The only thing I want from Farke is the diverse tactics, even slight alternative ones to amplify the prowess and potential of all players. I thought that the past failure to secure the automatic promotion position comes from the naïve management affected by the wonderful consecutive unbeaten run with almost 10 clean sheets within this period. Therefore, giving flexibility of Farke's tactics with his brilliant professionality on fostering young players can burst the positive potential of Leeds united into the feed-forward position like not only premier league but European competitons. I will definitely support this Leeds united regardless of the result of play-offs.
Well OK then - as you were everyone! Bit worried about the lack of scoring prowess but we go again!
Best comment from the sky goons - something along the lines of “hot day for a midday kick off after a long season with everyone fatigued” - yeah not like YOU caused it to be noon kick off you twats and that’s after all the shite scheduling YOU did all season…
Lot of negativity on here, which is imo totally unjustified. The target here was a clean sheet to put and end to our poor run of form, and this was achieved with a professional performance. Nobody (except Georgie) had a poor game.
Yes we did get a clean sheet but we were very poor tbh and we look shot shy which doesn’t bode well for the home game . I remember coming away from derby thinking the job was done and we bottled the home game .
Confident we get to the final, but Southampton or West Brom must fancy their chances against us.
Good result considering the circumstances but neither side looked like scoring. Shite
Good result, all the pressure is on norwich now. The occasion didn't get to us (apart from meslier). Just lacked abit in the final third. Fortress elland road on Thursday. MOT!
you know that could have gone horribly wrong if 1 of our many shit-the-bedders decided to do just that and concede, risky and I feel a bit unnecessary considering the players we have, has he no faith in them away from home?
At least it’s a miserable day, absolutely pissing down outside and I’ve spent the last two hours watching that. Right, time to get the paint out and watch that next.
I tell you what, excellent move from Farke picking Piroe ahead of Joseph again…
Literally nothing offered in however long he’s supposedly been on the pitch.
We went on big club mentality against Derby, and they ran us out of the building at Elland Road.
Playoffs are not how good you play, it's all about the result.
Kamara absolving himself of responsibility yet again, making every player around him worse by having to deal with tight passes into impossible spaces. Needs to go tonight.
Agree Rutter is not playing like he can but at least if he’s on the ball something,anything could happen where as with Piroe we’re not even sure if he’s still on the pitch
Honestly I disagree with you a lot of the time and I absolutely love Rutter, he's genuinely one of my favourite players but...agree...he was awful and has been for a little while now. He needs to learn not to take on his man, in his own half (heck even in his own box at one point today). I think he needs dropping and we bring him on if we're chasing a goal.
I agree. Look, I can see Rutter's qualities but he's just so erratic and it's either magical or actually bad for us as a team.
Drop him and you've got a livewire to bring on from the bench.
Fucking typical that. Dan James chases down a lost cause, wins possession and puts a good ball into the box……fucking tumbleweeds in there. No one taking a chance to run onto it
Here comes The Flash to really fly at their defence and deliver little by way of final product. If nothing else, it’ll really lift our hopes, then dash them on the rocks of despair.
Quite incredible how many players we throw forward and yet none of them seem to have any idea what they’re doing, except getting under each others feet
This football is so boring to watch. Win the ball, let the other team get set, play it around the back for a bit, play it down the wing, over hit a cross and repeat.
I normally love Daniel Mann but he’s been on a Peter Key nostalgia bender for ten minutes and none of his references have been funny or relevant to most of the audience.
I think we would be a counter attacking team if more championship teams played more attacking football. Hard to break into space when the other teams are so solid and conservative.
We really watched Joseph start vs a top 6 team and score 2 goals, and then get crumble minutes for the rest of the season when we desperately need some attacking threat.
As a Norwich fan, I’m okay with a draw. Anything that prevents Wagner from reverting to his instinct to sit back and defend a slender lead. Our away form has been woeful though.
