Welcome to the Matchday Thread and the visit of the villans to Elland Road, a trip I'm sure they'll be looking forward to
Best Wishes to Peter Lorimer, and also to a couple of Stalwarts on this board who have been fighting their own battles, they know who they are
Venue...Elland Road...Date...27th Feb...Kick Off...1730hrs
Team News
Leeds United
Leeds midfielder Mateusz Klich is a fitness doubt after appearing to hurt his back during the midweek win over Southampton.
Injured trio Kalvin Phillips, Rodrigo and Robin Koch will again miss out on Saturday.
Aston Villa
Jack Grealish remains unavailable for Aston Villa, with no time frame put on his return from a shin injury.
Defender Bjorn Engels has recovered from a back spasm and could be among the substitutes.
Links............…...Sky Sport ...…….……..or................
Video....... Hesgoal, usagoals Beinsports ? getting harder to find
(there's also streams on Social media I believe )
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
Leeds won the reverse fixture 3-0 and can do the league double over Aston Villa for the first time since 1975-76.
Villa have only won two of their past 17 away league games against Leeds, with those victories coming in January and December 2000.
Leeds United
Leeds can win three Premier League home games in a row for the first time since a run of five from April to August 2001. They have kept successive clean sheets at Elland Road.
The Whites are winless in all four home league matches this season against teams currently in the top half of the table (D1, L3). Villa are eighth.
There has not been a draw in any of their past 16 league fixtures: Leeds have won eight and lost eight.
Leeds have scored 43 league goals, their highest tally after 25 matches of a top-flight season since they won the title in 1991-92.
Illan Meslier can set an outright Premier League record of nine clean sheets by a goalkeeper before their 21st birthday; his is on 2 March.
Patrick Bamford has scored 13 Premier League goals this season, the joint-most by an English player alongside Harry Kane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Bamford has scored in all five of Leeds' home league wins this season. They have only taken two points from the seven games at Elland Road in which he hasn't scored.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa have won just one of their past six away league matches, in contrast to five victories in their opening six trips this season.
It's five defeats in nine Premier League games for Dean Smith's side in 2021 (W3, D1).
All but one of their 11 league victories this season has been earned with a clean sheet, but Villa have lost nine of the 11 matches in which they've conceded.
Villa have kept a league-high seven away clean sheets, one shy of equalling their club top-flight record.
They are attempting to win away against all three promoted teams in a top-flight season for the first time since 1980-81.
Since Villa returned to the top flight in 2019, they have lost 2-1 in all three Premier League fixtures without Jack Grealish.
Ollie Watkins has faced Leeds seven times without scoring - it's his longest wait for a goal against any league side.
That's it then, Kalvin still out for us, Girlish out for them kind of evens things up
We proved ourselves against this lot at Villa Park and hopefully we can do the same on our skid patch, 2-0 for me with Paddy and Ayling rattling the net 😲
Over to You ..................Predictions etc.......................................
Come Onnnnnnnnnnnnnn Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds!!!
MOT
Can we go Live Please Admins
Leeds Utd v Aston Villa Matchday Thread
posted on 27/2/21
comment by kernowekLeeds (U10930)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Lubo - We're Home! (U14008)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by kernowekLeeds (U10930)
posted less than a minute ago
Sadly lubo can be one of the deniers at times, will prob say pascal didn’t spend anytime at DM tonight.
Roberts was sub quality tonight. We were a bit better second half when pascal went off. Costa is an impact player nothing more. We are short in areas we need to be and often it’s these 3 who disappoint most.
Klich was out of sorts as well and his continual wasted shots over the bar don’t help.
Despite that, we are doing alright, but if we want to improve we need to address the above.
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No Struijk did play CDM today. Unlike the other day. I admire the balls on you to bring your own stupidity up as a stick to try and beat me with, though
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He spent time in the game the other night at DM. We were less effective when he was. I just wish we’d focus on developing him as a quality CB as I think he shines there.
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No he didn't.
posted on 27/2/21
LLorente would be far better suited to that role and on the evidence of tonight has the passing range and mobility to play that role with Struijk dropping back to centre back. At his last club he played CDM frequently by the way.
posted on 27/2/21
comment by McParlandTheGreat (U6150)
posted 15 minutes ago
Well lads, I did say you wouldn't score against us
Good game I thought. When we set out to keep a clean sheet, we usually can.
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Good game? Getting a goal through poor defending, combined with a bit of luck, and then parking the bus..
I hope I never view a Leeds game as "good" if that should be the other way around
posted on 27/2/21
comment by MaidinLeeds (U2464)
posted 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
What a frustrating game! Why does our player get a yellow card for being elbowed (Hernandez)??? and by Targett who should have been sent off as he made so many fouls after he’d been yellow carded. He pulled Bamford down in the penalty area when we were taking a corner kick at the end. Why was that not a penalty??
