Leeds Utd (H) 4:30pm 5th April Easter Sunday Eggsellent

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  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Soucek up next.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    2-2
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Leeds score
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Pablo up next
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    He misses (well, it's saved)
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Leeds have a chance to win it here
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    In off the post, Leeds win.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    As soon as the camera went to Pablo I thought the worst...
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    Not meant to be....Oh well.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Grr.
  • DJ HammerDJ Hammer
    You just knew that Pablo was going to miss. Well that’s as far as Leeds will go I would say.
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    Really hope they get drawn against City now.....
  • BarneyBarney
    Cant complain about that. Focus on the league now.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Worst possible outcome, we played 120 minutes (well, actually a lot more), don't go through, and have Wolves to play on Friday in a huge match.
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    I said to my wife that Pablo wouldn't score.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    He isn't a striker of the ball, although nor is Mavro and he is a great penalty taker so far. Bowens should have put the pressure on them and it was a poor effort for such a good striker of the ball.
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    Oh well… pleased we made a game of it - ironic that our two front players hit the worst penalties but thems the breaks.

    Hedrick did his bit and saved one giving us a chance but it was not to be
  • LukerzLukerz
    buffybegood said:

    Worst possible outcome, we played 120 minutes (well, actually a lot more), don't go through, and have Wolves to play on Friday in a huge match.

    Yep don’t take much from that other than can focus on the league, losing at home to a relegation rival is never a good thing
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    buffybegood said:

    Worst possible outcome, we played 120 minutes (well, actually a lot more), don't go through, and have Wolves to play on Friday in a huge match.

    Just hoping that some of the missing players return, we will certainly need to freshen it up......
  • LukerzLukerz
    Tbf we didn’t really have any penalty takers
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    buffybegood said:

    Worst possible outcome, we played 120 minutes (well, actually a lot more), don't go through, and have Wolves to play on Friday in a huge match.

    Not for me. Worst outcome was losing 2-0 having not looked great. Losing after showing loads of fight to haul ourselves back into it is alright. A lot more confidence to go into the Wolves game with.
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Fair play to Finlay, big effort from the players second half
  • PengemanPengeman
    Heartbroken, after a superb comeback. Played well in the second half, and with a bit of luck could have had couple of goals in the first half of extra time But it wasn't to be.
    Now need to beat Wolves on Friday.
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    Out of interest, why wasn't Wilson on the bench, is he injured or was just being rested...
  • ScotHammerScotHammer
    Good though that we rested at least 5 or 6 First choices for Friday.
  • alderzalderz
    I really enjoyed that, shame about the result but you can’t grumble too much when you’re 2-0 down in stoppage time. They showed a lot of guts, and that gives me confidence.
  • stevesteve
    Hope Leeds make the final ,Then they play us a week later .Might just work in our favour same as Arsenal reaching champions league final having already won the Premier
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited April 6
    I think it just gets challenging looking for positives. We’ve lost 18 out of 36 games this season. A GD of -21. That’s horrendous. We’ve been in the bottom three for over 90% of the season. We have won 1 of our last 7 after a good little bit of form (losing Pablo & then Summerville didn’t help to a successful 4-4-2 system). In that good bit of form, it only got us out of the bottom three for a maximum of 18 hours.

    This is not being pessimistic or negative. These are facts & the evidence in front of us. Yes, we did well to fight back yesterday & not give up, a solid mentality (Leeds were comfy before our first goal), & we should have won the game in extra time, but it’s just yet another defeat in a season littered with regular losses. This time, to a newly promoted side & one we are hoping we can try & ‘drag back into the mix’ (they already have 5 points on us with our GD).

    It just gets to the point where, even if the personality & mentality of the side is better (Disasi & Taty have clearly improved us), you just feel numb to the results. It’s not good enough & hasn’t been since August. I look at our remaining fixtures (even Arsenal, who will likely have won the league by then) & think ‘surely a club of West Ham’s stature can go unbeaten in these final 7 games’, but we know we probably won’t.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    We've lost 4 out of our last 14 games, 2 to our last 7 over 90 minutes. We don't have to go unbeaten in our last 7 games. I think that is a pessimistic and negative look at the situation.
    We were always in the game yesterday and generally on top in the second, half despite missing 3 of our regular back 5, plus Mav, and our match winner.

    Two other points.

    You don't win 5 times more for finishing 17th over winning the cup. You win over £4.4m in prize money if you win the cup as opposed to £10.7m for 17th place.

    Lot of media speculation over the 11 minutes added time. Well after 1 minute of the second half there was a 5 minute stop for an injury followed by a substitution then a triple substitution with I think 3 times trainers called onto the pitch. This is not to mention Leeds, or Farkes, roll about on the ground shenanigans. So I think 11 minutes was conservative.

    Other than that it was a good cup tie that we were unlucky not to win but showed good spirit.

    COYI ⚒
  • PengemanPengeman
    Still puzzled by why Nuno started the game with Bowen on the left and Traore on the right wing, and moved Fernandez to the number 10 position for the first-half. All played out of position and we had a poor first-half. In the second-half they reverted to the their more usual position and we had a better display.

    Why does Nuno do this? I remember, earlier in the season he played Scarles at right-back and that backfired too.
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