DDB220 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:47 am
Damn missed all the fun in this thread.
I think Roberts came on yesterday with instructions to unbalance ( personally I am getting bored of hearing this word, what does it actually mean ? …… attack effectively.) surely there is a better translation, this is used too often and explains nothing.
It was clear in the passage of play leading up to where he lost possession his only thought was to try and set Harrison free, completely blind / oblivious to the reality that trying to make a pass that wasn’t on could lead to squandered possession and potential danger. It is this lack of intelligence on the pitch, which I see on a more than regular basis that holds him back.
If he was going to overcome this and learn through experience it would have happened by now. The odd glimmer of light is not enough to justify his constant selection as either a starter or sub.
I don’t blame him for the goal, too many additional variables after he lost possession but his general clumsiness and running around like a 10 year old having had too much pop helped Newcastle assert their authority for the last 15 mins.
Overall the manner of Bielsa’s subs was the reason we lost.
The last 20 minutes were awful. I'm a fan who stays in the ground until the Leeds players take their plaudits from our fans. I said to my mates around me Newcastle are going to nick this, the writing was on the wall as we were so disjointed.
You could feel the concern as soon as Roberts came on, like many of our players he tries to do too much rather than playing a simple ball, then Llorente clatters into their attacker (may have been St Maximin), the wall was poor as it usually is making it easy for Shelvey to curl ball round only for our young talented keeper to sadly mess up!
We don't lose to screamers in general, the goals we concede are usually messy are created byour own making in our error littered game.
Then we immediately decide to throw Gelhardt on through sheer desperation I guess, as we weren't prepared to send on our best opportunist kid at 0-0 when the game was crying out for something different long before the barcode's goal. It took six whole minutes to get Joffy on as we deliberated with his substitution because Newcastle had a couple of corners & by that time we couldn't retain the ball or clear our lines, that's how feeble we had become after dominating the game. So our kid had fifteen minutes to rescue us yet again, you know at least several of those final minutes are going to be wasted by the opposition ffs., sorry to be critical but this type of action is not fair on our young starlet.
Also by the time Joe came on, Raphinha & Harrison our creative threat had run themselves ragged for 80 minutes & have little left in the tank to give!
Sorry Marcelo, I didn't understand your thinking one bit on what was a miserable afternoon for our fans.
At least the Toon army had a good day.
