Nottingham Forest 4-2 Leeds United (1st Jan 2019)

	4 - 2 Clarke, Alioski Phillips
Nottingham Forest Nottingham Forest	4 - 2 Clarke, Alioski Phillips	Leeds United Leeds United

Tuesday 1st January 2019

Championship

City Ground

29,530

Marcelo Bielsa

Line Up		Nat	Match Events
	Peacock-Farrell, Bailey Goalkeeper
	Ayling, Luke Defender
	Jansson, Pontus Defender
	Phillips, Kalvin Midfielder
	Douglas, Barry Defender
	Forshaw, Adam Midfielder
	Harrison, Jack Midfielder
	Hernandez, Pablo Midfielder
	Klich, Mateusz Midfielder
	Alioski, Ezgjan Defender
	Roofe, Kemar Forward

Subs		Nat	Match Events
	Clarke, Jack Midfielder
	Roberts, Tyler Forward
	Huffer, Will Goalkeeper		Unused Sub
	Baker, Lewis Midfielder		Unused Sub
	Davis, Leif Defender		Unused Sub
	Shackleton, Jamie Midfielder		Unused Sub
	Halme, Aapo Defender		Unused Sub

	References
	LEEDSTATS: Leeds United Season 2018/2019
	Sheridan Dictates: Season Statistics 2018-19
	Leeds United Programme Guide: Season 2018/19

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The Subhuman wrote on 02 Jan 2019 05:55 pm

I've always said Cooper would walk into 80% of championship teams and start and be good. That could be higher now

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The Subhuman wrote on 02 Jan 2019 05:54 pm

weasel wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:26 pm The point about Douglas is extremely valid as he is probably being hampered due to Cooper being out and the knock on effect with Phillips not only not as good at centreback but then not doing the protecting job allowing Douglas and Ayling to go forward - might also be effecting Ayling.

I fancy MB sees this as a chance to further educate KP about the defensive side of things - don't forget he played him at centreback in some of the friendlies. As a long term plan this is great as it will benefit KP and we all need to stop seeing things game by game, every team has a wobble in the championship and crikey even Man City had a wobble lately losing to Crystal Palace and Leicester. We have had a wobble and WBA and Norwich have had one at the same time too. The only team not wobbing is Sheff Utd and they are similar to us in that their manager is getting the best out of average players, Billy Sharp a prime example.

I don't think there is too much wrong with the team that having Cooper back won't fix. It makes us stronger defensively and when KP returns from his ban we hopefully have the back 4 in place and he can sit in front of it again allowing Cooper, PJ, Ayling and Douglas to get forward whenever they want. The attacking side of things was superb yesterday -admittedly could have had a couple more goals but we were creating really decent chances. We could easily have had 4 or 5 goals despite playing with 10 men.

Again, spot on post.

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Cjay wrote on 02 Jan 2019 05:37 pm

dezzy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:07 pm Phillips isn’t as strong as Cooper at CB and forshaw isn’t as good as Phillips in the CDM role, it has a knock on effect throughout the team, Douglas hasn’t played well since Cooper is out as he is trying to do too much, which leads to mistakes, it has worked well for us though, apart from the last two games, so can’t conplain too much.

Agreed.

The strength of the squad means that certain players cant be replaced.

Cooper (i loathe to say that as i think he will revert to type eventually) but he has been very good largely with Jansson and Phillips.

Championship players are pretty limited, they need familiarity, once you disrupt that accidents happen.

It hasnt worked imo, 1 clean sheet in 6, 11 goals conceded, its not worked and hopefully the Phillips at cb experiment will be over now.

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weasel wrote on 02 Jan 2019 05:26 pm

dezzy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:07 pm Phillips isn’t as strong as Cooper at CB and forshaw isn’t as good as Phillips in the CDM role, it has a knock on effect throughout the team, Douglas hasn’t played well since Cooper is out as he is trying to do too much, which leads to mistakes, it has worked well for us though, apart from the last two games, so can’t complain too much.

The point about Douglas is extremely valid as he is probably being hampered due to Cooper being out and the knock on effect with Phillips not only not as good at centreback but then not doing the protecting job allowing Douglas and Ayling to go forward - might also be effecting Ayling.

I fancy MB sees this as a chance to further educate KP about the defensive side of things - don't forget he played him at centreback in some of the friendlies. As a long term plan this is great as it will benefit KP and we all need to stop seeing things game by game, every team has a wobble in the championship and crikey even Man City had a wobble lately losing to Crystal Palace and Leicester. We have had a wobble and WBA and Norwich have had one at the same time too. The only team not wobbing is Sheff Utd and they are similar to us in that their manager is getting the best out of average players, Billy Sharp a prime example.

I don't think there is too much wrong with the team that having Cooper back won't fix. It makes us stronger defensively and when KP returns from his ban we hopefully have the back 4 in place and he can sit in front of it again allowing Cooper, PJ, Ayling and Douglas to get forward whenever they want. The attacking side of things was superb yesterday -admittedly could have had a couple more goals but we were creating really decent chances. We could easily have had 4 or 5 goals despite playing with 10 men.

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dezzy wrote on 02 Jan 2019 05:10 pm

Fairly disappointed we haven’t had a keeper announced by now tbh, I would have hoped for that to be signed sealed and delivered by now considering Blackman has long left the club and BPF form has dipped over the past month.

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