Middlesbrough v Leeds Utd Match Thread

[The Subhuman]

Probably

[weasel]

If we match Heckingbottoms reign from last season we'll finish with about 75 points.

Can't believe you are advocating sacking Bielsa and bringing Heckingbottom back....

[The Subhuman]

Bout time don't you think? This game last season was the Hecks first

[RcR]

With teams all beating each other and no1 running away with it I wouldn’t be surprised if the points this season for playoffs and automatic promotion are slightly different from other seasons .

[whiteswan]

Bout time don't you think? This game last season was the Hecks first

In with a shout for the Hibs job apparently. Fans aren't inspired with the thought of Heck as their manager

[BGwhite]

I think it will be a much lower pts total needed this year for autos and playoffs meaning many more teams will be involved right up to the end. Good chance that 85 ish pts will get automatic promotion. Only Leeds, Norwich and Sheffield can reach that figure or more by averaging 2 pts per game from the remaining fixtures which is very difficult.

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[weasel]

To be honest I think all our problems would suddenly clear up if we got an early goal and then went on to get a comfortable win. Apart from the Derby win it is a long time since our last comfortable win and several in our 7 match winning run were by the odd goal after we made it hard for ourselves. We haven't beaten a team by more than 1 goal since November (we beat Bristol City 2-0 but that was 0-0 with 20 minutes to go and Bristol had a man sent off early in the second half).

We won 4 of our first 5 matches by 2 or more goals. We have only won by more than 1 goal 4 times since then (26 matches). Every match seems to just be a battle and it seems almost that we are making it harder for ourselves than the opposition are by us not taking our chances and then gifting the opposition a goal out of nothing.

[White Riot]

Good defending from. Harrison tbh otherwise would have been two nil probanly. Battles well just got no quality

I'm one of his biggest critics, but got to admit he defended brilliantly there against two players and kept us in the game

[1964white]

King Kalvin justified his place in the team today, he shouldn't have to as he is a automatic starter for me, key to much of our excellent run up until December

'Yorkshire's Pirlo' walked our MOTM poll on the coach with 31 votes

[White Riot]

I'm one of his biggest critics, but got to admit he defended brilliantly there against two players and kept us in the game

Plua those two Boro supporters/commentators were so biased they gave Harrison no credit for such great defending, just said the two Boro players were unlucky - you gotta be kidding.

I had to go our right on the final whistle, jumped up in the air when we equalized

Fantastice result for us, but we do need to start playing better from the start, we're making it way too easy for teams by giving them a helping hand and confidence in the first half of every match.

I still think we can get automatic promotion and even win it, but Bielsa has to get us defending better and putting the chances away.

At least with this team they don't give in until the final whistle blows.

Lots of average form from our rivals so this still there for the taking.

Get in Leeds

[White Riot]

King Kalvin justified his place in the team today, he shouldn't have to as he is a automatic starter for me, key to much of our excellent run up until December

'Yorkshire's Pirlo' walked our MOTM poll on the coach with 31 votes

Yep, he gives us bite and determination to succeed. I'm really puzzled as to why so many of our players have hit a bad run of form?
e.g. Pablo??

Shackleton was excellent when he came on and must start against Swansea.

After the way this match went this was a massive result for us and should give the boys renewed confidence

[1964white]

I'm one of his biggest critics, but got to admit he defended brilliantly there against two players and kept us in the game

Headless chicken going forward

[White Riot]

I think it will be a much lower pts total needed this year for autos and playoffs meaning many more teams will be involved right up to the end. Good chance that 85 ish pts will get automatic promotion. Only Leeds, Norwich and Sheffield can reach that figure or more by averaging 2 pts per game from the remaining fixtures which is very difficult.

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You could be right BG. There are a lot of teams in with a shout, which illustrates how nobody has run off with it. If we can get our confidence back, start zipping it about, take our chances and defend well, then I honestly believe it is there for the taking as nobody is showing any consistency so far.

[White Riot]

Headless chicken going forward

Yeah, pretty much - we have Shackleton who should be starting every time ahead of guys like Harrison, and a few others who are bang out of form at the moment.

[White Riot]

Baggies 1-0 up at HT. I see big gob Charlie Adam isn't in Stoke's squad today. Lets hope Stoke can turn it around without the fat lazy tosser

[White Riot]

We should really get stuck into Swansea in midweek. I would love it if Dan James scores an own goal and McBurnie gets sent off

[1964white]

Yeah, pretty much - we have Shackleton who should be starting every time ahead of guys like Harrison, and a few others who are bang out of form at the moment.

We are carrying passengers with the selection of Ayling & Harrison both woeful, is it any wonder why we are not winning matches especially as other players are not in great form too.

[White Riot]

In with a shout for the Hibs job apparently. Fans aren't inspired with the thought of Heck as their manager

God help them, they'd be better off with Rab C Nesbitt

[The Subhuman]

Hope Heck gets the Hibs job, there's a decent coach there just needs to learn to manage.

[BGwhite]

You could be right BG. There are a lot of teams in with a shout, which illustrates how nobody has run off with it. If we can get our confidence back, start zipping it about, take our chances and defend well, then I honestly believe it is there for the taking as nobody is showing any consistency so far.

Think ur asking far too much of the team there Scoring the first goal has become vital for Leeds. It opens the game up for their style but for ages Leeds have rarely scored first which is making games so much harder especially when chances aren't taken .Leeds could possibly have won today had they converted good chances but this has become the achilles heel which may prevent automatic promotion.

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