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Post by vvm on Mar 27, 2024 10:19:16 GMT
Not watching it back but don't think it was the worst penalty of all time either. Just unlucky the keeper went the right way, not his fault.
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Post by dai on Mar 27, 2024 10:22:02 GMT
Never blaming Dan for the loss, it felt like a matter of time before one of our boys missed. I didnt think we deserved to win last night regardless. Extra time was practically one way traffic and Poland had what seemed like 70/80% possession.
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Post by winsumluzsum on Mar 27, 2024 10:34:59 GMT
We did enough to win in 90. Restricted Poland to virtually nothing, whilst Moore had two good headed efforts, there was the marginal offside goal and the strong penalty shout. Unlucky not to win.
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Post by cymro on Mar 27, 2024 10:56:50 GMT
Any trolls bashing James online are just angry for feeling robbed of a piss up around Germany. These big games bring out the most toxic of people.
Someone has to miss one when it gets to sudden death situation. No shame at all for Dan, he's given so much in the Cymru shirt.
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Post by ddirpytnop on Mar 27, 2024 12:42:45 GMT
Never blaming Dan for the loss, it felt like a matter of time before one of our boys missed. I didnt think we deserved to win last night regardless. Extra time was practically one way traffic and Poland had what seemed like 70/80% possession. I have watched Poland either live or on TV half a dozen times over the last two years. They are not a good team and are a thoroughly miserable watch - just as they were last night. The disappointing thing is that we failed to capitalise on their failings. They deservedly won the penalty shoot-out - but the game itself? Nah. We didn't play as well as we can but we were by far the more likely to score in normal time. |
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Post by zserty on Mar 27, 2024 13:05:28 GMT
Feel sorry for Dan, he's been had by Page. Our most effective late game runner shifted to right back. What an absolute waste, caused us a massive hindrance.
When we have a natural RB and LB on the field with one also on the bench why didnt he utilise what we had.
As for the pen if the keeper goes the other way its a good pen, just unfortunate.
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Post by dai on Mar 27, 2024 13:28:19 GMT
Never blaming Dan for the loss, it felt like a matter of time before one of our boys missed. I didnt think we deserved to win last night regardless. Extra time was practically one way traffic and Poland had what seemed like 70/80% possession. I have watched Poland either live or on TV half a dozen times over the last two years. They are not a good team and are a thoroughly miserable watch - just as they were last night. The disappointing thing is that we failed to capitalise on their failings. They deservedly won the penalty shoot-out - but the game itself? Nah. We didn't play as well as we can but we were by far the more likely to score in normal time. Really? I thought they looked far more comfortable on the ball, and were much more confident in possession. They also pressed much better, and gave us very little time on the ball. While they seemed to move up the pitch with relative ease, in contrast, we laboured out of defence each time, and resorted to playing hoof ball up to Moore. |
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Post by winsumluzsum on Mar 27, 2024 13:39:03 GMT
Poland struggled to get near our area until extra time, hence the speculative efforts from distance. We certainly caused them problems from set pieces. Shame that Moore didn't quite have his A game.
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Post by iot on Mar 28, 2024 13:18:15 GMT
Sounds very silly to say, but I wonder whether the fact that we have no chant for Dan played any part in his penalty miss. I felt really awkward and ashamed when we had been loudly hissing every Polish taker, and came out with a chant for each of our first four takers, and then it was just eerily silent when DJ walked up as if everyone noticed we had nothing to sing. Might have been slightly unnerving for him, knowing it was the deciding penalty and then everything just goes quiet for the first time in the shootout.
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Post by llan123 on Mar 28, 2024 13:47:41 GMT
Sounds very silly to say, but I wonder whether the fact that we have no chant for Dan played any part in his penalty miss. I felt really awkward and ashamed when we had been loudly hissing every Polish taker, and came out with a chant for each of our first four takers, and then it was just eerily silent when DJ walked up as if everyone noticed we had nothing to sing. Might have been slightly unnerving for him, knowing it was the deciding penalty and then everything just goes quiet for the first time in the shootout. I think your looking into it way too much there. The players block it all out I imagine but I did notice the lack of a chant for DJ as he stepped up. |
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Post by iot on Mar 28, 2024 13:58:08 GMT
Sounds very silly to say, but I wonder whether the fact that we have no chant for Dan played any part in his penalty miss. I felt really awkward and ashamed when we had been loudly hissing every Polish taker, and came out with a chant for each of our first four takers, and then it was just eerily silent when DJ walked up as if everyone noticed we had nothing to sing. Might have been slightly unnerving for him, knowing it was the deciding penalty and then everything just goes quiet for the first time in the shootout. I think your looking into it way too much there. The players block it all out I imagine but I did notice the lack of a chant for DJ as he stepped up. Yeah, as I say probably a silly (some would say very stupid) thing to say, although the pressure of the moment and the surroundings obviously do play a part, otherwise it would be just like taking one in the park and 90%+ of penalties would be scored. Just got me thinking whether the sudden change in the noise level and lack of backing for James played any part, however small. |
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Post by ddirpytnop on Mar 28, 2024 15:21:41 GMT
