***Official Lapps match thread - City v Dirty Leeds***

[Nexus_Canary 1,206]

In other news, Celtic really taking it to Dortmund 🤣

[king canary 8,736]

7 points from the last 9, 8 goals scored, pretty happy with that overall.

[Fuzzar 1,842]

We had our moments, but they're a good team at this level. 

Happy to take a draw. 

[cambridgeshire canary 7,781]

Dont think many could say that's a bad result

[S_81 1,088]

Good point. Shame we didn’t take the game to them more until the end though. 

[TheGunnShow 7,363]

I'll take that against a team who'll be up there, injuries permitting.

[Ulfotto 793]

Good result. If anything I think we are closer to them in terms of quality than we were last season.

[pete 368]

Stevenage 1 Wrexham 0, Louis Thompson with the winner.

[Branston Pickle 4,132]

I suppose we’d settle for 1-1, worked hard and kept them largely at arm’s length but didn’t really create enough ourselves.  We don’t seem to ‘do’ clean sheets…

[PurpleCanary 6,367]

Leeds were oddly passive towards the end.

[Ken Hairy 4,272]

Got to happy with a point, Leeds had a lot of that second half although disappointing that we defended so well but then conceded so easily.

Can anyone who was sitting slightly closer to the Gnonto incident tell me if we got away with one there? Looked a penalty to me.

[Satriales 990]

Decent point. We looked a bit sloppy with passing at times. Leeds looked dangerous but overall, not a bad result even at home. 

[paddycanary 578]

Will take a hard-earned point.

Onwards and upwards! Decent form too.

[Jim Smith 2,578]

Fair result. Decent ish performance. I think we were too passive/defensive for spells and perhaps lacked a little bit of belief in our ability to get on the ball and dominate but I liked the way we finished the game and I felt we always carried a threat. 

[mastoola 203]

1 minute ago, Ken Hairy said:

Got to happy with a point, Leeds had a lot of that second half although disappointing that we defended so well but then conceded so easily.

Can anyone who was sitting slightly closer to the Gnonto incident tell me if we got away with one there? Looked a penalty to me.

It did but so was the handball a few minutes later which was given to us.

[king canary 8,736]

2 minutes ago, Branston Pickle said:

I suppose we’d settle for 1-1, worked hard and kept them largely at arm’s length but didn’t really create enough ourselves.  We don’t seem to ‘do’ clean sheets…

Feels like we seem panicky from set pieces. I don't know what the cause is but Gunn looks really uncertain on corners and free kicks and very rarely looks to come out and claim anything which is breeding some uncertainty. The corner that nearly went straight in v Watford is a good example.

[daz 131]

Didn't quite look the same once we lost cordoba he was a rock. Taken a draw tho, Oscar didn't look as good as sub. 

Edited October 1 by daz

[Google Bot 3,922]

Really encouraging that was, if we cut out the mistakes we could really be a threat when gaining back possession as we don't dawdle.  It's so good to see players getting the ball and moving it up the field, right from the back with Gunn.

Under Wagner we just became so hesitant.

[king canary 8,736]

Just now, daz said:

Didn't quite look the same once we lost cordoba he was a rock. Taken a draw tho 

I think it was half losing Cordoba and half losing the option of Doyle stepping out of defence as a passing option from left back.

[Midlands Yellow 4,682]

On reflection it’s a good point. We played too conservative 2nd half (can’t comment 1st half) but stifled them in the last 15 minutes with some limited attacking play at the end. Beat Hull and it’s all good going into another dreaded International break. 

 

 

[lake district canary 4,813]

23 minutes ago, canarydan23 said:

Nunez off?!

That. Is. Absolutely. Batsh*t. Crazy.

Dean Smith levels there. If he's not carrying a knock Thorup needs a brain scan.

It was a good decision. Gordon and Forson gave us fresh and very quick legs on that side of the pitch, which helped slow Leeds down in the last few minutes.

[Herman 11,131]

15 minutes ago, Fuzzar said:

We had our moments, but they're a good team at this level. 

Happy to take a draw. 

 

14 minutes ago, TheGunnShow said:

I'll take that against a team who'll be up there, injuries permitting.

Yep and yep. 👍👍

[canarydan23 4,749]

7 minutes ago, lake district canary said:

It was a good decision. Gordon and Forson gave us fresh and very quick legs on that side of the pitch, which helped slow Leeds down in the last few minutes.

It really wasn't. He could have achieved that by taking off McLean rather than our comfortably best player tonight. 

[Grumpy 147]

We were second best for most of the game and can think ourselves lucky we came away with a point.

We gave their players with pace to much room to progress and they were getting the ball through the channels too easily.

Certainly not an easy watch but Leeds are one of the teams that are favourites for top finish.

Aside from Doyle the rest of the new intake have failed to stamp any real consistency in their game,even Forson who had a very good first outing has not produced anything like that since.

[ron obvious 1,710]

3 minutes ago, lake district canary said:

It was a good decision. Gordon and Forson gave us fresh and very quick legs on that side of the pitch, which helped slow Leeds down in the last few minutes.

Thought Forson seems to have lost his mojo. Looked nervy & misplaced his passes. Gordon didn't do a lot.

One of the main differences for me was that Leeds have a lot of players with Nunez type energy levels. I think we're still not fit enough over the 90 minutes; Borja probably closest but he gets fouled relentlessly. I'm not surprised he loses it occasionally.

[Branston Pickle 4,132]

3 minutes ago, daz said:

Didn't quite look the same once we lost cordoba he was a rock. Taken a draw tho, Oscar didn't look as good as sub. 

Pretty much agree - Cordoba has been very good, and will be a big miss if he’s out for long.  I was a little worried by Fisher going to l-b (having seen Stevenage where he wasn’t at his best) but he did a pretty decent job - a great little player picked up for a steal.

We do need to start to get a few more clean sheets - like it or not, hard-fought 1-0s at home are often the difference between top 6 and mid-table. 

 

[AJ 1,357]

I think with Cordoba still on the pitch we may have won but I think a draw is still a good result. I thought we'd struggle with the shake up of the back 4 but for a few lapses (McLean losing his man for the goal and Duffy just about getting away with one wild clearance) we still looked solid in the second half. Fisher has certainly developed nicely with three very solid performances in a row now, surely one of the first names on the team sheet at the moment. 

[Ken Hairy 4,272]

18 minutes ago, mastoola said:

It did but so was the handball a few minutes later which was given to us.

Think the handball would have been a soft one, his arm was down, but if there was VAR then you just don't know what they would or wouldn't give 

[Robert Ketts Yellow Army 34]

Oscar was disappointing tonight 

[Ken Hairy 4,272]

I also thought Gordon looked lively when he came in too, at a time when we needed fresh legs