Leeds United - v - Arsenal ***Matchday Thread***

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Way things are going our side will be full of the academy - U23 lads!

At this rate the tea boy will get a game

[Tichi1]

Amazing how games are being cancelled due to 4 or 5 cases of Covid - not necessarily to first team players either and here we are with only about half a dozen first teamers available the rest out injured and one suspended

Its a ****ing joke - Southampton for example have a 40 year old third choice goalie + another 5 first teamers out through injury - but game called off with Covid, - Everyone else gets a couple of weeks to rest injured players, and we play3 of the top 4 in 7 days with 9 or 10 out injured!

Travesty

[UbiqueLUFC33]

Amazing how games are being cancelled due to 4 or 5 cases of Covid - not necessarily to first team players either and here we are with only about half a dozen first teamers available the rest out injured and one suspended

Its a ****ing joke - Southampton for example have a 40 year old third choice goalie + another 5 first teamers out through injury - but game called off with Covid, - Everyone else gets a couple of weeks to rest injured players, and we play3 of the top 4 in 7 days with 9 or 10 out injured!

Travesty

You make a fair point. Maybe time for some creative reporting of test results. Of course, it will all be academic when our youth team put 4 past the Gooners later!

[cherrypie7]

Amazing how games are being cancelled due to 4 or 5 cases of Covid - not necessarily to first team players either and here we are with only about half a dozen first teamers available the rest out injured and one suspended

Its a ****ing joke - Southampton for example have a 40 year old third choice goalie + another 5 first teamers out through injury - but game called off with Covid, - Everyone else gets a couple of weeks to rest injured players, and we play3 of the top 4 in 7 days with 9 or 10 out injured!

Travesty

Couldn't agree more. Its not just the unfairness but the infuriating fact that clubs who have not been as hypervigilant about keeping players and staff safe from covid are "rewarded" while Leeds with Bielsa who we are absolutely sure is super paranoid vigilant about keeping everyone covid free is "penalized". Its disgusting.

[Tichi1]

They will all be delighted if this run of games and results eventually ends up with us going down.
You could tell when Gerard was moaning last night that he didn't fancy it today - and then lo and behold their game gets called off this morning shock horror - I expect a couple of tomorrows remaining games to get chopped later too.
sickening

[joellufcprice]

I wouldn't be so bothered about all these injuries if it was against Liverpool but this is genuinely a game I feel we can get a draw and maybe sneak a win out of so losing nearly a full starting 11 of senior players when other teams are getting games called off for 4/5 COVID cases is ridiculous.

[Tichi1]

Meslier, Dallas, Llorente, Raphinia, Ayling, Harrison, Klitch - Only regular first teamers available today - When fully fit Kotch too

Bamford, Philips, Rodrigo, Cooper, Firpo, Shackleton, James, Struijk all missing

How many other prem teams could field a team without complaint missing so many regulars?

[WTF11]

Meslier, Dallas, Llorente, Raphinia, Ayling, Harrison, Klitch - Only regular first teamers available today - When fully fit Kotch too

Bamford, Philips, Rodrigo, Cooper, Firpo, Shackleton, James, Struijk all missing

How many other prem teams could field a team without complaint missing so many regulars?

You missed Forshaw (who has surprised everyone, including me, with how well he has fitted and and contributed to the 1st team).

Not sure we're fielding any side "without complaint", but we suffer more than most because we run with a stupidly thin squad, partly because the great god Bielsa likes it that way and partly because Orta couldn't find quality players if his life depended on it.

Anyway, nothing the club can do about this or any other game (other than arrange for players to go out and exchange bodily fluids of all kinds with those infected with Covid?)

[Rev72]

A 6 pointer this match for me - odds are stacked but we have to simply get the win by hook or crook!

C'mon Leeds.

[Rev72]

Just seen our team and bench - Arsenal will have too much for us tonight I think - hoping for the best and obviously going to have to get pissed!

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MOT