I set off in the pouring rain thinking 'why did we fall for this again?' - each pre-season we say we will not bother but then the wait becomes too much and the lure of going to ER gets to be too much to resist. We were hoping to see lots of new faces - but despite the fact that, with Bamford, we have four new players and a new face in Roberts, none of them were in the starting line up, and what a strange looking line up it was.As they awaited the kick off and lined up in formation it was odd - three at the back with Kelvin Phillips in between Cooper and Berardi, , with Vieira sat in front of the back three,wide ahead of him were Dallas and Ayling and then alioski, Saiz and Hernandez further ahead and Roofe alone up top.Sort of 3, 1,2, 3, 1 A lot of the players seem keen on switching and swopping places with them popping up all over the place. The opposition were not up to much and the game was very much a non event - the highlights can be summed up in 5 things - they hit the bar twice from free kicks, their keeper made a save from a Pablo free kick, Roofe nearly got on the end of a cross but could not quite reach it for a tap in, and then the goal from Roofe- a corner fell to Roofe who controlled it well, swivelled round and hit it home a very good finish Invidually Vieira and Saiz were both poor and were subbed for Klitch and Baker who both impressed and may well now be favourites for the shirt. The equally poor Alioski was replaced on the hour mark by Roberts who did look lively in spurts. We missed Forshaw who was injured - one report I have seen today suggests it is a bad one - lets hope not. Hernandez was invisible, so much so that it was after 30mins when my son pointed out he had just realised he was on the pitch Final verdict - we did not look ready for a proper game in 7 days, we need Forshaw fit, Pontus back and playing well, and we need Douglas and Bamford to be the players we hope they are Dave _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected]
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