What a team of divers Villa are! All the replays showed our players had literally just touched them, not pushed or shoved, just touched and the Villa players were down on the floor and getting a free kick. I think their name “villains” is quite apt. Anyway, on to the next game when I hope Kalvin will be back and hopefully we can do better than today.
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Grealish has been coaching his team mates it seems
posted on 27/2/21
comment by Loidis-Norvegicus (U9680)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
comment by McParlandTheGreat (U6150)
posted 15 minutes ago
Well lads, I did say you wouldn't score against us
Good game I thought. When we set out to keep a clean sheet, we usually can.
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Good game? Getting a goal through poor defending, combined with a bit of luck, and then parking the bus..
I hope I never view a Leeds game as "good" if that should be the other way around
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It was a tactical masterclass by Dean Smith using his quality squad to achieve the desired result; 3 points. It's the way serious top football teams play.
I'm afraid your pub team of honest cloggers wasn't at the races.You need to get better players to be where we are. Maybe you'll do that, like we did.
posted on 27/2/21
comment by McParlandTheGreat (U6150)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by Loidis-Norvegicus (U9680)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
comment by McParlandTheGreat (U6150)
posted 15 minutes ago
Well lads, I did say you wouldn't score against us
Good game I thought. When we set out to keep a clean sheet, we usually can.
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Good game? Getting a goal through poor defending, combined with a bit of luck, and then parking the bus..
I hope I never view a Leeds game as "good" if that should be the other way around
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It was a tactical masterclass by Dean Smith using his quality squad to achieve the desired result; 3 points. It's the way serious top football teams play.
I'm afraid your pub team of honest cloggers wasn't at the races.You need to get better players to be where we are. Maybe you'll do that, like we did.
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You weren’t bragging like this last season at this point. You stayed up by the skin of your teeth. We probably will buy decent players in the summer, but our lads have performed admirably this season because it has been down to our championship players, due to injuries to 3 out of the 4 signings we made pre-season.
posted on 27/2/21
comment by MaidinLeeds (U2464)
posted 7 minutes ago
You weren’t bragging like this last season at this point. You stayed up by the skin of your teeth. We probably will buy decent players in the summer, but our lads have performed admirably this season because it has been down to our championship players, due to injuries to 3 out of the 4 signings we made pre-season.
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Totally agree. Nearly all promoted teams have problems bridging the gap to the PL. Last season we tried to solve it by buying better players and it took the season for them to get going; we were nearly relegated but if we hadn't bought them we would have been relegated. This season the same now more experienced players plus a few good signings have improved us a lot.
I think you're doing well for a promoted team. But like us you need better players to progress.
posted on 28/2/21
well done villa stifled us, worthy 3 pts, no complaints we just didn't turn up again............move on, wet spam next
posted on 28/2/21
comment by McParlandTheGreat (U6150)
posted 10 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by Loidis-Norvegicus (U9680)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
comment by McParlandTheGreat (U6150)
posted 15 minutes ago
Well lads, I did say you wouldn't score against us
Good game I thought. When we set out to keep a clean sheet, we usually can.
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Good game? Getting a goal through poor defending, combined with a bit of luck, and then parking the bus..
I hope I never view a Leeds game as "good" if that should be the other way around
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It was a tactical masterclass by Dean Smith using his quality squad to achieve the desired result; 3 points. It's the way serious top football teams play.
I'm afraid your pub team of honest cloggers wasn't at the races.You need to get better players to be where we are. Maybe you'll do that, like we did.
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masterclass? oh dear me
posted on 28/2/21
"McParlandTheGreat (U6150)
posted 1 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by MaidinLeeds (U2464)
posted 7 minutes ago
You weren’t bragging like this last season at this point. You stayed up by the skin of your teeth. We probably will buy decent players in the summer, but our lads have performed admirably this season because it has been down to our championship players, due to injuries to 3 out of the 4 signings we made pre-season.
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Totally agree. Nearly all promoted teams have problems bridging the gap to the PL. Last season we tried to solve it by buying better players and it took the season for them to get going; we were nearly relegated but if we hadn't bought them we would have been relegated. This season the same now more experienced players plus a few good signings have improved us a lot.
I think you're doing well for a promoted team. But like us you need better players to progress."
I know its been mentioned lots of times around here that our team is apart from 4 newbies a Champinoship team, so, 2 places in front of us, how good is your team as far as Premier League teams go?..
We'll be alright and we'll have new players this time next season, but have to admit an x-Bielsa player for you's was great last night!..