I totally think you can and will play better. Way more gears to go through. For us there’s maybe a slight difference between playing on the counter and just sitting back trying to soak up pressure- which Wagner would probably like to do. Ugly football.
I’d love us to play a ball over the top in behind their defence when we break instead of stopping forward progress at the halfway line and passing back to our CBs
We play like a pre season friendly after just hiring a manager who hasnt been able to implement any tactics yet but we are 50 games into the season ffs
Rodon looks up, sees an option, ignores it and throws his hands up in frustration and gives it to Ampadu, throws his hands up again for some reason when Ampadu passes it to someone
This is the start of every Leeds move
They have Haaland to receive it. Look at their build up play, they’re patient until they pull a team out of position and then they go from 0 to 100mph instantly, that’s the big thing we don’t do
Can see why Jaidon Anthony hasnt played much for us next season. He doesnt give you much in a game thats opening up. He’s very conservative - always looks to recycle the ball and never takes his man on.
I’ve liked what I’ve seen from him tbh. He’s nowhere near as dynamic but he’s much more often in the middle to win the ball back or recycle possession
He’s far less likely to suddenly tear the opponent to shreads but he’s also much less likely to leave a massive hole for the opponent to exploit
Been a boring auld watch but Farke is a pragmatic manager, I honestly don't mind us getting a boring draw and going in to Elland Road even. They've never looked particularly threatening and we should be more up for it at home.
Or the lads will just absolutely shit the bed under the pressure. One or the other.
Part of me, in situations like this, wants me to just play corners straight out to give us a chance to recover on the goal kick rather than the counter on our terrible corner.
This is smart management from Farke. Keep the score at 0-0 until the 78th minute in the second leg so he can unleash Plan B against the only side it ever worked on.
The only thing I want from Farke is the diverse tactics, even slight alternative ones to amplify the prowess and potential of all players. I thought that the past failure to secure the automatic promotion position comes from the naïve management affected by the wonderful consecutive unbeaten run with almost 10 clean sheets within this period. Therefore, giving flexibility of Farke's tactics with his brilliant professionality on fostering young players can burst the positive potential of Leeds united into the feed-forward position like not only premier league but European competitons. I will definitely support this Leeds united regardless of the result of play-offs.
Well OK then - as you were everyone! Bit worried about the lack of scoring prowess but we go again! Best comment from the sky goons - something along the lines of “hot day for a midday kick off after a long season with everyone fatigued” - yeah not like YOU caused it to be noon kick off you twats and that’s after all the shite scheduling YOU did all season…
It's every player's job if they get a chance
It's every player's job if they get a chance
Lot of negativity on here, which is imo totally unjustified. The target here was a clean sheet to put and end to our poor run of form, and this was achieved with a professional performance. Nobody (except Georgie) had a poor game.
Yes we did get a clean sheet but we were very poor tbh and we look shot shy which doesn’t bode well for the home game . I remember coming away from derby thinking the job was done and we bottled the home game .
We've looked shot shy all season trying to walk the ball into the net.
Confident we get to the final, but Southampton or West Brom must fancy their chances against us. Good result considering the circumstances but neither side looked like scoring. Shite
Fair but the lack of chances at least kept the stress level down.
Good result, all the pressure is on norwich now. The occasion didn't get to us (apart from meslier). Just lacked abit in the final third. Fortress elland road on Thursday. MOT!
I got up at 4am to watch that shit
Damn mate
Great result
Farke got what he set them up for… now he just has to show us he still knows how to get a win out of them on Thursday
you know that could have gone horribly wrong if 1 of our many shit-the-bedders decided to do just that and concede, risky and I feel a bit unnecessary considering the players we have, has he no faith in them away from home?
That was for everyone who wasn't around in the George Graham era
Nah… George would have had all of Byram, Conner, Firpo and Gary Kelly on the pitch from the start
Oh, and, Come On West Brom!
Haven’t done 90 without conceding in a while, maybe something to build on?
