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Leeds Utd (H) 4:30pm 5th April Easter Sunday Eggsellent
Oh well, here we go
First the good news. C&H report that Summerville is back training with the first team and Nuno is planning to put out a strogn side
Now the not so good news. Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka both played in the early hours of Wednesday morning on the other side of the Atlantic. Fernandes was a 2nd half substitute in Portugal's win over USA in Atlanta while Wan-Bissaka played in Congo's win over Jamaica in Guadalajara.
One plus is Leeds' AM Brenden Aaronson also played in Atlanta
Leeds don't appear to have any major injuries, the only doubt is Swiss LW/CF Noah Okafor (AC Milan £18m) who has only returned against Brentford after a month out with a hamstring
Farke has gone with a 3-4-1-2 the last two matches, pairing top scorer Calvertt-Lewin (10 goals) with 2nd top scorer Lukas Nmecha (Wolfsburg, free, 7 goals). However in the last six games he's also used 4-5-1 and 5-4-1 so who knows
Assists are evenly spread with 6 players on 3 a piece but one of them is Anton Stach, 2nd only to Bruno Fernandes for key passes per game.
Based on the last six games...
Darlow
Rodon Bijol Struijk
Bogle Ampadu (c) Stach Gudmundsson
Aaronsson
Calvert-Lewin Nmecha
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The Positive Vibe Thread
Just back from a very nice cruise around the Carribean ,Missed the Villa game so theres two postives
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Word Games for March
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MOTM vs Villa
Little fun fact for you. Mavropanos has 74 total votes this season (3rd highest in the squad), and 62 of those have come in his last 6 games -
MOTM vs Villa
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Not Sure What Thread/Where to put it (from Feb 2026)
Leeds cup tie- temporarily Sold Out subject to tickets being released by stakeholders.
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Academy & PL2 2025/26
As we're going into the international break, here's another loan recap.
Gideon Kodua is now up to 10 goals in 41 appearances for Luton. That means he's only managed 1 in his last 14 appearances, and has definitely gone off the boil a bit, but broadly speaking he's still starting and getting a load of games under his belt. As with last time, it seems highly unlikely he'll be coming back to us in the summer as his contract expires.
Michael Forbes is now on 26 appearances and two goals in League One for Northampton Town. Northampton are not having a good season, and are currently 23rd in the league - 7 points from safety. He tends to be a starter in a back three, but Northampton have played with a back four in 5 of their last 7 matches, and he has seen his game time go a bit stop start. He's another who is out of contract at the end of the season, and given where he's playing and his age (he'll be 22 at the end of April), it seems unlikely that he'll be back either.
Mason Terry is having a decent time of it at Braintree Town. Not only has he made 35 appearances, he's also scored a goal and got an assist in the last couple of months. The goal saw him come up for a corner, win a header and then scramble it in on the line. The assist saw him come up for a corner again, and this time the ball broke to him wide in the box, and he crossed for someone else to finish. He's also getting rave reviews from Braintree fans (according to some of the West Ham news aggregator websites at least), and has picked up the MOTM award 15 times this season according to the BBC. Aside from that, though, Braintree are second bottom in the National League, so - whilst he's having a good season personally - it's not been a great year for Braintree.
Krisztián Hegyi started the first 8 league games after moving on loan to MTK Budapest, but missed the game at the weekend. Transfermarkt doesn't note whether he's injured or not, but he kept a clean sheet for the first time a week prior, so I'd assume he had a knock of some kind. Hegyi is 23 now, so it seems unlikely that he'll ever really trouble our first team, but his contract runs until the end of next season, so he might well be back on the bench for us in the future.
Over in 2.Bundesliga, it's not going brilliantly for Callum Marshall. He's got two goals in 10 appearances, which - after scoring on his debut - is probably not what he would have hoped for. That said, he's been playing all over the shop for Bochum. As far as I'm aware, Bochum were hoping to push for the playoffs after January, but were 10th when Marshall arrived, and are 10th now. Marshall is 21 now, 10 months younger than Pablo, only 4 months younger than Mateus Fernandes, and a month older than El Hadji Malick Diouf. It feels unlikely to me that he'll break out first team next season, but he is under contract until 2027 so we shall see.
George Earthy's return to Bristol City has gone about as well as his season there in 2024/25. Last year, he made 40 appearances, and but 28 were from the bench. Since returning in January, he's made 8 appearances, 6 from the bench.
Junior Robinson is having more joy in the National League than he had up in Scotland - but not by much. He had a brief spell with Livingstone earlier in the season where he made one substitute appearance. He's up to 6 appearances since joining Boreham Wood. He sat on the bench for a further 8 matches, and has missed the last 3 since he got taken off before halftime against Woking - according to the match reports, he hacked someone down, got booked and then got subbed off because the manager was worried about a red card coming down the line. He's another that's out of contract this summer.
Since heading to Leyton Orient, Kaelan Casey has been a bit of a fixture. He's started 8 games and come on for a further 3 appearances. He went off injured against Peterborough on 14th March, played the first half against Wimbledon on the 17th, and was then on the bench for the game against Wycombe on Saturday.
And finally, 20-year old right back Ryan Battrum joined Mason Terry at Braintree on Saturday, and immediately made his debut against Scunthorpe United, playing 90 minutes at right wing back. -
Aston Villa v West Ham, Sunday 22nd March at 2pm Zulu (For those further afield)
“We have to improve. I can’t keep repeating myself because today we lost individual battles and duels, we arrived late, we were not comfortable with the ball, so it’s worrying.”
NES always calls it as it is, no flannel or excuses, as he did in the quote you use. We played our worst game since Wolves and lost. It happens but it's not the end of the road as some are calling it.
Comments attributed to NES.
@IronHerb, As I said yesterday it was more to do with the lack of urgency than losing a game most thought we would. -
Aston Villa v West Ham, Sunday 22nd March at 2pm Zulu (For those further afield)
1 win in 6 league games, it’s not keeping us up
Lets look at last 8 games then -
Leeds
1-4-3
Spurs
0-2-6
Forest
1-4-3
West Ham
2-3-3
Burnley
1-2-5
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Not Sure What Thread/Where to put it (from Feb 2026)
3 gold medals in 30 minutes for GB at the World Indoor Athletics championships, first Georgia Hunter Bell in the 1500m, then Molly Caudery in the pole vault, and finally Keely Hodgkinson in the 800m.