I have watched Poland either live or on TV half a dozen times over the last two years. They are not a good team and are a thoroughly miserable watch - just as they were last night. The disappointing thing is that we failed to capitalise on their failings. They deservedly won the penalty shoot-out - but the game itself? Nah. We didn't play as well as we can but we were by far the more likely to score in normal time. Really? I thought they looked far more comfortable on the ball, and were much more confident in possession. They also pressed much better, and gave us very little time on the ball. While they seemed to move up the pitch with relative ease, in contrast, we laboured out of defence each time, and resorted to playing hoof ball up to Moore. The Polish press wasn't particularly effective and we didn't labour playing out from the back. We freqeuently chose to go long to Moore because that was what we were set up to do - not because we were forced to do so. Poland play a different game to us, one which is based around a slow build much of the time whereas we generally seek to get the ball forward as quickly as possible (and lose it much more quickly too as a result). That said, Poland also went long to Lewandowski on occasion, and in fairness to him, he is very skilled at holding up play. For all Poland's possession, they did precious little with it and their star striker frequently came back to the middle of the pitch in order to try and make something happen. That's one of the reason's why he had so few goal scoring opportunities. |
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Post by allezlesrouges on Mar 28, 2024 18:06:35 GMT
I know there's been chat about how we nullified a threat by moving him backwards. But I think one thing that's been missed is that he actually played quite well as a RWB and did his defensive responsibilities well
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Post by winsumluzsum on Mar 28, 2024 18:42:30 GMT
I know there's been chat about how we nullified a threat by moving him backwards. But I think one thing that's been missed is that he actually played quite well as a RWB and did his defensive responsibilities well Agreed, but he also got forwards a lot more than people realise. It would be good to experiment further with him at RWB. Him and Neco would potentially offer one he'll of a threat out wide. |
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Post by talyfan on Mar 28, 2024 18:47:04 GMT
Don't think he put much of a foot wrong either just think we could've done with his exploits further up the pitch.
Page got to trust the wider squad more instead of shoehorning them in
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Post by winsumluzsum on Mar 28, 2024 19:19:56 GMT
First half of extra time James got forwards a lot, mainly into central areas, where he was a threat. He often got ahead of Brooks who held the width out wide. We got the better of the play in that first half of ET in my opinion, so it was a qualified success. Second half the whole team sat deep, so James et Al were defending throughout. He did well, although he could have got tighter one or two times to prevent crosses into the box.
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Post by rushy on Mar 30, 2024 10:44:38 GMT
James is simply not a penalty taker, however I thought the run up of Lewandowski was ludicrous and should not be allowed , so many minor changes to the game these days but they are having significant effects on the game.
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Post by fiveattheback on Mar 30, 2024 14:23:35 GMT
James is simply not a penalty taker, however I thought the run up of Lewandowski was ludicrous and should not be allowed , so many minor changes to the game these days but they are having significant effects on the game. I always thought it was meant to be one smooth motion |
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Post by CrackityJones on Apr 1, 2024 21:00:42 GMT
Daniel James take a bow. Pleased for him
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Post by manulike on Apr 1, 2024 21:01:29 GMT
OUTRAGEOUS! 60m angled shot Gets a HUGE hug from Farke ;-)
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Post by surge on Apr 1, 2024 21:03:17 GMT
Really pleased for him and he should have had an extra assist in the first half if Bamford hasn't gone with his wrong foot from inches out.
He's been through a lot in his young years and keeps coming back strong.
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Post by jono on Apr 1, 2024 21:20:00 GMT
Delighted for him. One of the first names on the team sheet for me. Clearly not for Roberto Page.
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Post by morg on Apr 1, 2024 21:28:16 GMT
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Post by welshrover on Apr 2, 2024 9:49:24 GMT
Perhaps Rob Page was ahead of the game playing him at wing back 😊
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Post by welshrover on Apr 22, 2024 21:03:48 GMT
Looks right bad laid out on the deck, the rest of the team and management celebrating the win!!
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Post by manulike on Apr 22, 2024 21:11:29 GMT
Looks right bad laid out on the deck, the rest of the team and management celebrating the win!! Yes. Sadly. Looks like a hip flexor injury to me ;-( Hopefully, it might just be a impact strain, but may well still be out for Friday.
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Post by welshrover on Apr 23, 2024 10:40:20 GMT
Looks right bad laid out on the deck, the rest of the team and management celebrating the win!! Yes. Sadly. Looks like a hip flexor injury to me ;-( Hopefully, it might just be a impact strain, but may well still be out for Friday.
Joe Rodon was also struggling for the last few minutes. Going slightly off topic Leeds goalkeeper looks like an accident waiting to happen! |
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Post by manulike on Apr 23, 2024 15:51:18 GMT
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Post by surge on May 26, 2024 16:01:09 GMT
Inches away from a sensational goal at Wembley. Been Leeds biggest threat going forward today and had to come off the bench to do it.
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Post by hooky on May 26, 2024 16:31:51 GMT
Leeds manager is clueless
Zero punch upfront and a couple of extremely mediocre forwards
James should have started and yet the manager waits until there is just 30min or so left to bring James on
Not at all surprising to see how much more dangerous Leeds were when James came on
James should be playing bottom half Premiership and definitely not on the sub bench of a team with a mediocre Championship attaching lineup!
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