Pizy

Yet even with all the negatives and shocking defending, we still had the chance to take that 3 points right at the death. Falls to the 1 player out of the entire team you’d want it to with a gaping, empty net from a yard out and he somehow misses it. Fucking sickening. Going to take a couple of days and perhaps some fortunate results around us for me to get over this one.

It is definitely a clear pattern with this team and was under Maresca too. We take a lead (even what should be a comfortable one) and then our whole team seems to think “job done, the other team will fold now” and our levels drop through the floor. This more than anything shows how badly we lack that killer mentality as a team. You’d never see the current Arse team or the great City and Liverpool sides from recent years do stuff like this. They go 2-0 up and put their foot on the opponents throat. We go up and then go into cruise control instead.

Josh and Trev were nearly flawless the entire match and then inexplicably turned into clowns on that second Leeds goal. Seriously, what the FUCK was that?! These 2 points dropped may literally decide our UCL fate come the end of the season. We desperately needed them.

One of the most dominant, one sided matches we’ve played all season. In complete and total control, carving through them at will and keeping them away from our goal all together. And then literally the one and only negative of Caicedo’s game rears its head again which is that he feels like he has to chase down and win EVERY ball he sees. That turned the game on its head completely. And then Palmer who’s finally rounding into form misses a sitter at the death from inches away from an open goal. That’s a fucking gut lunch of the highest order. Who knows where our season could’ve gone if we won that like we should’ve. I feel sick.

That’s the worst goal I’ve ever seen concede. Oh my word, what the fuck have we done. Theyve done NOTHING all match…I’m gonna be sick.

Once again our intensity drops after we think the game is over and now that leads to this. Right back to being a match now.

João Pedro is the master troll. Baited 3 different idiots into fouling him in the box when he’s going nowhere 😂😂😂

Leeds doing what we all expected. Be as annoying as fucking possible and getting away with a lot of it due to poor refereeing. Really just need to get Estevão involved more and keep Leeds players from getting isolated against our yellow carded defenders.

Andrey Santos makes a MASSIVE difference to this team. His football intelligence both on and off the ball is incredible. Always seems to be in the right place and he’s super tidy on the ball. He provides the platform for The whole team to play. He is our new Jorginho but with more athleticism. Only real critique of that half is that Palmer didn’t finish off that free run he had in the box. We score that and I think we’re cruising the rest of the way.

This dogshit referee already giving Leeds EVERYTHING here.

My only complaint is that once again a key player is fit enough for the bench but somehow not fit enough to start. Why is Reece not in the team if he’s fine? Why not start him, play him for 60 minutes, and then sub him out if you’re managing his minutes?

Same. Leeds stylistically are the sort of team I hate going against because they play in the exact way that usually causes our players trouble. I’ll be extremely pleased if we deal with them today.

This next summer should transfer window should look a lot like last year’s. Clearing out loads of players that simply aren’t good enough. Tosin, Badiashile, Disasi. Send Essugo on loan. The tricky bit is seeing if the club have the balls to admit they fucked up with Gittens and Garnacho and even Delap and move them on after only 1 season. My gut says no on all 3. They’ll all get another make or break season. With Colwill returning from injury and Quenda + Emegha on the way we don’t actually need that much in terms of buys. I think it’s a lock that our 3 strikers entering next season with be Delap, João Pedro, and Emegha whether we like it or not. So no chance we buy yet another out and out striker. So I could see it being a fairly subdued window with incomings unless we go crazy selling multiple attackers. Depending on how Sarr looks the rest of this season and whether Lavia can stay fit for longer than a few games, those are the only 2 spots that are truly glaring.

The only real concern is the same one I always have had with us this season. Tired legs and/or a super slow start that allows an inferior opponent to build confidence. We all know Leeds will try to press us aggressively from minute 1 and rattle us. So will the likes of Caicedo, Cucu, Enzo, etc who have played a load of minutes recently be fresh enough to deal with that?

Expecting another very tough game against them. They’ll raise their level knowing this is an important fixture historically like they did last time. So let’s hope our lads are willing to do the same unlike the reverse fixture. All 6 points on offer this week are mandatory if we’re a serious team. Arse smacked them up 4-0 the other day and that was with a changed team, wasn’t it? No reason we shouldn’t be trying to batter them like that if we’re truly up for it. Just hope we’re better prepared for their aggressive pressing and intesity which Maresca failed miserably at doing last time out.

Garnacho over Gittens for me. At least Garnacho despite being shit most of the time will score a decent amount against super shit teams over the course of a season. Gittens hasn’t really shown that he can even do that.

I think there’s a player in there too. I’m just not sure it can happen for him in a team like ours. He was highly effective at Ipswich when no opponent was ever going to park the bus against you. He could use his pace and quick turns on the counter and was excellent at that. Here we dominate the ball in the vast majority of matches and Delap’s best attributes are completely nullified because every defense is jam packed and restricting him. He may have the body and physical tools of your classic big #9 but he isn’t a Giroud type who can play with his back to goal effectively or you can feed cross after cross. He’s basically a bigger, more muscular Nico Jackson who is a counter attacking specialist. I 100% think that if he were to be sold or loaned to some midtable club next season who play against teams who don’t sit back he’d be straight to scoring 12-15 PL goals.

That decision to jump in super early and buy Emegha when we did feels so premature now and may fuck us over in the summer. Now we’re going to be getting a player who will have missed half the season. Don’t get why we couldn’t just wait until the summer and evaluate the whole striker market. He plays at our feeder club so it’s not like we wouldn’t still have a massive leg up on any competition for him. Now we’ve essentially completely taken ourselves out of the striker market since I can’t see Delap going after 1 season. Really, I wouldn’t be stunned at all if Rosenior wants to give Jackson another chance who everyone kind of forgets about.

Garnacho has already killed multiple attacks and he is just on. And we still can’t get the ball near their goal all second half.

This is starting to get annoying as fuck. Can’t keep the ball to save our lives now.

Really have to switch back on and actually play, ffs. Wolves have belief now and in these shit conditions anything can happen.

They look like they give up when they went 0-1 down. Started pretty well and had a go and then collapsed. But this is what we need to be doing against all these smaller sides with the players we have. We’d be so much more comfortable in the table if we had 🤦‍♂️

If only Lavia was fit this would be the ideal chance to hook Caicedo and get him some fitness minutes. We should probably take him off at 60 minutes anyways.

This midfield 3 if it gets a run of a bunch in a row can be fantastic.

Was a sloppy first 10 minutes but an increible performance ever since the first pen.