Stoke City v Leeds Utd Match Thread

[whiteswan]

2-0

prepare for a week of gloating from the media and jokes

Ignore it Cjay....who cares who says what. Scum were everyones joke a few weeks ago...now it's us. It'll be some other team soon. Remember 24 hours is a long time in football.
I can't help thinking though that Bielsa's press conference will have every other team 'up' when they play us as if they didn't raise their games already against us. I really wish Bielsa hadn't done that...said so at the time.

[leedsmad]

Stoke definitely deserve it but all team's have extra motivation when playing against us and the ref as well.
We have a massive battle ahead for auto promotion

[Cjay]

Aliiiiiiiiiiiiii

2-1

[YorkshireSquare]

GOAL: Alioski pulls one back, left-footed as the corner falls to him. Surely too late though. You'd think....2-1 on 90+5. #lufc

[Cjay]

2-1 ft.

We didnt deserve anything from that, no complaints.

3 defeats in 4 cant be overlooked though.

[whiteswan]

At least pulled a goal back...goal difference could be very important come May

[YorkshireSquare]

Teams like Stoke are always our downfall.

All very well having 70% possession but if you don't create chances in the final third you will struggle to score and ultimately win games.

[becchio bear]

Definitely a red

WTF!!! Not a red. Not a yellow. He went down, didn't touch the Stoke guy, Stoke guy carried on running ffs

[HarryofOz]

A deserved win for Stoke. We had a couple of good spells but overall didn't play well enough, and more importantly conceded more goals than we scored.

[Cjay]

Teams like Stoke are always our downfall.

All very well having 70% possession but if you don't create chances in the final third you will struggle to score and ultimately win games.

We are to predictable, if you can stay narrow force us to cross and maintain your shape we really struggle to break teams down.

Theres no height to cross to, so we have to try and be Manchester City and pass our way through.

[Cjay]

but ALLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[whiteswan]

Thank You everyone for all your great commentating. (Didn't actually enjoy it though - not your fault of course)

[whiteswan]

WTF!!! Not a red. Not a yellow. He went down, didn't touch the Stoke guy, Stoke guy carried on running ffs

Is it one we can appeal?

[The Subhuman]

WTF!!! Not a red. Not a yellow. He went down, didn't touch the Stoke guy, Stoke guy carried on running ffs

Agreed.

[Mick Jones shoulder]

As good as we were last week, thought we looked sluggish until the goal today . Improved slightly after that 70% possession today but little end product.

Jannson sending off looked questionable but hey ho sure we will be better next time out was always worried about this one.

[gessa]

We had a bad day but it doesn't make us a bad team, all this talk of not making the auto's,get a grip folks, it will be hard but no harder than it will be for any of the other teams around us, Stoke as never been a happy hunting ground for us, plus we don't cope well with big physical teams.

[gessa]

Is it one we can appeal?

No, 2 yellows but tbh, we'd be wasting our time if it was a straight red.

[Cjay]

Jansson lost the race, slipped and caught Afobe, bit harsh but cant deny the little touch on Afobe allowed BPF to get there first imo.

[becchio bear]

A deserved win for Stoke. We had a couple of good spells but overall didn't play well enough, and more importantly conceded more goals than we scored.

Was it f**k. In the shed with you young man

[Cjay]

We had a bad day but it doesn't make us a bad team, all this talk of not making the auto's,get a grip folks, it will be hard but no harder than it will be for any of the other teams around us, Stoke as never been a happy hunting ground for us, plus we don't cope well with big physical teams.

3 defeats in 4 though, thats not something you can just dismiss.

We were so poor today though, the manner of the defeat bothers me more then the defeat, defensively awful offensively devoid of ideas.