Match Thread Leeds 1-0 Everton, Mon 18 Aug, 8.00pm

[MondayHater]

I said in previous posts ages ago. Leeds will be a "Trojan Horse" this season. Will win enough home games and draw games away which will easily keep them up. Don"t be surprised if they finish mid table.

mid table is a massive shout. I personally can’t see that, they were hyped up for there first game back but to be honest time will tell and we will see what they can do when we hit Nov etc.

There forward play was decent, but quite often over hit and not on target.

 

[windymiller]

To all the negative bell whiffs: to start the 1st game at Elland Road with a hostile crowd was an immediate disadvantage, There’s 37 games left, sort a right back/winger, defensive Midder & possibly a striker to play off the shoulder then we’ll be sound.

We need to integrate Grealish, Barry & Aznou ( 5 games away) into 90 min football, only negative is Gana looks slightly off pace & think he’ll be targeted more this season with a hard press. Safe journey home blues.

Leeds were terrible, they'll go down, they didn't look like scoring until they were gifted a penalty. Any decent team would've beat them tonight. However, we had zero shots on goal and about five touches in their box in the first half. We were marginally better in the second half but still produced no big chances. We need high quality additions now, a failure to sign a right back, a right winger AND a central midfielder and we'll be flirting with the drop again this season.

If that makes me a "negative bell whiff" then so be it.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Laughing at the MOTM spread.

Shows how bad it was. Absolutely nothing performance from them all.

For me, only Pickford comes out of it with any credit.

Garner played all right really. Given that he probably had to be told pre match where the position was. Taking him out of our midfield was a big mistake.

 

[Street end man]

Oh and MOM?....those travelling blues who gave up their Monday to go to that cess pit and sang their lungs off.
Club treat them like cack too.

 

[donny]

We carried are preseason form into the league i don't see us turning this around without investment

Thought we were awful in USA tonight we were even worse the worry pre game was Garner at LB he was our best player.The midfield was atrocious. The attack was nonexistent. People going on abt McNeil lack of pace should have come on at half time terrible performance.

 

[windymiller]

They will indeed struggle this year, but they absolutely hammered us today , we were garbage, did their keeper make a save?

They play like that they'll go down , if we do we will join them.

One, I believe. The Alcaraz near post shot. Other than that it was catching practice. We were utterly toothless up front.

 

[Moomin]

Scripted as is he would want 50/50 decisions to go the promoted teams way....I know we didn't play great but we did get a decision all night

It's tinfoil hat stuff that.

 

[b-rad]

My god, Gary Neville is desperate to try and justify the penalty. Not sure he believes the line he’s spinning though.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Laughing at the MOTM spread.

Shows how bad it was. Absolutely nothing performance from them all.

For me, only Pickford comes out of it with any credit.

I gave it to KDH because at one point he retained the ball when I thought he was going to lose it. Other than that, all of them were really poor.

Lots of work needed this week - on and off the training ground.

 

[Strumpet]

And neither did they. They played it like a cup final and only managed the win from a very generous penalty decision. We were shocking, but we'll get better. I fear that's one of the best performances they'll make this year.

I do hope we'll get better dude but I still think we should have done so much better today. The penalty is a smokescreen for a shocking performance from us and Moyes should know it.

 

[MACCA75]

That first half was a joke tbh. Was like we were away at the Champions league winners, not the Championship winners. They are garbage and we just sat and watched them dominate.

 

[JohnRoss23]

Do think some are overreacting a bit but changes are going to need to be made. I expect a much better performance on Sunday.

 

[Noble Savage]

Leeds were terrible, they'll go down, they didn't look like scoring until they were gifted a penalty. Any decent team would've beat them tonight. However, we had zero shots on goal and about five touches in their box in the first half. We were marginally better in the second half but still produced no big chances. We need high quality additions now, a failure to sign a right back, a right winger AND a central midfielder and we'll be flirting with the drop again this season.

If that makes me a "negative bell whiff" then so be it.

I’d call you a logical person . Certainly not a bell whiff . I don’t even think the most happiest of clappers could disagree unless they don’t understand the fundamentals of football .

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

You literally couldn't have picked a worse opening fixture. Away on a Monday night, live on TV, to a promoted side.

Liverpool away!

 

[Sharpies volley]

mid table is a massive shout. I personally can’t see that, they were hyped up for there first game back but to be honest time will tell and we will see what they can do when we hit Nov etc.

There forward play was decent, but quite often over hit and not on target.

They were crap. Its just that we were crap as well. It took a dodgy pen for them to beat us.