Leeds United - v - Burnley ***Matchday Thread***

[norfolk white]

We may have won, and the 3 points are gratefully received, but that was truly awful, the ref was suberb.....for us, struik and Philips were immense, as was ayling, the rest were pants.

[ozleeds]

Geez bunch of whingers.Win and still whinge lol.
Played crap with so many injuries but we scraped a win this is not beautiful football Leeds should be ashamed.
Billy bad finish

[WTF11]

Geez bunch of whingers.Win and still whinge lol.
Played crap with so many injuries but we scraped a win this is not beautiful football Leeds should be ashamed.
Billy bad finish

WTF???? We can't/won't play like f00king Real Madrid, or Barca, or Liverpool, certainly not this season, but a win against a team that at least came at us and made a game of it, and where we weren't stellar, is precisely what we have to learn to do, because we sure as hell won't do what we did against Newcastle (nor against Scum). Prefer it if we made them look ordinary, but we didn't and STILL came away with 3 points and all the better for it.

[CalverleyBoy]

Bamford needs credit for his penalty take, we have missed more than enough in the past

[Orgoner]

They’re slagging the referee off big time on the idiot box here.

[cherrypie7]

They’re slagging the referee off big time on the idiot box here.

Even Rebecca Lowe is having a go. I guess her Crystal Palace team isn't doing so well. Anyway, the problem is the ref blew the whistle, and a couple of Leeds players did stop. So we will never know if burnley would have scored without the whistle. I thought 1-1 would have been a just result. We were unwatchably poor in the 2nd half. Didn't seem to connect on passes. Alioski and to a lesser extent Ayling spent slipping and falling. Why was the Elland road, pitch so cut up? West Ham playing, and their pitch looks pristine.

[Sniffer999]

Superb today from the lads. Battled and battled right to the end. Long injury list but we coped.
We play lovely football and get slaughtered, now we dig in and battle and get slaughtered ?!
No team in history can play well every game.
Surprised nobody has mentioned the pitch ? Horrendous playing surface. No pitches are like that anymore. A passing team are hugely affected whereas a long ball team with aggression are benefitted hugely. It isn’t the same for both sides in reality.
So well battled and an excellent 3 points given all the circumstances I say.
Pitch needs sorting ASAP

[UbiqueLUFC33]

To be brutally fair we got a few decisions today but it makes a nice change. Phillips, Ayling and Strujk all played really well. Meslier made some good saves but his distribution is utter toilet. Raphina had a good first half but fell away as we lost the impetus. I like Poveda and he always looks capable of creating something.We should have buried 2 or 3 more chances in the first half which would have made it a much more enjoyable 2nd half. One more positive is that we successfully defended 12 corners against a team of comparative giants without any of of our recognised centre backs.

[WTF11]

To be brutally fair we got a few decisions today but it makes a nice change. Phillips, Ayling and Strujk all played really well. Meslier made some good saves but his distribution is utter toilet. Raphina had a good first half but fell away as we lost the impetus. I like Poveda and he always looks capable of creating something.We should have buried 2 or 3 more chances in the first half which would have made it a much more enjoyable 2nd half. One more positive is that we successfully defended 12 corners against a team of comparative giants without any of of our recognised centre backs.

Spot on, with one minor disagreement, Mesliers distribution TODAY wasn't good, not to his usual standard (which is usually (IMHO) very good)

[klix]

Papers in the morning leeds 1 burnley 0
End of 3 points that's all matters
Now to WBA