We have issues, yes. but I thought that PV did alright vs Leeds.

formation/Lineup looked OK - odd that Zaha and Eduoard were in each others positions, but kinda understood that.

The 3 subs he made; Benteke improved us so proved to be correct. Would have liked to see Olise come on earlier. Not sure about Hughes, showed a lot of energy, but seemed rather headless at times. happy to put that down to pressures of 1st appearance.

Thought we had a tough game. Leeds wanted it more and pressed us well, and without Anderson and JMac we didn't live with them. That shows the weakness in our squad.
Tomkins and VG worried me every time VG got the ball. Tomkins would drop short and stand right next to VG? like thy don't trust VG's distribution. Tompkins would then float the ball to a midfielder, so Leeds could just put pressure on the receiver immediately. I'd rather he just hoofed it tbh.

When Benteke came on, we looked much more dangerous. How he missed that header I'll never know. but we wouldn't have even made that chance had he not been on the pitch. Cliché, but he could have had 2 tonight with the header and the Meslier save off the line.

That was the only PV mistake for me, in hindsight, CB should have been on for OE from the Start. but at least he changed it with enough time for CB to make a difference.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

yeh its mccarthur who was pulling the strings and has been sorely missed. He was very critical for our style.

and if benteke scores that header on Tuesday then its a very different game all of a sudden. I thought overall we played well

Edited by Dean_CPFC (02 Dec 2021 4.16pm)

What are you expecting, us to be up there challenging city, Liverpool and Chelsea ?

Ridiculous rant by the OP... We are going through a massive transistion of playing staff, coaching staff, tactics and have done bloody well up until now, surprising everybody, us fans included. We are still a massive work in progress and PV I'm sure will still have targets he wants to bring in.

As others have said there's not alot PV can do about individual errors. Like the other night for example. It's not his fault that Benteke misses from 6 yards or that Guehi handballs it in the last minute.

Be patient... Rome wasn't built in a day.

Don't waste your time with jealousy. Sometimes your ahead, sometimes your behind, the race is long. But in the end it's only with yourself!!

These are valid points.

The Leeds lineup and system was all wrong.

Schlupp is better coming of the bench anyway this is when you get the best from him.

Wilf needs to be dropped he is lazy even PV was screaming at him and playing him as a striker is a joke.

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What a stupid thread.

We lost based on fine margins. A late unlucky (but correct) penalty against us and a poor miss from Benteke. On another day we'd have won 1-0 and we'd be talking about Patrick the Messiah and we'd be in 7th. Do we expect to just roll over teams like Leeds away from home?

We are so much better than last season and speed in which we have changed our style in quite remarkable.