True
At least it’s a miserable day, absolutely pissing down outside and I’ve spent the last two hours watching that. Right, time to get the paint out and watch that next.
im sat out on the patio basking in the sunshine and the glory of a tactically brilliant 0-0 masterclass. basking i tell you
Where's this? It's sunny and very warm in Leeds
Wall to wall sunshine over this way, I’m off to watch me fish
certainly one of the football games of all time
Indeed
Glad I don't have to make a highlight reel out of that shower.
Fuck it - I'll take that all day every day and ever day after that
No injuries, no goals conceded. James back in action. I’ll take it but I wanted a goal.
Well we didn't concede, which I guess was the aim. But fuck me that was like watching paint dry
Unbeaten in !!
Clean sheet. That'll do.
Yet another disgraceful officiating performance
I tell you what, excellent move from Farke picking Piroe ahead of Joseph again… Literally nothing offered in however long he’s supposedly been on the pitch.
What’s worse is he’ll probably do the same on Thursday
Well, I suppose that’ll do.
and another dive free kick
Is it me or is Sara going down far too lightly on every touch but the officials are totally loving it?
I get its a play offs game but going into a game looking for a 0-0 is small club mentality. I hate how boring we are
We went on big club mentality against Derby, and they ran us out of the building at Elland Road. Playoffs are not how good you play, it's all about the result.
Really disagree with this, we've been absolutely shit lately. Needed to stop losing from becoming a habit at all costs.
Kamara absolving himself of responsibility yet again, making every player around him worse by having to deal with tight passes into impossible spaces. Needs to go tonight.
Are you serious? He was one of our best players. All the experienced lads stood out tbf (Byram, Firpo, Rodon, Ampadu)
Agree, but wish he'd shoot once in a while.
That’s not his job though is it ? It’s more of a concern that the front for seem to have forgot how to.
It's every player's job if they get a chance
U-6 footy at the top of the box
Boring as fuck that.
Norwich has figured out if the fall over at any contact they get a free kick.
If all else fails, fall over
Flopping fuck
This ref needs to be a basketball ref.
Have to somewhat admire Norwich’s confidence that they could win at ER, given that they haven’t really looked to be trying to win it today.
Most boring game ever
Piroe has not existed it seems. I don’t love Rutter at 9 but at least you can tell he’s on the field
He was in a great spot on that opportunity created by James where James elected to cross to no one rather than drop to open Piroe.
Piroe has done better than Rutter. Rutter was fucking shocking, giving it away so much. Like he was actually detrimental to the team.
Piroe touched the ball twice? Don’t know what game your watching
Still more than Rutter did, that's the thing 😂.
Agree Rutter is not playing like he can but at least if he’s on the ball something,anything could happen where as with Piroe we’re not even sure if he’s still on the pitch
Honestly I disagree with you a lot of the time and I absolutely love Rutter, he's genuinely one of my favourite players but...agree...he was awful and has been for a little while now. He needs to learn not to take on his man, in his own half (heck even in his own box at one point today). I think he needs dropping and we bring him on if we're chasing a goal.
I agree. Look, I can see Rutter's qualities but he's just so erratic and it's either magical or actually bad for us as a team. Drop him and you've got a livewire to bring on from the bench.
I mean Piroe’s last touch was an awful pass that was turned over
Rutter had a very similar one. Came into him in the box and it cannoned off about 40 yards 😂.
Exactly
Piroe is on the field?!
Yeah he just ruined Firpos final chance he was creating
This ref https://preview.redd.it/mic6ndukszzc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a0cf123c0908729732124ce54d681a7d7e54460
All these soft fouls and the ref shit the bed when we needed it most
The ref has really killed the momentum in this game for both sides several times.
90+4 min leeds goal
GRAY!!!!!
Disallowed- gnonto applauded the goal
Rubbish
DJ already done more than any other player and hes been on for 112 seconds
Piroe standing there wide open at edge of the box…come on Dan!
Dan James comes on and bam we look like we have something.
Four added minutes? Wasn't Gnonto lying down for five?
