Tuesday Night trip to Wales for the Travelling Faithfull...........Now that's commitment
Venue....Cardiff City Stadium...Date..26th Sept...Kick Off.. 19:45hrs
Team News
Leeds United
Leeds defender Pontus Jansson will return to the squad after being left out for Saturday's home win against Ipswich. Jansson was rested as a precaution after missing the Carabao Cup win at Burnley due to a hamstring strain but could be back alongside Liam Cooper in central defence.
Head coach Thomas Christiansen has no new injury or suspension problems but may make changes, with fit-again on-loan Everton defender Matthew Pennington, Gaetano Berardi, Stuart Dallas and Kemar Roofe all in contention. Striker Caleb Ekuban, who recently had foot surgery, remains the only absentee.
Cardiff
Cardiff defender Sol Bamba is set to return against his former club Leeds as third hosts top in the Sky Bet Championship, live on Sky Sports Football.
Bamba was rested for the weekend win at Sunderland but is set to replace Bruno Manga for the visit of the league leaders. Full-back Lee Peltier should overcome a minor knock to return, while winger Junior Hoilett is also expected to start.
Omar Bogle will continue to deputise for virus victim Danny Ward on the bench if he fails to recover in time.
Links..............Sky Sports or...................
Audio... http://leedsunitedshirt.com/leeds-united-news-website/leeds-united-live-radio-streaming/ or http://m.ustream.tv/channel/k-s-sports
Video.........http://leedsunitedfc.co.uk/match-centre/ http://www.usagoals.com/football.html Feel free to post better links if you can find any (try Leeds pages on Facebook if you're on it)
Not sure if it's worth putting these links up anymore as the powers that be are blocking most streams
Match Facts
Since he left his job as Leeds boss in April 2013, Neil Warnock has won all three league meetings against his former side, including a 2-0 win at Elland Road last season with Cardiff.
Warnock's last two home Championship defeats on a Tuesday came as Leeds boss - he lost 7-3 to Nottingham Forest in March 2012 and 3-2 to Hull in September 2012, but hasn't lost any since (W6 D3).
None of Leeds' last 48 away matches in all competitions have ended goalless - should there be a goal in this game, it'd equal their second longest run without an away nil-nil in their history (49 games between November 2007 and August 2009).
The Whites have won six of their first nine league games of a season in the top two tiers of English football for the first time since 1999/2000 in the Premier League (also won six).
Tough game visiting old friends Colin, Sol Bamba and Lee Peltier and a Cardiff team who will go all out to take Top Spot from us, No excuses from TC and the Lads ......We Want This !!....1-2 Scoreline for me with Dallas and Roofey getting the goals
Over To You.................................................
Come Onnnnnnnnnnnnn Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds!!!
MOT
Can we go Live Please Admins
Congratulations to the Lasogga Family on the birth of their Daughter
I'm still on Nightshift so you can fend for yourselves Enjoy the Game
Leeds Utd v Cardiff City Matchday Thread
posted on 26/9/17
I choose to look at the positives
posted on 26/9/17
TC making too many changes. Why not just pick the best 11? Starting to look ordinary away from home. I'd pick an attacking team home and away. We look garbage with a defensive approach. And Pennington in for Cooper after that childish effort just on half time
posted on 26/9/17
Can take some positives from our second-half performance there .. Cardiff are good ( damm their eyes ) but we'll get over it. Pennington looks good.
posted on 26/9/17
We shuffled the pack & lost out to hoofball.
Pennington is awesome, needs to play every game.
posted on 26/9/17
Emotions running high tonight. I was really p*ssed after millwall... we got ran over by a bus there by a bunch of sunday league players. It was embarrassing. And that was with our 'first 11'. I'm not surprised he made some changes.
Tonight was just one of those games... we looked good for 20 mins, gave a soft goal away, and then looked rattled. It's football, we've won a few games we could have drawn this season, this is a game that changed on a goal, which is so often the case.
What is a worry is that we have a bunch of players who are light on the ball and lose a lot of possession when pressed/tightly marked. And we push players forward and are vulnerable to a quick break.
I'm disappointed but not as gutted as some by this. I didn't believe the hype with the great start and I don't think it's doom and gloom now.
posted on 26/9/17
Well said milky
posted on 26/9/17
Cardiff are average at best. We made them look better than they are through costly errors in defence. Cooper has done really well until tonight. What a silly challenge to make when already on a yellow. He does have this occasional calamity in him. Now misses one game. A bad day at the office - again!
posted on 26/9/17
We all hoped cooper had matured, but he just seems to have games where his head goes... he made a few footballing errors and some terrible errors of judgement tonight... you could see it coming.
He certainly opened the door wide open for Pennington today.
posted on 26/9/17
Klich slip was unfortunate and he takes 75% blame but Cooper the remaining 25%. Second goal was a good strike but Cooper allowed him the space to shoot by backing off. Third goal was inevitable when only playing 3 at the back. We were in trouble as soon as the ball was played out wide. Once we reverted to a back four they didn't really cause us any problems.
posted on 27/9/17
comment by Loidis-Norvegicus (U9680)
posted about 2 hours ago
I choose to look at the positives
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The ref blew the whistle?
Have I missed any more?