2 good wins v Elche and Sociedad with perfomance improving.
Wednesday's is V Moanco at ER
It will be too cold for a big turnout but I would expect 20K+
Monaco are fondly remembered by LUFC fans for the hat-trick Yeboah banged in at Stade Louis II in the UEFA Cup.
Ex Liverpool player, Minamino, is in their ranks and they also have Mo Kamara, the prolific Wissam Ben Yedderand and the Russian Aleksandr Golovin amongst others.
They are managed by Philippe Clement so I would expect them to play an attacking brand of football.
Cannot see JM risking players tonight so would like him to go for:
Robles
Rasmus Llorente Cooper Pascal
Forshaw Rojo
Aaronsen Greenwood Harrison
Rodrigo
Drameh on for Rasmus after 60 mins
Adams on for Forshaw after 60 min
Gyabi for Roja after 60 mins
Ayling on for Llorente after 60 mins
Hjelde on for Cooper after 75 mins (goes to LB with Pascal moving to CB)
Gnonto on for Aaronsen after 75 mins
Jospeh on for Rodrigo after 75 mins
Perkins on for Harrison after 75 mins
Firpo, Joffy, Bamford, Cry, Jimmy, Koch, Iceman, KK, Gray not seen on the grass in training
Result not so important as long as we dont get drubbed but performance is vital.
Makes me wonder what our plans are with Koch & even more so with Cresswell. Club must rate him, but has not convinced me at all.
In his first season he had a decent spell, coinciding with us as a team being on good run when the teams who faced us had their minds on other things and or took the foot of the pedal.
Suppose the pace & tempo/all action of the Premiership doesn't suit his game. His injury proneness doesn't help either.
Anyway long contract, not sure about the wages, a while back in the YEP I read it was something like 55k pw!? Admit that sounded very high to me.
I really rated Llorente when he first came to us with an international pedigree for Spain and put mistakes down to him getting adjusted to England and the Prem.... how long should I wait til he's adjusted?
Great news for him though and he'll now be paid circa 40k pw instead of 25(?) 👍💵💵💵💵👍....
We need to get llorente as far away from our team as possible, for a so called international (Spanish one at that) the guy is SH1T€. Yes if a defender makes a mistake it can be costly but jezzzzzzzzzzzz this fella is a walking disaster. Bring back Cresswell from millscum, cooper, Pascal, Koch (not gone on him either) HJelde and Bill, thats 6 players to cover 2 positions and at least show the younger members of the squad that there is a pathway to the 1st team.
If the local U12 schoolboys team defended like that last night you would be staring at the coach and wonder what the fck does he do at training
After calming down, we have a very good keeper, Tyler Adams is a very good holding player, Sinesterra, Aaronson and Summerville are excellent ahead of him and Gnonto is supposedly looking better every game.... sort our fkn defence out and we have half a chance of being a good team!!
Our defence has been a nightmare for years and we're so good going forward purely because we know we have to score 2/3 to have any chance in games....
We have 4 CBs VERY similar in ability and ALL with mistakes in them.... we STILL don't know our best pairing after 2 seasons!!
I know a few players are out tonight but out of the starting X1, I can only see Aaronson as a DEFINITE starter....
A few of the rest are good enough but maybe not all in the same starting X1.... just a sprinkling with another 4 GUARANTEED PROVEN QUALITY around them as I don't think the youngsters have proved themselves yet.
Tough balance between getting in new players and not giving our youngsters a chance but ultimately, we NEED to stay up!!
We concede a couple on the counter - same old story
2-4 Monaco Joffy with a pen
Full Time now
1-4 Monaco
Think I need to give up watching!
1-3 Monaco
1-2 Monaco
Llorente on for Koch for 2nd Half
Koch, Aaronson and Rasmus our standouts in first half.1-1
1-1 now
Koch 1-0 Leeds
Header from Roca corner!
Joffy, Firpo, Koch and Llorente all seen in the Open training session
Come on LEEDS I will be home in time to watch it it’s on iptv if you have such a thing am told
£3.49 on LUTV
Christ I'll be glad when the season starts again. I can get back to fully worrying about relegation then instead of just now and again. I reckon after citeh and newc I will be panicking.
Quality MDT BB and keep us updated if it's on LUTV.... I should hopefully be able to get a stream.
I don't know anyone famous from Monaco but I actually lived there about 15yrs ago.... it was only for one day in a hotel though.
2-1 Little Willy brace.... 👍⚽
Is this our last proper friendly before Citeh?