Dirty, dirty Leeds (A) 8pm Friday 24th October

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• steve

  October 22

  still not at home
• ASLEFshrugged

  October 22

  God damn you Google!!!
  
  Yeah we’re up at Elland Road, last time was January 2023, we drew 2-2, think it was Paqueta and Scamacca
• Pengeman

  October 22

  This will be a tough game. Leeds are a very fit and organised team.
  NES has problems. I can't see how he can play Scarles, Marshall, Todibo and Irving after Monday's debacle. Must play a striker. Paqueta has been poor and needs to be dropped.
  This starting lineup looks good to me.
  Areola
  AWB Julio Kilman Diouf
  Magassa Fernandes Potts
  Bowen Wilson Summerville
  
• alderz

  October 22

  I personally do not rate Areola at all, but I suspect he’ll play again. I can’t see how Paqueta or Todibo can be selected, so I’d like to see this. I also would rather not see Kilman, but Todibo has been more awful and Mavropanos is injured.
  
  Areola
  AWB - Kilman - Igor - Diouf
  Magassa - Soucek
  Bowen - Fernandes - Summerville
  Wilson
• Fortuneseeker

  October 22

  @alderz, Why do most people keep picking Soucek?
• Lukerz

  October 22 edited October 22

  Hermansen
  Wan-Bissaka - Todibo - Kilman - Diouf
  Magassa - Fernandes
  Bowen - Paquetá - Summerville
  Wilson
  
  2-0 Leeds
  
  It’s all we have. We have to hope we can get some sort of tune out of this side at some point but, given nearly a 1/4 of season gone & we’ve seen nothing, I don’t have much hope.
• OutcastLondoner

  October 22 edited October 23

  alderz said:

  I personally do not rate Areola at all, but I suspect he’ll play again. I can’t see how Paqueta or Todibo can be selected, so I’d like to see this. I also would rather not see Kilman, but Todibo has been more awful and Mavropanos is injured.
  
  Areola
  AWB - Kilman - Igor - Diouf
  Magassa - Soucek
  Bowen - Fernandes - Summerville
  Wilson

  I think I’d like to see this but with Kilman the one dropped. He can’t keep walking in to the team and he is consistently a weakness. Doesn’t have lots of obvious howlers but is constantly not doing his job.
• Lukerz

  October 23

  Hermansen
  Todibo - Kilman - Igor
  Wan-Bissaka - Magassa - Fermandes - Diouf
  Paquetá
  Bowen - Summerville
  
  Could also be an option
• ASLEFshrugged

  October 23

  Wilson hasn’t been off the bench since Nuno took over, he might as well join JWP wherever he is
• Lukerz

  October 23

  If we continue to play without a recognised striker, consistently, we will be relegated by Jan.
• Lukerz

  October 23

  The best we played under Nuno was second half v Everton. That should be the side minus the injured players Mavropanos & Füllkrug. Todibo & Wilson should come in for them (only options). We had a 4-3-3 of Magassa - Fernandes - Paquetá in midfield & a striker up top.
• alderz

  October 23

  Fortuneseeker said:

  @alderz, Why do most people keep picking Soucek?

  I don’t know why most people do, as I am just one person
• Fortuneseeker

  October 23

  If it wasn't a serious question I would laugh! @alderz why don't you simply answer for the rest then as a few do include him when he is just not good enough which based on how we are currently playing is saying a lot.
• IronHerb

  October 23

  I don't particularly want alderz to answer on my behalf thanks.
  
  If, as you say, most people keep including Soucek in their line ups then it's obvious they believe he's better than the alternatives.
  
  Hmm! I think I just answered for the rest. 🤷‍♂️
• Fortuneseeker

  October 23

  @Ironherb, That genuinely makes me feel very concerned. It just highlights what a mess we are currently in.
• alderz

  October 23

  The reason I think he should play is because we are terrible at defending our box, and I think he's the best aerial presence we have. I'd rather have him in the box defending set pieces than not, personally.
• Fortuneseeker

  October 23

  @alderz, I reckon we could live with his inability to move the ball quickly and accurately in the past but as we now appear to be unable to defend crosses his use has been somewhat diminished but that is of course IMO. NES played on the counter attack at Forest so having Soucek in the line up will hinder that plan.
• steve

  October 23

  Anyone know where Guilherme is not even on the bench for the Brentford game unless I missed it Is he injured again
• BubblesNeverDies

  October 23

  IMO, any lineup featuring Kilman in defence is going to concede goals.
• jay_in_cpt

  October 23

  Lukerz said:

  Hermansen
  Todibo - Kilman - Igor
  Wan-Bissaka - Magassa - Fermandes - Diouf
  Paquetá
  Bowen - Summerville
  
  Could also be an option

  It could, but I'd stick with Areola at the moment.....
• alderz

  October 23

  steve said:

  Anyone know where Guilherme is not even on the bench for the Brentford game unless I missed it Is he injured again

  I'm pretty sure he's injured, isn't he?
• alderz

  October 23 edited October 24

  Fortuneseeker said:

  @alderz, I reckon we could live with his inability to move the ball quickly and accurately in the past but as we now appear to be unable to defend crosses his use has been somewhat diminished but that is of course IMO. NES played on the counter attack at Forest so having Soucek in the line up will hinder that plan.

  Moyes played on the counter attack with Soucek at the heart of it so I don’t know about that
• Lukerz

  October 24 edited October 24

  Souček is great if his job is to get into the box & support attacks. I don’t see why Fernandes & Magassa playing behind him would not get the best out of him & he has licence to get forward. We all know he is also half decent at defending set-plays in our box. We just need to keep him away from regular involvement in our build up/possession. Shouldn’t be hard for Nuno to work out. All I would say is, given our current embarrassing fight, I’d be happy with Souček in our side.
• ASLEFshrugged

  October 24

  Farke says there are a few "late decisions" over fitness
  
  Noah Okafor and LW/RW Wilfried Gnonto haven't completed team training this week
  
  CM Ethan Ampadu and CB Pascal Struijk have missed training with illness
  
  First two were both missing last weekend but second two have been regular starters
  
  Replacements for Amapdu would be CMs Ilia Gruev (26 caps for Bulgaria) and Ao Tanaka (34 caps Japan), both have three starts earlier this season but have been on the bench in recent matches
  
  Replacements for Struijk could be either Slovenian Jaka Bijol (£15m Udinese) or Belgian Sebastiaan Bornauw (Wolfsburg £5m), both joined in the summer, both started in the Carabao Cup loss to Sheffield Wednesday but neither has played in the Premier League so far
• ASLEFshrugged

  October 24

  From BBC website by "BBC Sport journalist"
  
  
  
  Written by AI?
• OutcastLondoner

  October 24

  I’m curious, what makes you think that it could have been written by AI?
• nychammer66

  October 24

  OutcastLondoner said:

  I’m curious, what makes you think that it could have been written by AI?

  Forest boss?
• MrsGrey

  October 24

  Par for the course for BBC.
• OutcastLondoner

  October 24

  I think AI would’ve probably been more accurate!
  
  Live blogging is done by often inexperienced reporters who are rushing and usually don’t have someone check what they’re doing until afterwards, so those mistakes happen.
• claretandbluesky

  October 24

  This will be difficult without our best centre back.
  
  That's where we are in my view, Mavropanos is our best centre back at present!!!!
  
  I hope Monday was Nuno's attempt at being a genius and he will now settle himself down and realise his only hope is to get a bit more from the players via motivation and a system they feel more comfortable in than they maybe did under Potter. It's a scrap and every single point matters now, even though we are only in October.