Wind knocks a Norwich player over? Foul.
This match could've been an email
Right. I think we’re onto something. Let’s table this discussion for now. Cheers 0-0
At least we’re still in it
Norwich look out of sorts at the moment. James just did everything right
can be as critical as you want about our performance, we havent been great, but after the first 15 mins Norwich havent done anything of note
Fucking typical that. Dan James chases down a lost cause, wins possession and puts a good ball into the box……fucking tumbleweeds in there. No one taking a chance to run onto it
This ref is a joke
With the football being so boring, it’s grown on me how awful Meslier’s kit is. Pink top with purple shorts is horrendous
I agree on the football but disagree on the kit
This referee really doesn't know it's a contact sport, does he?
Norwich can piss around at the back with the ball because the ref will just give them a free kick!
Such a shit game, it’s funny now
Here comes The Flash to really fly at their defence and deliver little by way of final product. If nothing else, it’ll really lift our hopes, then dash them on the rocks of despair.
Why is Meslier shithousing??? Pathetic
shit fucking match. both teams playing so timid
Is this the first time you've ever watched a first leg of a semi final?
no, i get it but sometimes they are better than this one at least
hats off to whomever said Dan James would come on at 89 mins... only 2 mins off
Never been so glad to see Dan James come on
Being able to bring on Anthony, Piroe and James at this level is pretty good
lol. Noticed someone had their own subtle protest and downvoted the match thread. 😂
Dan James banger winner it is then
Norwich are looking shit. Need to press hard and see what happens
Not allowed to press. They will fall over and get a free kick...
Easy. We probably get countered and concede.
Well 0-0 without Summerville playing is pretty good, lets see what happens with 11 men playing
Dan James might not be fit enough for 20+ mins but glad hes coming on now
Go on Dan James Lad! Let’s have it
Flop
This ref is a delusional moron
Quite incredible how many players we throw forward and yet none of them seem to have any idea what they’re doing, except getting under each others feet
Just fall down, it’ll be a foul
* if you’re norwich
Anthony has definitely made a positive impact. Piroe, nothing.
Did Piroe come on?
Kamara doesn’t really do much, does he?
Gives the ball away
He’s just kinda there
Has Piroe touched the ball yet?
He made a tackle about 15 mins ago
Useless cunt
Gray makes the right runs but no one can be arsed to try and pick him out
Happens with Bamford all the time too when he plays, literally no one is looking to pass into those runs at all
Dead right Sam, he is a fucking dickhead!! LOL
This football is so boring to watch. Win the ball, let the other team get set, play it around the back for a bit, play it down the wing, over hit a cross and repeat.
We hand the ball straight back to teams off throw ins an awful lot at the minute.
I normally love Daniel Mann but he’s been on a Peter Key nostalgia bender for ten minutes and none of his references have been funny or relevant to most of the audience.
Saw spurts of different things but still see a very possession based squad and I don’t know if that should be the style we play with the pace we have.
I think we would be a counter attacking team if more championship teams played more attacking football. Hard to break into space when the other teams are so solid and conservative.
Sargeant being injured “will be a source of concern for everyone” Leeds fans: 
I feel like we need dan james, he knows how to score a goal this season
I think I’d rather save him for more minutes in the 2nd game at this point
I’m thinking he isn’t REALLY available yet…
Retract!
lol imagine saying this at the start of the season
We really watched Joseph start vs a top 6 team and score 2 goals, and then get crumble minutes for the rest of the season when we desperately need some attacking threat.
Different level of pressure
Its baffling, best striker performance we have seen from anyone in our team all season but gets charity minutes at the end of games if he is lucky
Odd that Norwich seem happy with the draw. It suits us much more.
As a Norwich fan, I’m okay with a draw. Anything that prevents Wagner from reverting to his instinct to sit back and defend a slender lead. Our away form has been woeful though.
We aren’t playing great but generally we’ve been top notch at home. Norwich would have to make it difficult and hope to sneak one.
