Fulham - v - Leeds United ***Matchday Thread***

[Billyni]

Will somebody tell Alf to fu ck off, or shall i?

[Tichi1]

Fulham's next matches - Away to Luton, Home to Stoke, home to Reading, Away to Hull , home to Borogh, away to Charlton, Home to Huddersfield, Can see them getting a bucketfull of points out of that lot - we will need our nine point cushion I think!

[Tichi1]

Yep. If we hadnt collapsed last game we'd have won today.
Lost our impetus, cast a doubt within our team and given the oppositons a boost.
The effect of that game cant be underestimated.

I think the soft penalty fecked us up, don't think last week had any bearing on todays performance TBH

[BelfastAndy]

What happened to Pablo?

[OldWhiteTaff]

What happened to Pablo?

Hamstring apparently, so could be a week or two, could be a month or two

Some strange substitutions today, I can kind of understand Alioski for Pablo, and putting Dallas into centre mid (although I'm not convinced that Klich and Dallas in the centre gives us enough attacking guile). But Nketiah for Costa and Stevens for Ayling seemed strange to me, especially as in the first half most of our best work came down the right, and all game our left side was pretty anonymous today - I thought Harrison had his least effective game today for a while.

[OldWhiteTaff]

Fulham's next matches - Away to Luton, Home to Stoke, home to Reading, Away to Hull , home to Borogh, away to Charlton, Home to Huddersfield, Can see them getting a bucketfull of points out of that lot - we will need our nine point cushion I think!

But you just don't know. In this league I'd say that's not an easy set of games, Luton, Reading, Hull, Charlton, Hudds - all can give anyone a tough game just now, Boro are starting to pick up, and even Stoke aren't the push-overs they were at the start of the season. I'd be amazed if Fulham won more than four of those.

[Rev72]

Just seen their penalty again..fark me..the lad who went down should be ashamed of himself..blatant cheating.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Just back from the game . When Pablo went offf we seemed suddenly to have no composure and too many passes went astray in the first half - Phillips, Ayling and Alioski being particular culprits.

Deffo a pen - White pushed him and the ref happened to be watching bar that we had all the real chances in the first half but never got going.

Fulham though are a quality team and it was a proper decent game of football. Not sure how the effort at the end stayed out but a point would have been fair when were not playing that fluently.

Subs all made sense at the game. Costa was not very effective and at the end he wanted pace and width so Stevens who did alright. Some lads in from of us were trying to get a genius song going to the strains of the Bielsa he comes From Argentina song ... something like 1 2. 3 4 we’ve got Jordan Stevens who only bets on evens .......

Caught up with some Fulham fans in the pub post game and they weren’t sure where that performance came from ( we know teams tend to perform against us).

Quality moment at half time. Alan Clarke was being presented as an ex player to the Fulham fans who politely and reservedly applauded when he came the the away end it was hard to hear yourself think with the reception he got from us. He stayed for a while giving the Leeds salute and his classic scoring celebration back. Brilliant upstaging if the Fulham event!

We weren’t great today but always looked like getting a point - still 3 games clear of 3rd - 6 points from the next two games and we will be fine

[UbiqueLUFC33]

Just back from the game . When Pablo went offf we seemed suddenly to have no composure and too many passes went astray in the first half - Phillips, Ayling and Alioski being particular culprits.

Deffo a pen - White pushed him and the ref happened to be watching bar that we had all the real chances in the first half but never got going.

Fulham though are a quality team and it was a proper decent game of football. Not sure how the effort at the end stayed out but a point would have been fair when were not playing that fluently.

Subs all made sense at the game. Costa was not very effective and at the end he wanted pace and width so Stevens who did alright. Some lads in from of us were trying to get a genius song going to the strains of the Bielsa he comes From Argentina song ... something like 1 2. 3 4 we’ve got Jordan Stevens who only bets on evens .......

Caught up with some Fulham fans in the pub post game and they weren’t sure where that performance came from ( we know teams tend to perform against us).

Quality moment at half time. Alan Clarke was being presented as an ex player to the Fulham fans who politely and reservedly applauded when he came the the away end it was hard to hear yourself think with the reception he got from us. He stayed for a while giving the Leeds salute and his classic scoring celebration back. Brilliant upstaging if the Fulham event!

We weren’t great today but always looked like getting a point - still 3 games clear of 3rd - 6 points from the next two games and we will be fine

Not sure I agree about the penalty - it looked very soft. Yes, we definitely gave the ball away far too easily and I thought White had his only poor game all season in that respect. He looked like he has started to believe his own PR and now thinks he is Franz Beckenbauer or Giorgio Chillini (which, by the way, he isn't). This also partly disproved the 'Bamford + Nketiah playing together will be dynamite theory' - noting that they did combine for our goal. We looked unusually sluggish and didn't press as we normally do. Ayling was back to his unpredictably, random self and could easily have been sent off for being stupid in between throwing himself to the ground every 5 minutes like the murder victim in a bad Am' Dram' production at the village hall.

On balance I think we deserved a point.

[Rev72]

Well if thats a penalty then the game is more fecked than I first thought!