Leeds Utd v Sheffield Utd Match Thread

[leedsalex]

0-1 ..get ready for the playoffs lads.

You never know . Eight games left.

[Cjay]

So so deflated.

Cooper returned to his old season form and we didnt take our chances.

Sane as the Norwich game.

Sheffield united had a bit of luck, defended well and everything that could go wrong for ys did.

And Bielsa bringing on Douglas was absolutely stupid.

2 weeks to dwell, great

[White Riot]

Rank bad result, got beat by a team that just came to rough us up and hoped for 0-0.

Very unjust result, but yet again we failed to take our chances.

Still 8 games to go and we're only a point behind them.

They mugged us today - w**kers

[SelmaBamaMan]

I was learning Fixing To Die Rag before this match. Think I'll get it down now.

[HarryofOz]

Same old story - don't score when you have all the chances and you leave yourself open to losing 1-0. Like so many of our performances this season - did we even have a shot on target?

None that count for the stats, though there was that block on Bamford's effort early on. Otherwise the closest we got was hitting the post by Roberts.

[Cjay]

Also how much damage have they allowed Jansson to do to his knee.

Just wasnt our day.

[BGwhite]

Forget top 2. SU aren't going anywhere but up. Their defence is immense and hardly any team will score against them the rest of the season. Leeds definitely need to win the last 8 to stand a chance now. Not working the keeper with all the chances is simply inexcusable and will eventually be the difference ...playoffs it is I'm afraid. BPF back in as keeper doesn't help . This game showed up Leeds as being 3rd best but now they have to show bottle and stay there !

[SG90]

Also how much damage have they allowed Jansson to do to his knee.

Just wasnt our day.

Just hasn't been our season pal. As I said, the gods are against us too just makes it even harder.

[BGwhite]

One of those days when you outclass the opponent and lose ..Poor reffing hasn't helped

Outclassing means nothing, it's goals what win games , not near misses or possession of the ball for 60%.So tired of hearing how Leeds dominated but come away without the result.

[SG90]

This game showed up Leeds as being 3rd best but now they have to show bottle and stay there !

I don't agree with that at all. Down to ten men after 18 mins and it's a completely different game. They got all the luck and we got nothing.

[SG90]

Bad defending by Douglas again for the goal. He shouldn't have been on though anyway.

[The Subhuman]

Casilla - 7 - Good game, unlucky with the red for me and not at fault for the goal
Ayling - 8 - Was having a very good game when pulled off way too early..
Cooper - 3 - No idea where that came from, out of position too often, had a big hand in both their goals
PJ - 7 - Manful performance but missed a sitter for the equalizer and I think he needs to play a bit calmer
Alioski - 6/7 - So much better in mid than defence, love how he never gives up but probably with Harrison the most wasteful player on the pitch

Phillips - 3 - Sat too deep at time (We don't win when he does that) 2/3 badly missed tackles and the passing was off. Missed a tackle for the goal and the sending off incident
Klich - 8 - Sublime, no idea why he came off, outside of Pablo he was the only one creating
Hernandez - 10 - Best performance of the season from the maestro, pulled strings all game and the quality of passing was outstanding. You will not see a better game from a player on the losing team
Harrison - 5 - Some lovely skill always followed by zero end product. You cannot miss chances like his and hope to win
Roberts - 7 - Also missed chances but played better as a whole.

Bamford - 5 - Should have done better early, one paced so fairly easy to defend and completely disappeared as an attacking force after the 50th minute

Dallas - 4 - pointless sub
Douglas - 6 - Sweet left foot going forward, could have created something late but we'd stop making clever runs. Maybe should have tracked the runner for the goal but he's not that quick and there were others in better positions to do so
Clarke - 5 - Rusty, lacking early season confidence ..that should have been Shack.

MB got the subs wrong today imo, and we're now the favourites for the 1 seed in the playoffs. SU are just a physical team without much finesse, they got very lucky.

[Mick Jones shoulder]

Fail to convert you lose. Sheffield utd defended excellently. Would have put clark up against Baldock as stated previously

[Cjay]

Just hasn't been our season pal. As I said, the gods are against us too just makes it even harder.

Blades defended really well tbf, just everything that could go wrong for us did today.

Jansson injury, mistake causes the goal 2 mistakes from Cooper and Phillips cause Kiko to walk.

No luck in front of goal.

[SG90]

Clarke looked undercooked tbh. Would have brought Brown on before him though.

[SG90]

Just hope Rovrum are up for their game!

[SG90]

Blades defended really well tbf, just everything that could go wrong for us did today.

Jansson injury, mistake causes the goal 2 mistakes from Cooper and Phillips cause Kiko to walk.

No luck in front of goal.

Exactly the Jansson injury just shows our luck. Every bounce of the ball went their way. Ref bottling the red as per usual.

[The Subhuman]

Clarke looked undercooked tbh. Would have brought Brown on before him though.

Brown not on the bench

[SG90]

Brown not on the bench

Just sums it up as a pointless signing then!

[BGwhite]

Only 1 point behind. Norwich and Sheff Utd have done nothing to make me think that they will win all their games so it is up to us to start scoring again and win games.

SU have conceded 3 goals since January in the league, all in the same match after they were 3-0 up. That suggests to me that they will hardly drop any points and generally win every game because they TAKE THEIR CHANCE/S when they come along. Same as Norwich basically.