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I can't think of a first half this season where we've looked up for it tbh, every week the first 45 + 10 of 2nd half we stink the place out.

Quite balanced and fair imo

Imo it’s tempo. We take 3 months to build up an attack and give the opposition time to organise. It’s really boring to see us hit teams on the counter only to stop just before we make the killer pass and instead pass it back around the defence for 40 passes. I get that we try to tire them out, but we are so lethargic passing it around the opposition can basically walk into position. We need to stretch them with a bit more pace and we might open up clear chances.

Justin needs to stop complaining and get on with the game. Another poor first half so far from us.

Love vards but it’s over, he’s on target for 12 goals this season but I doubt he will even get that, he’s not looked interested at times. 70k a week is a monumental wage for someone who will likely struggle for double figures. I get that teams often sit in a low block and that doesn’t suit him or us, but with that said, we could all see that coming, so it just doesn’t make sense to have him taking up such a huge wage. Vardy, Daka and Kel must be taking home close to 140k a week and they have 9 goals. Id rather we agreed a mutual termination than see him go out with a whimper like this. I know he wanted to stay and help us, but on his wages is he helping or hindering compared to if we had just bought another striker.

I'll be surprised if he's here at the end of Jan at this rate.

Very poor first half as has been the script this season, multiple mistakes in defence, midfield anonymous, no fight in us. Leeds completely dominated us and exposed our flaws in this system, very frustrated at the lack of adaption today, Enzo made some subs that were needed but then continued to adopt the same slow pointless passing which led to even more mistakes in the second half. Daniel Farke has a win record over 50% from something like 150 championship games which is a fantastic record. He set Leeds up perfectly and sad to say but he was tactically superior today. It's one loss in 10 so I'm not too fussed about the result as we are still going in the right direction and still hold a healthy lead if Ipswich drop points from their games in hand. The league table does not lie, but i'm still unconvinced by the system and whether we can make it work should we get promoted, we need monumental improvements in the squad to make this style of play work against premier league clubs and i'm not sure we will have the funding to make that happen. Long way to go, lot's of time to improve as a unit, Enzo still has massive credit in the bank. Tonight was a bit of a write off and we look forward to the next one. Best team won.

Yep, I'm loving the Enzo revolution but I am VERY concerned about this style of play long term. The idea is fine, I buy into the blueprint, but the tempo is lethargic and there is something really amiss in the final third and defence, we are very prone to making mistakes in defence and we often play ourselves into submission in attack. We've got the quality to punish teams at this level, but looking to the future and the likelihood we will be in the top flight next season, quite concerned about how the premier league teams will take advantage of us if we don't massively strengthen and improve as a unit over the next 30 odd games. The results have been amazing, but the majority of those results have come after 75 minutes of pretty poor football relative to our quality.

Yep, Farke has them set up perfectly to expose our weaknesses. I noticed earlier in the match on one of the stat pop ups, Farke has won something like 78 of his 150 championship games as a manager, 50% win rate is phenomenal really.

Yeah it's important we don't take too much away from Leeds tonight, we've been awful but they have absolutely dominated us.

Jamie Vardy is on what 70k a week? if the 50% relegation clause is true, club legend, love him but is he really earning that at this level? he's on target for 12 goals if he's lucky, doubtful of that too with the way we play. But with that expense every week can we afford another signing? or are we just hoping Cannon comes good? Daka, Vardy and Iheanacho are earning what 140k a week between them? 9 goals for a team absolutely dominating the ball in most games.

Got a link?

Give him a chance, he's only just come off, he needs atleast 15 mins to get changed and start preparing it

We just have individual quality to grind out results, but for 75% of most games we've been lethargic, play like this in the top flight and we are in for a long season, we really need to up the tempo across the 90, it's no surprise the players have lapses in judgment, I'm asleep watching.

To be honest it's probably a good thing that Leeds have exposed our flaws really. We need teams to take it to us like this more often and really expose us or we will never improve and could end up like Burnley next season. I really don't want us promoted at a canter, points wise sure, but we need teams like Leeds to improve our game.

Poor.

Do Leeds fans still sing "We are the champions, champions of europe" for 40 minutes at a time?

Send them crying into their Hovis my son

I'm numb to the boredom of first half Leicester at this point, surprised so many people are shocked by it, this has been 90% of our first halves this season, we just haven't played many teams able to take advantage of us being asleep.

Could really do with a Lillian Casadei goal tonight

Have to say I did not realise that Daniel Farke' record at this level is so strong, 150 odd games managed with a 51% win record, that's some track record that.

Fantastic from Faes there.

Yeah can't take away how good Leeds have been so far to be fair, good call.

Need to settle down, early days but so far it's another really poor start from us.

Here we go, HUGE game, feeling confident today!