Good Morning. It's Monday 2nd December, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road Gap widens at the top of the Championship as Leeds win 5th game in a row Leeds returned to the top of the table in emphatic style hammering Middlesbrough 4-0 at Elland Road on Saturday. Goals from Bamford, Costa and a brace from Klich saw the Whites return to the top of the pirch at least until Monday evening when the Baggies travel to the Deepdale Stadium. Not only do Leeds have the meanest defence in the division, conceding almost one goal every other game, but on average the remainder of the top 6 have conceded twice the amount of goals compared to Bielsa's men. It is not surprising therefor that the Whites also have the best goal difference in the Championship! The only downside on Saturday is influential midfielder Kalvin Phillips picked up his 5th booking of the season and will be sidelined for Leeds West Yorkshire Derby against Huddersfield on Saturday. Word has it that Bielsa has already nominated Ben White to take his place. Thoughts? If a silly offer were to come in at the end of the season for Phillips, if Leeds were able to sign White instead, who would be in agreement of that? Moving White to defensive midfielder would surely mean recalling Berardi to partner Cooper in the heart of the defence. Whilst on the subject of Berardi, the 31yo will not be offered a new contract when his terms expire at the end of the season according to sources at Elland Road! Post Match Press conference Promotion / Relegation Looking at the league table, who do you think (apart from Leds of course) will be promoted this season? Who would you like / dislike to see / miss out on promotion? The same question regarding relegation! please log in to view this image
Actually we have the best record of any club in Europe. Some dont think Bielsa is all hes cracked up to be?
Morning all. We need Philips AND White next season. None of this bullshit anymore of selling a to hopefully buy B. Thats why were decades outside the pl. On to Saturday. Brilliant display and atmosphere. Great meeting Wakey and Chesh, plans afoot for the January outing.
We have a fantastic defensive record despite barely having any defenders. Attack is the best form of defence. We keep opposition players pinned in their half with advanced full/wing backs and an aggressive press when we don’t have the ball. The downside is we need more chances than most sides because we’re trying to break down packed/set defences. That’s the bielsa trade off. But the fact that these two things are related is something that a lot of fans don’t seem to get.
Good Morning to Matt and co from a sunny mild Bardsey My daughters 50 today so I wish her happy birthday .She was 3lb when she was 3 months early boy look at her now Phillips did he get the yellow my design I wonder better to be able to pick which game you want to be suspended for have we anymore players on 4 bookings Great game in store at Preston lets hope they beat WBA
Hi Mike if Phillips had not got booked on Saturday the 4 booking he had would have been knocked off as Saturday was booking cut off day
Happy Monday folks. All we can do is keep winning be nice to widen the gap on 3rd for if and when a blip comes, Fulham away later this month will be a massive game. If we don't go up, we'll lose Phillips and White, if we do keeping both would be nice, doubt we'll be able to afford the price they'd want for him, as we've put him in the shop window, as Villa did with Mings, he went from a £10m player to one they paid £28m for because of how well he played for them. As it stands, hopefully the 3 footballing teams that are the top 3 now will be promoted, a victory for how the game should be played. Relegation.Boro, Barnsley and Luton. Would love to see Derby relegated but unfortunately can't see it happening. Unless the EFL did the right thing and deduct them points, which they won't.
Afternoon all Ben White looks decent on the ball I think he’ll fill in fine, I’m more concerned about the person filling in for White. At the end of the season if we’re not promoted we’ll probably sell Phillips and there isn’t a chance White would be willing to join a Championship club on a permanent deal
if we dont go up this season there will be more than Phillips on his bike. Bielsa will be gone as players like Phillips, Klich, White, Harrison, Kiko, Clarke, Forshaw and Alioski will be gone. Bare bones of Ayling Cooper, Dallas, Roberts, Bamford, Pablo, and kids left. Back to mid table without massive injection of cash. Think this is Radz last hurrah