Sheffield Wednesday v Leeds United - Post Match Chat

[1964white]

The Match Day topic will be immediately locked at the final whistle


Please use this thread for your match comments after the game.

[1964white]

3 great points

[andrewjohnsmith]

Rodon looks like he put in a good 15 rounds tonight

[andrewjohnsmith]

Nice to see Poveda catching up with his mates.

Probably still hoping to get a league winners medal

[SG90]

10 in 12 without playing well. These are the kind of games we were drawing and losing in the first half of the season.

[whiteinfrance]

How come we were 10 times better in the second half?

[The Subhuman]

Would have been nice to answer CJay in the match thread and indeed for a second game I did .. Another waste of time

[AcrossThePondAsh]

Posted this is the match thread right before the game but it got lost. Seems relevant given Amp's great longs balls this match.

I think what's interesting about the "slow build up" vs. "direct attack" approaches is that were actually tied for first in the league with 76 direct attacks (Plymouth Argyle is who we're tied with). The other top four teams fall in this order overall:

Tied for 4th: Leicester - 55
6th: Soton - 51
7th: Ipswich - 50

In terms of the direct attack, which in this case is considered, "...the number of open play sequences that starts just inside the team's own half and has at least 50% of movement towards the opposition's goal and ends in a shot or a touch in the opposition box," we seem to be far outpacing the other top four teams.

In terms of "build up attacks," or "...the number of open play sequences that contains 10 or more passes and either ends in a shot or has at least one touch in the box," we rank third overall:

1st: Soton - 210
2nd: Leicester - 167
3rd: Leeds - 122
8th: Ipswich - 80

Closely related to the build-up play is the number of "10+ pass sequences" we have:

1st: Soton - 775
2nd: Leicester - 726
4th: Leeds - 532
10th: Ipswich - 358

In my professional analysis (using this very loosely here), as frustrating as the sideways passes can be, the "tikik taka" football could be much worse

Would I like to see even more long balls and cross fields switches of play--yes. However, overall, based on the numbers it seems like DF is getting the balance pretty perfect, especially when compared to the other top four teams.

Source: https://theanalyst.com/na/2023/08/champ ... S4yNC4wLjA.

[SG90]

As ridiculous as it sounds, it feels like we need another crazy winning run to have a chance of the top 2.

[The Subhuman]

How come we were 10 times better in the second half?

They tired, we found the soft spots ..

[AcrossThePondAsh]

10 in 12 without playing well. These are the kind of games we were drawing and losing in the first half of the season.

This in spades.

[andrewjohnsmith]

How come we were 10 times better in the second half?

We were better for the last 10 of the first half. But the goal really killed off Weds. We were able to control the game once we had the lead.

[White Riot]

Nice to see Georgi looking so happy, he suffered last season.

[whiteinfrance]

0-2 prediction for me with Bamford first scorer! Take that bitches

[WhiteRose]

Good three points and have to say despite not been up to our usual standard 7 from 9 is a good week. Tough for Southampton looking at a 9 point gap even with 2 games in hand.

Goal difference could still come in to it with Ipswich and ours is a lot better.

[SG90]

Nice 9 day rest now

[AcrossThePondAsh]

FT Stats

xG*
Leeds: 1.94
Sheffield: 0.70

Possession
Leeds: 60%
Sheffield: 40%

Shots
Leeds: 13 total = 7 on target, 2 off target, & 4 blocked
Sheffield: 9 total = 3 on target, 3 off target, & 3 blocked

*Expected goals (xG) measures the quality of a chance by calculating the likelihood that it will be scored from a particular position on the pitch during a particular phase of play

[Chilli D]

I'll be honest this switching threads is a balls ache.

[andrewjohnsmith]

Good three points and have to say despite not been up to our usual standard 7 from 9 is a good week. Tough for Southampton looking at a 9 point gap even with 2 games in hand.

Goal difference could still come in to it with Ipswich and ours is a lot better.

Take out the first 30 and this was a really comfortable game

[CUSSIE01]

Joe looks like he’s been kicked in the face by a horse