Championship thread 24/25! (18 Viewers)

[SkyblueTexan]

C'mon Leeds get 3-4 more goals.

 

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[David O'Day]

C'mon Leeds get 3-4 more goals.

5 or 6 will do me

 

[David O'Day]

so this idea that leeds will be on the beach once they got promoted?

 

[covcity4life]

5th place here we come!

 

[Londonccfcfan]

Leeds in a different stratosphere to The rest of the league. Joy to watch. They should be 5 nil up.

 

[shmmeee]

Leeds in a different stratosphere to The rest of the league. Joy to watch. They should be 5 nil up.

Would really be criminal if Burnleynpip them to the title

 

[pusbccfc]

not really been the times I've been there

Apologies, I meant players. They were pretty quiet last season.

Still think it looks great on telly. Bit more of an occasion. Same with people standing at Wembley.

 

[EalingSB]

Off to research. Didn’t know Laudrup or De Boer were brothers. Both world class?

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[Nick]

Bristol City player hurts his ankle, he holds his face and ref stops the game.

 

[robbiethemole]

Leeds always have a man free

 

[Londonccfcfan]

Would really be criminal if Burnleynpip them to the title

The pace is frightening and their quickest player Dan James injured!!!

Stick my neck out they should survive. Best team i seen in the championship in a long time.

 

[robbiethemole]

Bristol City player hurts his ankle, he holds his face and ref stops the game.

James Bell again the twat

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

If we don’t go up I would like James Bell to go up and take his special brand of refereeing with him.

 

[shepardo01]

Bristol are packing all 10 outfield players into their defensive third.
Happy to let Leeds have it 40 yards out.

 

[SkyblueTexan]

Leeds always have a man free

Let's sign him up then...lol

 

[wingy]

In the doldrums, I'm not expecting a goal fest from here and it doesn't matter anyway.

 

[Nuskyblue]

Pure ultra coached positionalism as per Pep's teams seems to be on it's way out. You can still win like if you have the best players in ther league but City don't at the moment.

Even Barca under Flick have moved away from this and added a lot more verticality to their player and quickened up the tempo a lot.

The current "hipster" football coaching philosophy is "Bilbaoball", tactics influenced by Bilbao's traditional play that ahs allowed a team who only sign players from the Basque country to be successful.

Iraola is one of the these coaches and it is much more directly, faster and more transitional.

The Bielsa Bilbao team were a great watch with a young Munain and I think Lloriente up top.

 

[Nuskyblue]

I wonder if a team went full crazy gang wimbeldon or John Becks Cambridge how they would do today, basically bang the ball upfront to at least one giant centre forward and sometimes two and put pressure on the opposition defence, I know a lot of centre backs just flop over like Lati and get lots of free kicks.

Ever watched Luton play mate?

 

[David O'Day]

Farke is always wearing that big jacket, bet it hums.

 

[Johhny Blue]

In the doldrums, I'm not expecting a goal fest from here and it doesn't matter anyway.

3-0. Could make a difference

 

[Lamps]

It’s nothing to do with negotiating contracts - the reason parachute payments were sanctioned was the 3 team relegation - the pay off is the protection those clubs get which doesn’t exist in the Football League.

Yes it was. So are you trying to say it will never happen or they will never try and make it happen?

 

[blunted]

Go back further. The Brazil side of the late 60s/early 70s and the Dutch ‘total football’ side of the 70s both played football that was entertaining and largely successful.

Pep sucked the fun out of it, but as I said it hopefully looks like outrageous concepts like going for goal more directly and at higher tempo are coming back in fashion.

I have never seen players strike a ball from set pieces like that Dutch team. How on earth did they get such accuracy and more importantly velocity?

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Why so many yellow shirts in the crowd, it does look quite effective mixed with the white. I saw a coach load waiting for their bus near to the Holyhead pub this afternoon,most of them wearing yellow.

 

[Johhny Blue]

I have never seen players strike a ball from set pieces like that Dutch team. How on earth did they get such accuracy and more importantly velocity?

The “Defensive Revolution” started with the England ‘66 World Cup squad

 

[SkyblueTexan]

Outstanding goalkeeping by the Bristol keeper. Collins would have conceded at least 3 by now under that kind of pressure.

 

[Para1140]

What a difference a decent keeper makes

 

[SBAndy]

No doubt their squad is miles ahead in terms of quality, but the way and pace at which they attack is great. So much more enjoyable than Burnley.

 

[mmttww]

'kinnell! that looks absolutely brutal by the stats.

 

[SBAndy]

Good grief imagine Ellis Simms trying to play a pass like that!

 

[Captain Dart]

2-0 briliant defence beating pass and cool finish.

 

[EalingSB]

Good grief imagine Ellis Simms trying to play a pass like that!

Hell of an assist. Fair play to Piroe.

 

[Para1140]

One more please

 

[thekidfromstrettoncamp]

What a pass that was

 

[Wyken Sky Blue]

Why are there lots of Norwich fans at Elland Road tonight?

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[fernandopartridge]

Leeds work really hard off the ball, probably helps when you've had most possession but they're hunting it down as soon as they lose it. I think that's definitely something we've got to improve on.