Pizy

That’s the exact move that Delap should be doing week in and week out. That’s his game at his best. Stop trying to do too much.

That’s almost as comical as the second we conceded against Leeds.

They really are both brutal to watch. Delap at least has the excuse of still being inexperienced and new to playing at a huge club. Garnacho has been playing for a huge club for years and hasn’t progressed at all. He’s the same brainless pace merchant everyone said he was before we stupidly bought him. Literally the ONLY situation I feel we can trust Garnacho in is if we play balls over the top and he’s either using his pace to beat the last defender or clear on goal. Can’t beat defenders from the wing to save his life and his decision making is some of the worst ever.

I actually kind of like Neto centrally like this in the #10 area when he’s badly out of form out wide. He’s more likely to cause danger here than slapping in a hundred aimless crosses when he’s out wide.

When we’ve played it quickly they haven’t been able to deal with us but it looks like we’re in full on walking pace/energy conservation mode. Delap is also killing us time and again.

Tbf, who are we playing in his place with Lavia and Essugo out? Gusto I guess?

Why would you have technology for some parts of the competition and not others? That makes no fucking sense to me whether the ball went in or not.

Just praying for no key injuries. Hopefully we don’t run the likes of Caicedo and Enzo into the ground.

I mean that’s not really up to him, is it? He signed a long new deal recently I believe.

You can tell that he is incredibly talented with the ball at his feet for a CB. Some of that great ball carrying was on display yesterday. But as you would expect for a teenager his positional discipline and reading of the game is still super raw. I agree with others that I’d 100% prefer to see him getting these minutes than Tosin or Badiashile but I think Josh would benefit massively from a season’s loan at a really solid midtable PL team. He could absolutely follow the Colwill path and come back here a top class CB. He’s not really going to get the consistency and reps if he’s in and out of the team constantly here. Something to consider in the summer.

Rosenior more or less confirmed he will. Have a bad feeling it’ll be next to Tosin, though. 😬

Judging by Rosenior’s presser he’s going to play a strong but likely still quite changed team. So I’m hoping that at least Moi and João Pedro are rested. Ideally Enzo would too but we don’t have many options in midfield to change everyone since Lavia and Essugo are perma injured. Hopefully 90 minutes for Estevão and Sarr.

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.