After the slight hiccup in the League Cup on Tuesday night it's on to the one that really counts...…………….
9 players rested and a sell out crowd should do the job both Teams on the same points total , should be a cracking game
Venue...Elland Road...Date...31st August...Kick Off...19:45hrs
Team News
Leeds United
Leeds head coach Marcelo Bielsa is likely to revert to the side that saw off Norwich so convincingly last weekend when they come up against Middlesbrough in a top-of-the-table clash.
Bielsa made nine changes for the midweek Carabao Cup defeat by Preston, but is likely to return to the group of players who have started the Sky Bet Championship season so well. That leaves Pontus Jansson and Kalvin Phillips as the only two likely to retain their spots, with Kemar Roofe expected to return at the expense of Patrick Bamford - who faces his old side.
Izzy Brown has signed for the Whites on loan but is not expected to be fit for a couple of weeks, while Liam Cooper (hamstring) also remains injured.
Middlesbrough
Boro boss Tony Pulis has added Sam McQueen to his squad ahead of the game. The Southampton full-back will spend the rest of the season on loan at the Riverside Stadium.
In-form forward Martin Brathwaite could be on his way out of the club having asked to leave amid interest from Spain, meaning Jordan Hugill is likely to lead the line. Rudy Gestede is another who has been linked with a move away, but otherwise Pulis is likely to go back to a similar side to the one that beat West Brom last Friday.
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://www.usagoals.com/football.html Feel free to post better links if you can find any
(there's also streams on F/book and Twitter I believe )
Might be worthwhile searching "LUFC Live Streams" on YouTube
Match Facts
Leeds have won four of their last five home league matches against Middlesbrough, drawing the other - they won 2-1 last season.
Middlesbrough won 3-0 against Leeds in their last league meeting but haven't won back to back games against them since December 1979.
Marcelo Bielsa is the eighth manager in as many league matches to manage Leeds against Middlesbrough, a run stretching back to February 2014 (McDermott, Hockaday, Redfearn, Rosler, Evans, Christiansen and Heckingbottom are the previous seven).
Middlesbrough's last away league visit to Elland Road against Leeds on a Friday was on Christmas Day in 1936 - they lost 5-0.
Leeds have made their best ever start to a second-tier season, winning 13 points from a possible 15, while Middlesbrough have equalled their best points return in this division set back in 1994-95 (13 pts).
Pablo Hernández has been directly involved in more Championship goals in 2018 than any other player at the club (6 goals, 7 assists).
Top of the table clash then, with Boro winning on Tuesday night they'll be fancying their chances, but they'll not be the first team to do that this season
Tough game certainly not going to be easy but i think we'll nick it 2-0 with the Fans making the difference, Saiz and Roofey to do the honours
Come Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds!!!
MOT
Can we go Live Please Admins
Once again i'm on Night Shift so you'll have to update as and when necessary
Leeds Utd v Middlesbrough Matchday Thread
posted on 31/8/18
I thought they were fair comments els, we don’t have deep squad and apart from bamford whose going to win us game from bench, Dallas?
Also interesting about whether bielsa will listen. Philips earlier this week said they’d trained to deal with aerial but nitbthat notheted by it, I thought we coped well defensively with it but played it wrong tactically going forwards, especially from corners.
posted on 31/8/18
nitbthat notheted????
posted on 31/8/18
anybody think we’ve got more chance of beating boro at boro?
surely they’ve got to come out a bit more, leaving us more space to get inbetween that defence?
posted on 1/9/18
They weren't very good. Playing for throwins on the flanks so they could get a long throw in the box. A solid and professional performance with no exceptional players but a game plan executed well enough and a point I'd have taken at the start of the game.
Thought Harrison and Berardi were our best players.
posted on 1/9/18
Who was the official MOTM?
For me it was BPF.
posted on 1/9/18
Believe it or not Clayton.
posted on 1/9/18
sorry Jonty, he says nothing positive about us and nothing negative about boro, talks about Tony in one sentence and Bielsa the next.
posted on 1/9/18
Maid, nitbthat notheted = not that bothered......before Apple.
Els, whether he likes us or not is immaterial, he has a point re Biesla, you can view him as sticking to his principles (which I like to do) but he can also be viewed as not flexible enough to take on others views (which I think he can be as well).
Do you feel you saw us play an attacking style suited to beat tall defenders, I'm not sure I did, would have preferred something different with corners for example.
posted on 1/9/18
We wern't at the races last night,. Bielsa has told the players to take chances but most things we tried din't come off GREAT point
posted on 1/9/18
comment by Jonty (U4614)
posted 4 hours, 20 minutes ago
Maid, nitbthat notheted = not that bothered......before Apple.
Els, whether he likes us or not is immaterial, he has a point re Biesla, you can view him as sticking to his principles (which I like to do) but he can also be viewed as not flexible enough to take on others views (which I think he can be as well).
Do you feel you saw us play an attacking style suited to beat tall defenders, I'm not sure I did, would have preferred something different with corners for example.
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Think it's fairly flexible in your use of subs bringing off your defensive midfielder for a more attack minded one after 25 minutes, then making another change at half time.