottingham Forest v Leeds Utd
Saturday 8th February 2020 17.30 | The City Ground
Second placed Leeds travel down to the East Midlands for a tea time kick off against promotion hopefuls Nottingham Forest.
Four points and two places separate the teams, but more worryingly Leeds recent form over the last 8 games see the Whites tiltering just above the relegation zone in 19th place with Barnsley, whereas Forest top the form guide with 17 points over the last eight games.
Will we see wholesale changes in the Leeds line up following the shambolic display against Wigan at the weekend?
Will we see any changes at all?
Augustin completed 45 minutes for the reserves on Monday, and by all accounts looked rusty. Surely, the only way of gaining match fitness is actually playing for the first team?
Will he even be on the bench?
What about Poveda? Should he be given an opportunity to show what he can do?
Do Bamford and Casilla deserve to be in the starting line up
If not, who would you start instead?
Leeds legend Eddie Gray certainly believes that Augustin should make his debut on Saturday :-
“I think definitely he’ll be used,” “Scoring goals has been a problem recently.
“Patrick Bamford scored his couple against Millwall and you’re hoping he’s going to go on a run and score seven or eight. It never happened for him at the weekend.
“But that’s why it’s always good to have someone there. He’s scored goals in decent leagues, so hopefully he can come in and be a great asset for the football club.
“It will give everyone a lift, the fans, his teammates and that’s what you’re looking for.”
Form guide doesn't interest me. Millwall were a form team and we beat them, Wigan weren't and they beat us. Forest play more to our strengths and I'm pretty confident we can beat them with our existing team.
Bielsa has already gone on the record by saying Poveda is ready for action so I'd hope to see him on the bench. Big Kev, while I wouldn't say rusty per se as his quality of service wasn't what he could expect from the first team, did seem to have to remind himself to drop deep at times, and press. He does look keen though, so while I don't expect him on the bench this game it won't be far off.
Till then we j7st have to hope Bamford has a good game. Kiko for me is the bigger worry. Since Cardiff his stats have plummeted wholesale (see the recent YEP article for particulars) and unlike Bamford we have a ready and proven replacement in Meslier. The flipside of that is the amount of pressure that will rest on the young man's shoulders and I doubt Bielsa will want to give him that sort of burden.
Aside from that, not much else I can say. Let's smash 'em.
Selection wise.
Wondering if Roberts is fit enough to start. Pablo needs a rest imo. Bamford will and JKA will be on bench.
If we have Dallas at CM again O don’t think I could bring my self to watch.
Hope someone pushes Bielsa at the press conference about player rotation we have a busy month ahead.
Just watching SKY doing analysis on both teams. Showed all Leeds missed chances against Wigan and highlighted our inability to score, then showed Forrest being ruthless in front of goal in their past few matches....I think I now fear for us in this game.....hope I'm wrong!
I saw that to
We are basically the total opposite of Forest.
They like to play on the counter, we like to have the ball.
They are very clinical, we are very wasteful.
We are going to lose arent we?
Just watched a Leeds training video. There was big Kev on a training bike but when it came to training footage on the pitch he was no where to be seen.
Does this mean that he is still not considered up to speed for the first team? it would not surprise me if he is not on the bench once again.
Possession is the name of the game. If you have 70% possession then the opposition have only 30% of the time to score. If you don't have the ball then you can't score... simples. You also have more than double the chances of scoring if you are able to take your chances.
There was a recent video of the five best goals Leeds scored against Notts and all of the goals came from outside the 18 yard box... sometimes I think we try to walk the ball into the net... more shots from distance might be the solution to our goal drought.
MB has just given a very long answer about when JKA will play.
Its on PH's twitter.
Long story short he isnt going to play vs Forest think thats obvious
Sometimes i despair
Onto the weekend - will playing away help in terms of expectations?
There are no expectations, there are doubts. The supporting is not believing any more in our team. But we believe in our team. For this reason, now people are asking for anything, when one player is in the sea and he’s dying. Supporting is not believing in us anymore, but we believe more than ever in ourselves.
We wish to always play at Elland Road because our supporters never damage our team. So for us, playing away is not a good thing for us. If you think playing is better away, then you think playing at home is uncomfortable and it’s not like that. If the supporters lost his faith in the team we have to recover the confidence that we lost.
We have to recover the confidence that the supporter does not have now. We need the confidence of the supporter and if we don’t desereve it, we are trying to recover it. What we are not going to do is give up and not trust in ourselves. Because we deserve to keep the trust in our side.
It doesn’t matter most of the matches that we’ve lost has meant people don’t trust more in our team, we are forced to analyse what we make of things. And take conclusions and see what we expect. No doubts about the job we are doing and we know the problems and which are the solutions that can resolve those problems.
So, I prefer to take the responsibility fo the mistakes which puts the responsibility of those things to another. If I had said that Augustin has to play, no matter how, thinking that Augustin in this moment is not him that’s going to resolve this problem, what I do is not take responsibility in Augustin or in our club.
Augustin will play when he is good condition to show what he can do. You can be in good condition but you have to be able to show it.
What I cannot do is know that Augustin is not in good condition and allow him to play as that will harm him and the club.
why the hell did we get him? very frustrating that we needed a striker and got (what looks like) a decent one, but he's not going to be able to play until easter because he's not played regularly for 8 months.
That just doesn't make sense.