Blackburn Rovers v Leeds Utd Match Thread

[andrewjohnsmith]

Same old, same old. First shot on target, penalty, park the bus, Farke has no clue how to change it, easy 3 points for the opposition. Piroe will get the blame, yet no one else seems to score. Those thinking we don't need signings in January are delusional. Not seen the pen yet, but willing to bet it was saveable. And as for Farke being the best manager in the league, Eustace has beat him 3 times in a row without conceding.

Penalty wasn't their first threat. They hit the cross bar before that. And had 3 good chances to finish it off late on.

[Cjay]

Same points as last season now at this stage.

[DDB220]

Games like this is when you need a proper target man. But we do not have that option on the bench.

[SG90]

Penalty wasn't their first threat. They hit the cross bar before that. And had 3 good chances to finish it off late on.

It was their first shot on target, which 99.99% results in a goal.

[The Subhuman]

Exactly! The starting lineup sucked. Subs weren’t great, but were better and gave us our only attacking threat.

Gnonto was our only attacking threat

[John in Louisiana]

I'm struggling

Don't know that I'll be voting for MOTM. Absolutely nobody stood out.

Aaronson was his usual energetic self and did some nice things but it was a Shakespearean game, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Same for Gnonto. Nobody else was even full of sound and fury.

Tanaka's worst game for us.

[SG90]

Same points as last season now at this stage.

And Farke has shown he's learned nothing from last season, as we had so many results like this and there's been no change of tactics or anything. Blunts and Burnley are too consistent for top 2 and we have no chance of winning the playoffs.

[Onemanstanding]

Poor performance, too many players went missing, poor execution in the final third.
No urgency until too late.
Rodon man of the match for me.

[The Subhuman]

Blackburn 8th. Game in hand, could be 6th.

On paper this is not a terrible away loss

But ... just when we seemed to be clicking. We have most of our starters back fully fit. What champo side can bring Ramazani, Solomon, Bamford, and Joseph off the bench, and leave Wober on the bench? We've got an abundance of quality. Makes it disappointing that we lose (and don't look like winning) these games

And everything you say speaks of tactical issues...

[The Subhuman]

2023/4 - 2024/5 comparison

points difference - 24 season/23 season

1 - Level after Draw/Draw
2 - 1 UP after Draw/Loss
3 - 3 up after Win/Draw
4 - 3 up after Win/Win
5 - 2 up after Loss/Draw
6 - 2 up after Win/Win
7. 4 up after Win/Draw
8. 2 up after Draw/Win
9. 3 up after Draw/Loss
10 - 3 up after Win/Win
11- 3 up after Win/Win
12 - 1 Up after draw/Win
13 - 4 up after Win/Loss
14 - 1 up after Loss/Win
15 - 1 up after Win/Win
16 - 3 up after Win/Draw
17 - Level after Lose/Win

Next up last season we beat Middleborough at home

[The Subhuman]

Same points as last season now at this stage.

And we win the next two last season.

[SG90]

Blackburn 8th. Game in hand, could be 6th.

On paper this is not a terrible away loss

But ... just when we seemed to be clicking. We have most of our starters back fully fit. What champo side can bring Ramazani, Solomon, Bamford, and Joseph off the bench, and leave Wober on the bench? We've got an abundance of quality. Makes it disappointing that we lose (and don't look like winning) these games

But throwing on loads of attackers to "cause chaos" has never worked, nor never will, but we can guarantee that'll be the tactic again next time we're behind.

[John in Louisiana]

I guess on the bright side we're still sitting second while Sheffield United have been on quite the hot streak (17 points from 21). Where were we relative to the top two this time last year?

We had better beat Derby next weekend, though.

[Finnatic]

Third defeat of the season and the worst performance.
Against Burnley and Millwall at least we deserved something.

[andrewjohnsmith]

Gnonto was our only attacking threat

I thought he had a good game. But rushed the chances he had. I can think of 5 and you'd think he could have made better with at least one. The first one was clear on the keeper and he seemed to rush it

Surprised he came off as he'd been our biggest threat the whole game

[Finnatic]

But throwing on loads of attackers to "cause chaos" has never worked, nor never will, but we can guarantee that'll be the tactic again next time we're behind.

It worked against Norwich away last season but not any other time.

[Overman]

Games like this is when you need a proper target man. But we do not have that option on the bench.

Yep, someone like Gyokeres.

[John in Louisiana]

71% possession
13 shots to 11
5 on target to 2
9 corners to 3

I guess this is what is meant by lying with statistics.

[andrewjohnsmith]

Don't know that I'll be voting for MOTM. Absolutely nobody stood out.

Aaronson was his usual energetic self and did some nice things but it was a Shakespearean game, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Same for Gnonto. Nobody else was even full of sound and fury.

Tanaka's worst game for us.

Sound and Fury wasn't Shakespeare. It was Faulkner.

[ElKapitan]

Same old, same old. First shot on target, penalty, park the bus, Farke has no clue how to change it, easy 3 points for the opposition. Piroe will get the blame, yet no one else seems to score. Those thinking we don't need signings in January are delusional. Not seen the pen yet, but willing to bet it was saveable. And as for Farke being the best manager in the league, Eustace has beat him 3 times in a row without conceding.

Totally agree.

I like Farke and we know what we're going to get with him and I accept that right now, but either he has not got the ability to adapt or like Bielsa is focused on his ethos/setup rather than adaptation. Being objective we have a cracking squad and should be targeting top two.... We are top two but games like this count. Draws away from home count. Like last season if all teams sit deep latter end of season we'll struggle without being able to provide an answer.

Farke/Bielsa's time in the prem shows that tactically, all out attacking football does not work leading to us getting hammered. This is not the prem but to a lesser extent the same rule now applies as I feel the quality of the championship has increased exponentially in recent years.

Managers in the championship don't have the quality to exploit inflexibility while playing attacking football against the quality we possess. So they do the next best thing and play to frustrate, limiting out chances by sitting deep. This generally gets more for them out of a game against us.