Last round Leeds took
the lead quite late, but conceded an equaliser even later and that has
set the tempo for all their games under Rosler so far, also drawing at
Reading on Sunday and in a Yorkshire derby at Doncaster Rovers in the
Capital One Cup last midweek, where they had to play much of the game
with ten men. The match against the Royals was a turgid affair with very
few chances and it had a 0-0 look from about the 10th minute onwards,
Rosler has his teams well organised and prepared, but is far too
negative at times, especially on the road, when drawing or holding a
narrow lead, for my liking. However, his team's are very hard to break
down and getting a handicap start against newly promoted City, who are
pointless so far and under quite a bit of pressure to get at least a
point tonight, looks the way to go. I saw the Robins on Saturday, in
their 4-2 home defeat to Brentford, City were 2-1 up and had missed good
chances to extend that lead, before the match turned on the sending off
of Luke Freeman. From that moment on (35th minute), it was all Bees and
the away win never looked in doubt. Brentford are very confident with
their passing game and the wide open spaces of Ashton Gate (which looks
bigger as there are only three sides to the stadium at present) played
to their strengths, which meant that for much of the next hour + , City
had to work incredibly hard and at times where chasing shadows and the
quick turnaround when many players are still coming to terms with life
at the higher level, is a big ask on the back of that.
They will
be without Freeman tonight, he played in central midfield, right at the
heart of what was a 3-5-2 and the catalyst of so much of what they did
offensively, he was on Saturday (after his departure) and will be today,
a very big loss, Freeman was ever present last season, contributing
seven goals and 18 assists and for many, was the stand out performer in
League 1. City know they are a couple of players short of being
competitive in the Championship and made what looked like a bit of a
panic bid yesterday of £9m for Andre Gray of the Bees, they have a
wealthy owner, but in terms of FFP, this is a signing they cannot really
afford (as I type it has still not been completed). Anyway, we will
discuss Gray in the future, for now, suffice to say that City are still
coming to grips with life at this level, need to strengthen and are
without perhaps their best player today. United have won the last six
h2h meetings with City ,have scored eight (two or more in each) in their
last three visits to Bristol and look good for at least a point and I
don't feel that the hosts would be too disappointed with that. We are at
a very early stage of the season, but almost 52% of games in the
Championship have ended all square, many teams look evenly matched and
there is a lot of jostling for position, especially in the transfer
market and for now, games in general might continue to be hard to win.
Things will probably return to "normal" after the transfer window has
closed.
Leeds United +0.25 ball 2.05 asian line/Sportmarket.
Last round Leeds took
the lead quite late, but conceded an equaliser even later and that has
set the tempo for all their games under Rosler so far, also drawing at
Reading on Sunday and in a Yorkshire derby at Doncaster Rovers in the
Capital One Cup last midweek, where they had to play much of the game
with ten men. The match against the Royals was a turgid affair with very
few chances and it had a 0-0 look from about the 10th minute onwards,
Rosler has his teams well organised and prepared, but is far too
negative at times, especially on the road, when drawing or holding a
narrow lead, for my liking. However, his team's are very hard to break
down and getting a handicap start against newly promoted City, who are
pointless so far and under quite a bit of pressure to get at least a
point tonight, looks the way to go. I saw the Robins on Saturday, in
their 4-2 home defeat to Brentford, City were 2-1 up and had missed good
chances to extend that lead, before the match turned on the sending off
of Luke Freeman. From that moment on (35th minute), it was all Bees and
the away win never looked in doubt. Brentford are very confident with
their passing game and the wide open spaces of Ashton Gate (which looks
bigger as there are only three sides to the stadium at present) played
to their strengths, which meant that for much of the next hour + , City
had to work incredibly hard and at times where chasing shadows and the
quick turnaround when many players are still coming to terms with life
at the higher level, is a big ask on the back of that.
They will
be without Freeman tonight, he played in central midfield, right at the
heart of what was a 3-5-2 and the catalyst of so much of what they did
offensively, he was on Saturday (after his departure) and will be today,
a very big loss, Freeman was ever present last season, contributing
seven goals and 18 assists and for many, was the stand out performer in
League 1. City know they are a couple of players short of being
competitive in the Championship and made what looked like a bit of a
panic bid yesterday of £9m for Andre Gray of the Bees, they have a
wealthy owner, but in terms of FFP, this is a signing they cannot really
afford (as I type it has still not been completed). Anyway, we will
discuss Gray in the future, for now, suffice to say that City are still
coming to grips with life at this level, need to strengthen and are
without perhaps their best player today. United have won the last six
h2h meetings with City ,have scored eight (two or more in each) in their
last three visits to Bristol and look good for at least a point and I
don't feel that the hosts would be too disappointed with that. We are at
a very early stage of the season, but almost 52% of games in the
Championship have ended all square, many teams look evenly matched and
there is a lot of jostling for position, especially in the transfer
market and for now, games in general might continue to be hard to win.
Things will probably return to "normal" after the transfer window has
closed.
Leeds United +0.25 ball 2.05 asian line/Sportmarket.
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