Leeds Utd v Everton Match Thread - Phillips and Firpo in, Koch and Rodrigo out

[John in Louisiana]

FT 2-2

[Mountain]

This thread is hilarious reading.

It seems like every player bar Phillips and Raphinha is awful and Bielsa is clueless.

You'd almost forget that Everton, a team with 3 times Leeds wage bill, won at ER last season...

[John in Louisiana]

Bamford dragged down in the end.

Should have been reviewed, at the very least.

[Irish Ian]

Take the point move on.

[SG90]

Happy with the point after going behind twice. But not good enough with defensively or attacking.

[SG90]

This thread is hilarious reading.

It seems like every player bar Phillips and Raphinha is awful and Bielsa is clueless.

You'd almost forget that Everton, a team with 3 times Leeds wage bill, won at ER last season...

They were crap then too. We gifted them the 3 points with poor defending.

Oh and we finished above them, so they're not all that.

[Mick Jones shoulder]

Point more than last season. Early days but christ we looked wide open.

[SG90]

I can't help but feel it was a wasted opportunity.

[John in Louisiana]

This thread is hilarious reading.

It seems like every player bar Phillips and Raphinha is awful and Bielsa is clueless.

You'd almost forget that Everton, a team with 3 times Leeds wage bill, won at ER last season...

Oh come on now.

Phillips and Raphinha are awful, too.

[HarryofOz]

Good to get that first point, especially coming back from behind twice.

Fair result.

[SG90]

Out the bottom 3 woop

[Cjay]

Point was probably fair but our possession to chance creation stats are poor, and we are far to wide open.

Its gone back to last season early doors, great for the neutral but its to kamikaze.

Struijk and Cooper as a pair dont work.

Dallas isnt the great midfielder he is made out to be, lots of endeavour but a lack of technical ability that you need in midfield (and actually is the reason he never made it as a winger lets be honest)

Harrison is Harrison and Raph is getting visibly frustrated imo.

Take the point but much work to be done on the training ground and transfer market

And got to say i am far from convinced by Firpo, cant be saying ah well he need a year to settle in, that isnt how transfers work at the elite level, you expect a level of performance immediately.

Good character to come back twice however but the problem is the teams structure was all over the place at times.

[Chilli D]

What a game, I'm exhausted.
Credit to them for coming back twice but we didn't test Pickford anywhere near enough and to be honest they looked more of a threat going forward than we did.
Great strike from Raphinha.
Sorry all you Cooper fans but he cannot defend without grappling and shirt pulling. I doubt it will be the last penalty he concedes this season.
A draw was a fair result based on chances created and balance of play.

[Johnboy1965]

Hard fought draw but defensively a shambles. Better finishing from Everton and we lose.

[Byebyegeegee]

All action game of football, breathless really and a draw was a fair outcome. I thought we did well to come from behind twice but we do look very suspect defensively at the moment. Oh well a point on the board - onwards and upwards hopefully.

[Mick Jones shoulder]

Hard fought draw but defensively a shambles. Better finishing from Everton and we lose.

Correct.

[SG90]

Dallas isnt the great midfielder he is made out to be, lots of endeavour but a lack of technical ability that you need in midfield (and actually is the reason he never made it as a winger lets be honest)

Dallas has energy and works hard, but you need creativity in midfield.

[Irish Ian]

Leeds need to give Meslier a pay rise, he is never going to get a clean sheet bonus with that rabble in front of him.

Three CBs is fine but we have a rookie in Struijk, a right back in Ayling and Liam " you need hands" Cooper.

It might work better when we get Koch and LLorente in there

Also Firpo looked ok out wide but when he had to come inside he was wrong footed.

[Cjay]

Hate to keep picking on him but Rodrigo not coming on over Roberts is a really bad sign for him.

Is Mb's faith in the record singing on the wane?

[Mick Jones shoulder]

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Splendid...