Match Thread Leeds v Everton : Tuesday 30th August 2022 : KO 8pm

[Shibbywiggles]

oh my god seriously get to bed

Good to have you on the side of positivity now Matty after last season - don’t blame you though in those last few months ?

 

[Blue_in_london]

We are what we are, we only have one goal in us so a team playing against us doesn't have much to worry about. It's just a question whether we can score that first goal and hang on until the end. Given our squad, away points aren't to be sniffed at but it's very annoying that we've lost four points from our last two from winning positions.

My frustrations from today are the offside goal, because whilst it may be the letter of the law - the law is clearly an ass. No player should ever be considered offside if their feet are behind the defender's. Lampard sitting on his hands all game is concerning. Yes he didn't have many options but our players were flagging horribly towards the end so he should have made changes in my opinion.

Finally, to not have Maupay available is shambolic. God knows who's fault it is but the situation is laughable and could only happen to this club you feel.

We had 2 goals in us tonight...

 

[matty1878]

yes it’s frustrating but i can see clearly we’re better than last season and have fight

 

[Toffeeback]

Indeed.

With Gana and Maupay we beat these and Brentford

Absolutely. No need to panic here. Gana in, Maupay in, Dom back from injury (and not missing significant time again later) and this team is not in a relegation battle at the end. Add one more decent attacker in the next two days and I'm even more confident.

You can see improvement overall. They're also showing a better fighting attitude more consistently so far. Last year we lose both of these last two. Get the goal-scoring sorted (hopefully underway), and we'll be fine.

 

[john jako]

I don't think it was bringing on players to change the game mate, it was about bringing fresh legs on.

I get it mate but he doesn’t trust them. If he can’t trust them on set pieces or carrying out orders then he won’t do it. Bunch of mercenaries on that bench tonight.

 

[blue to the bone]

Last season we lose that game for certain

 

[maccavennie]

Yep, whilst we are all desparate for our first win, the performance of theteam in these first 5 games has been head and shoulders above the dross of last season.

Once we get up top sorted, we'll have a better chance of killing these kind of teams off and scoring 2 instead of just 1.

I was heartened by tonight, very tough game, but we stood up.

Tarkowski has a proper mistake in him but one thing I'm loving about him is he's right into players when there's crap kicking off.

 

[glory_daze]

Yep, whilst we are all desparate for our first win, the performance of theteam in these first 5 games has been head and shoulders above the dross of last season.

We haven't played anybody apart from an average Chelsea side,who have lost their other two away games. We don't score enough goals to win games ,that's why we will be fighting relegation again. Leeds are awful defensively, most teams would have won comfortably tonight there by attacking them more.

 

[bluelegend]

Two points when last season we would have had none. All the better when you consider the personnel available and no striker. The board are letting FL down big time here.

 

[Curtis]

Frank clearly doesn't trust anyone on the bench need to make a slew of signings before the window closes or things are going to get even further grim

 

[matty1878]

Good to have you on the side of positivity now Matty after last season - don’t blame you though in those last few months ?

mate i can’t come with people saying we’re getting relegated lol

 

[street end]

Patterson man of the match, anyone seen Dave?

 

[girders]

Thought onana Patterson and iwobi were exceptional and Davies gray and mcniel stank the place out

McNeil ran his guts out ...Davies and Gray poor

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

You should only be offside with a legal part of your body. Foot or head. An elbow. Any score legally

Shoulder was offside and you can legally score with your shoulder mate.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

We had 2 goals in us tonight...

More if Patterson was more composed and Onana got a bit of luck with that ball coming down quicker at the corner

I thought we looked quite slick going forward tbh, just didn’t do it enough