Leeds held to a goalless draw against Sheffield Wednesday
A tough point in a home banker for LUFC
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00:00 So, Lee, starting with the goal of Struor, Ellen Road to Sheffield Wednesday,
00:04 what are the feelings after that one?
00:07 Because going into it, it certainly looked like these were heavy favourites.
00:12 Well, I think it could almost be a template of what we're going to see a fair few times over the rest of the season, Charles,
00:16 to be honest, in terms of teams coming to Ellen Road,
00:19 like, you know, setting up to be tight, to be compact, low block,
00:22 you know, sort of like just trying to sort of stay in the game for as long as possible and then try and nick it at the other end.
00:27 And to a degree, that's almost what Sheffield Wednesday did.
00:30 There's no doubt that Leeds had the better chances in the game overall.
00:33 I mean, the stats tell you that, although actually saying that Sheffield Wednesday had one more attempt on goal.
00:38 But Leeds just didn't take the chances.
00:40 And also it has to be said that Wednesday had a couple at the other end as well.
00:42 So, I mean, the theme of this basically is that Leeds are just going to have to take the chances better.
00:47 And this is nothing new.
00:48 I mean, however long I've been doing videos on Air 4, it's always been a theme with Leeds.
00:52 Like, they just don't, they just never have taken a higher enough percentage of the chance in front of goal.
00:58 It was the same with the Marcelo Bielsa team.
01:01 The difference with the Marcelo Bielsa team was that they created so many chances, you know, that they were always going to score a few eventually.
01:06 And I kind of thought that at the start of the season that Daniel Farkas' Leeds side would create a lot of chances too.
01:10 And they are doing that, but they might be a similar sort of thing.
01:13 It sort of flies in the face of what we saw the previous weekend at Ipswich, when obviously they were clinical and they scored four times.
01:19 I mean, the chances that they had against Sheffield Wednesday were, you know, to a degree somewhat easier.
01:24 I mean, the Brutair threw one goal, Somerville was through as well, Pirro put one wide.
01:29 But, you know, basically, I think it's just going to be a lesson learned that that's what's going to happen time and time again at Ellen Road.
01:34 There will be, there might be the odd team that comes to Ellen Road and has a go, you know, but generally speaking, teams are going to look at it and think, well, we're away from home.
01:41 You just look at Leeds attacking threats and that's what's going to happen.
01:44 So, yeah, so it's something they're going to have to figure out.
01:47 The absence of a number 10 is sort of like brought into sharper focus by that, because that's when you need one, really.
01:52 Someone to like drop deep and let things happen.
01:54 But you can see in games, you've got like Ampadu and Gray, as it is at the minute in the centre of midfield, sort of looking ahead of them and thinking, well, you know, where's the runners?
02:01 What's happening? And this, that and the other.
02:02 But saying that they did create chances, you know, they just didn't take them basically.
02:06 So that's going to be the lesson.
02:07 It's going to have to be a case of, A, figuring out how to work these teams out, but ultimately also taking your chances in front of goal, because that was a difference, really, in that one between a draw and three points.
02:17 Although saying that, you know, I've got a good Wednesday credit because they did have a couple of chances themselves and I can see why they say that they might have nicked it too.