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Blooter from Rantala!

Gifting them chances from our own silly mistakes.

2 bad passes from Green already.

According to the stats (that you don't believe) we've created 125 'big' chances (1st in the league and 11 more than next best Leeds). We've converted 53 and missed 72. I'll do a big chance conversion rate table for the whole league when I can be bothered.

O'Brien back from injury and on the bench. Could be key.

Surely you remember our last home game against them? 3-0 win, but Bren wasn't a happy chappy.

Yep. If Saints win their game in hand (on us) and also beat us, they will be only 1 point behind us having played the same amount of games.

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Of course he'd have allowed him to leave. Certainly at least on loan. Enzo's been banging on since last August about how the squad is too big and players need to leave.

The last few pages of this thread make for interesting reading. For some reason it abruptly stops just as he leaves for AFCON, when he was playing well.

Why didn't they then, last summer or in January? I'm certain Enzo would have allowed him to leave.

BDC back in the game!

He assisted Vardy in the cup against Birmingham, but hasn't assisted him in a league game since September 2019.

He'll do well to make the match day squad, let alone see the pitch. Simply doesn't fit into 'The Idea'.

Scheffler is slowly but surely grinding everyone into the dirt.

What odds Tiger withdraws before the final round? Don't think that leg can make it through 4 rounds anymore, and he's fallen way out of contention now.

Controversial opinion - scrawny Rory from 10+ years ago would have won more majors by now than pumped-up muscly Rory.

League One is the last league up the pyramid they can pump money in with impunity. They are only allowed to spend 60% of the club's income on player wages, but that income can include money injected by the owners. It'll only start getting difficult once they reach the Championship.

Not that it will happen, since Enzo is a slave to his 'idea', but I bet Vardy and Daka would love to play alongside Nacho. JV and Nacho's record as a partnership is ridiculously good. And Daka's best performance, scoring 4 in Moscow, came playing in a pair with Nacho.

Is it any wonder nobody wants to go up? Look at the Man City/Luton game today. 5-1. 37 goal attempts to 4. Who wants any part of that? Totally uneven contest. And the gap between the haves and have nots will only get wider.

You're right in that we don't keep enough clean sheets. But we are far from porous. We're conceding less than one goal per game on average. We have the second best goals against tally and xGA (behind Leeds). We've only conceded more than one goal on 7 occasions. 6 of our 10 defeats have been 1-0. We are definitely not porous.

Our defence isn't porous though is it? We've basically been done twice in a weak by teams that have had one chance and taken it. It's our attacking play that has fallen off a cliff.

Yep. I'm actually more optimistic about the next two games against WBA and Southampton than I am about the last two against Preston and Blackburn.

Last time we played WBA at home was the infamous game where Brendan flew into a rage because the players had the temerity to play fast, attacking football and go 3-0 up by HT.

Leeds lose. Sky to bring out the black armbands and hold a minute's silence.