Slow, scared, soft, second best

I'm bemused. Slow to every loose ball. Slow to move the ball on. Slow to support. They look scared and woefully short. Second best might be putting it kindly.

Moncur (who I like) looks so far off the pace especially. Williams looking nowt like his usual.

 

This seems to be said every home game, these days.

 

Seamless continuation from Tuesday. Abysmal and unacceptable.

 

Got to disagree Mario ,
I thought we at least competed on Tuesday in the main even though we didn't play as we normally have done., one or two players hiding in both games , Unacceptable and needs rooting out.
I can forgive e players bad games or bad decisions but hiding no way.
Agree a out today though

 

We need to cut our losses with George

 

I think we looked slightly more competitive on Tuesday only because Leeds were better than Cardiff. I'm with you though; playing to win and losing can be forgiven but today was unacceptable.

 

I thought Leeds were actually quite good. Their passing, closing down and direct play made us look like a team from a lower division. Where we go wrong is the system we play. Everything goes down the wings. Leeds know that and so put 2 or 3 players on the wingers and deny them space. Bradshaw was isolated like Thiam was on Tuesday and the 3 central midfielders don't create anything because they're not expected to. Then two of them get taken off at half-time unsurprisingly. The only chance I can remember that came through the middle was when Yiadom cut inside late on and slid a lovely ball to someone who trod on it or summat.

Our players are programmed to play a certain way and not to think creatively and independently. As soon as the opposition suss out our system they stop us playing and we don't have the wit to come up with a Plan B.