With 2 wins and a draw in our last 3 games, 42 points on the board
WE ARE SAFE AND WILL BE PLAYING IN THE PL 2021/22
This fixture will be our toughest this season imo and in a way is a free hit, nobody will expect us to get anything from this game and id say even the bookmakers will have city -2 goals on the handicap.
This will be the 106th Game between these two sides with Kick Off @ 12:30 Saturday morning, so set those alarm clocks early, Leeds have won 42, Drawn 18 & Lost 45 and in the premier league era played 15 Leeds won 6, Drawn 5 & Lost 4 with Leeds having scored 19 goals and conceded 16 in them 15 games but all of us on here are too well aware this Man City side is nothing like what we have played in the past (apart for last October game 1-1 Draw).
Current Form
Man City P5 - Won 4 Lost 1
Scoring 14 Conceding 4
Clean Sheets 2
Leeds P5 - Won 2 Draw 1 Lost 2
Scoring 4 Conceding 5
Clean Sheets 1
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The gulf in playing squads, financial status between the two Clubs is like chalk and cheese. But its 11 v 11 and with this game sandwiched between Man City's CL Q/Final games against Dortmund, i'm hoping Pep will rest KDB & Dias in particular, eventhough as i say they have many a world class player to takeover and will want to show pep they should on the CL team.
Despite struggling at times against Leicester last time out, all the signs seem to point to a Man City win here. The Citizens have lost just one of their last 31 Premier League games against newly-promoted sides (Norwich City last season). Guardiola is also unbeaten in his three managerial meetings with Bielsa to date, winning two and drawing the other. Still, given how much emphasis both managers place upon attack, I expect this to be a free-flowing affair with plenty of goals.
Possible Starting 11's
Leeds XI: Meslier, Ayling, Koch, Cooper, Dallas, Phillips, Klich, Costa, Roberts, Alioski, Bamford
Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Laporte, Mendy, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Foden, Mahrez, Sterling, Torres
Not forgetting the obligatory
Here's hoping Bull can remain in the hotseat for the visit to ER of loserpool but its a tall order
Heart 2-2
Head 3 Nil them😪
Not sure if any of ye saw the Chelsea/Porto game last night..
But very early on first 15mins??? Pepe jumped for a ball (arms up) and caught Havertz with an elbow to the head.
Now how are defenders suppose to jump? Arms down by their sides?? but thats not the point again if you listen back to ex-referees/ex-footballers last Saturday on the tv the vast majority were saying either excessive force or endangering a fellow professional.
So please explain to me how an elbow to the head of an opponent isnt endangering a fellow professional!!!!!
Dont get me wrong i dont think pepe should have been punished he won the ball in the air fairly and squarely, the ref didnt dish out any card, didnt even go over to talk to him and VAR didnt look at the incident either. So where is the consistency? how can someone be sent off for endangering an opponent on a Saturday in one game of football and another not even get a talking to (never mind a card) on a Tuesday night??
Is it because of the teams involved? does it go by who the players are? no matter what way both of those are no reason to apply any rule, they are the laws of the game not "laws of the game that apply to some".
Im sure there have been hundreds of these types of these big team "injustices" all across Europe this season but what can be done about it??
What i can see happening is a major incident like this happening in a big game (cup, towards the end of a league campaign) a really big game for a "small" Club a huge decision goes against them and the coach removes the players from the pitch. Only then will the spotlight really shine on the officials and their in consistency in applying the laws of the game will be discussed / thrashed out.
Of course not all decisions will be perfect and by and large the officials do a good job in what is increasingly becoming a faster and faster game so they have to make instant decisions in very difficult circumstances. Its a job where officials can make genuine mistakes, not perfect but in what job have we faultless workers, but the perception is its the big teams get the benefit of the doubt, like seriously how many here would think if the McTominay for manure last Sunday against Spurs was against Wolves or WBA would that goal have been disallowed?
Officiating is coming/at a critical juncture and needs to get its act together otherwise when the fans actually get back into the stadiums and these inconsistent decisions keep going against the lesser Clubs i think you could find the atmosphere getting very hostile very quickly and could even spill out onto the pitch, which nobody wants to see.