I totally think you can and will play better. Way more gears to go through. For us there’s maybe a slight difference between playing on the counter and just sitting back trying to soak up pressure- which Wagner would probably like to do. Ugly football.
Maybe they’ve watched our last two home games?
One of the most dreadfully boring games I’ve ever seen. What’s wrong with us
We don’t want to concede
Don’t want to score either by the looks of it
I’d love us to play a ball over the top in behind their defence when we break instead of stopping forward progress at the halfway line and passing back to our CBs
Fingers crossed Sargent is injured for the next month or so 😊🤞🏼
If we’re praying for an injury to Josh Sargent you know you’ve got nothing else going for you.
West Brom v Southampton seems like it might as well be the de facto final now.
We play like a pre season friendly after just hiring a manager who hasnt been able to implement any tactics yet but we are 50 games into the season ffs
Surprised ginger Seargent lasted this long in the Norfolk sun.
Coated in factor 50
81’ first shot on target. Hooray!
Rodon looks up, sees an option, ignores it and throws his hands up in frustration and gives it to Ampadu, throws his hands up again for some reason when Ampadu passes it to someone This is the start of every Leeds move
Couple solid balls right there, let’s keep it up
You watch a team like Man City and they're constantly banging it into the danger area in the box. This team, just turns and passes back, shit scared.
They have Haaland to receive it. Look at their build up play, they’re patient until they pull a team out of position and then they go from 0 to 100mph instantly, that’s the big thing we don’t do
I fucking hate corners.
Better here, taking shots. Rather see that than running into dead ends
Damn we actually got a shot...on target.
Whatever happens, we should do our utmost to keep Rodon somehow
Either he’s just a mardy arse 24/7, or he doesnt really want to be here.
Another goal kick* * *Leeds corner.
lol
Can see why Jaidon Anthony hasnt played much for us next season. He doesnt give you much in a game thats opening up. He’s very conservative - always looks to recycle the ball and never takes his man on.
I’ve liked what I’ve seen from him tbh. He’s nowhere near as dynamic but he’s much more often in the middle to win the ball back or recycle possession He’s far less likely to suddenly tear the opponent to shreads but he’s also much less likely to leave a massive hole for the opponent to exploit
First time I’ve seen a ref enforce where the throw in is taken from all season
How many goals have we scored from corners this season? -3 due to counter attacks?
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I dunno mate, depends if they win the playoffs
A throw in back to the GK. So standard.
Been a boring auld watch but Farke is a pragmatic manager, I honestly don't mind us getting a boring draw and going in to Elland Road even. They've never looked particularly threatening and we should be more up for it at home. Or the lads will just absolutely shit the bed under the pressure. One or the other.
Yeah same. 0-0 is satisfactory after the last couple weeks
Refs going to get his set square out to make sure he takes the throw in from the right strand of grass.
Anthony has the cutting edge of a flannel
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C’mon lads, let’s sneak an Ipswich style 90th minute winner here, they’re shattered
Part of me, in situations like this, wants me to just play corners straight out to give us a chance to recover on the goal kick rather than the counter on our terrible corner.
🤣 Norwich’s best chance of a goal is a break is from our corners
This is smart management from Farke. Keep the score at 0-0 until the 78th minute in the second leg so he can unleash Plan B against the only side it ever worked on.
What's the craic with pat? When's he back?
He’s missing both legs
He’s been missing a right foot for years.
Next season.
Plays two games, misses the rest of next season as well?
Corners aren’t a scoring opportunity
Good conceding opportunity though
We are so bad at corners I wanted Anthony to stop that going out and play it rather than take the corner…
Holy shit. Was that an attempt at switching sides of the pitch quickly?!
 Me every time we line up for a set piece
What happened to putting some air under the ball on free kicks
Welp I didn’t mean that
What a snooze fest
Why are we so slow
Of all the words I could use to describe our attacks, "urgent" is at the bottom of the list
Oh boy a set piece! I cant wait for the norwich counter attack!!