Birmingham City v Leeds Utd Match Thread

[SG90]

Jansson will go, we tried to sell him last summer.

Clarke will go, he has potential and Man City would think nothing of spending 10-15mil on Clarke and loaning him out, no question, did exactly the same with Patrick Roberts a few years back.

Phillips i agree with, in our system with the time he is allowed is ok, in the Prem at a lower table team he'd be in trouble but someone may take the risk.

Roofe has a decent season, same as Phillips and especially with his contract running down.

Klich to is another.

We know there will be sales, at least a couple and i dont think we can afford MB for another season.

Clubs need English/homegrown players and they know we're a selling club, so they will be after our players. Klopp is keen on Clarke too. Not forgetting Bundesliga clubs will be interested in Clarke and Shack too.

[1964white]

Can't believe the stick Phillips is receiving from some on here

Kalvin was easily our best outfield player today

[Mick Jones shoulder]

No one covered themselves in glory today people. Last week and today are probably our poorest displays. Still time to put it right but in all honesty we are still over achieving.

[1964white]

thats about it and Phillips again shown for the poor defender he is.

Sorry I'm not having that !

Phillips was our best outfield player today

Several interceptions
A couple of great tackles, one a real cruncher with a Brum player being stretchered off.
Won headers from set-pieces.
Sprayed the ball around better than any of our other players, three wonderful long passes down the flanks.

Pick on Cooper for their goal who allowed Adams to get in his shot plus some other real dodgy moments, reminding me of last season's Cooper we all know

[Cjay]

Sorry I'm not having that !

Phillips was our best outfield player today

Several interceptions
A couple of great tackles, one a real cruncher with a Brum player being stretchered off.
Won headers from set-pieces.
Sprayed the ball around better than any of our other players, three wonderful long passes down the flanks.

Pick on Cooper for their goal who allowed Adams to get in his shot plus some other real dodgy moments, reminding me of last season's Cooper we all know

He made one great challenge near the end and the cruncher you mentioned.

But are we just going to pretend Casilla didnt bail him out twice when Adams bullied him?

Casilla saved Phillips from being responsible for 2 goals plain and simple.

Agree with you on Cooper though.

Cooper is regressing to his natural level at the wrong time and that is very worrying, Casilla bailed him out to when Jutkiewicz (who is as fast as a snail) got in behind him and outpaced him.

[Mick Jones shoulder]

I think we have players who have bought into the hype. Cooper thinks he's Ronald Koeman unfortunately he couldn't pick his nose let alone a pass. They all need to concentrate on their particular jobs. Phillips no worse or better than anyone else imo.

[1964white]

He made one great challenge near the end and the cruncher you mentioned.

But are we just going to pretend Casilla didnt bail him out twice when Adams bullied him?

Casilla saved Phillips from being responsible for 2 goals plain and simple.

Agree with you on Cooper though.

Cooper is regressing to his natural level at the wrong time and that is very worrying, Casilla bailed him out to when Jutkiewicz (who is as fast as a snail) got in behind him and outpaced him.

Thing is Pontus or Cooper should have been marking their big free-scoring No.9 not Phillips, there was an occasion in the first-half when Alioski was marking one of their big men at a set-piece. Is it any wonder why we are all over the place defensively?

[Cjay]

Thing is Pontus or Cooper should have been marking their big free-scoring No.9 not Phillips, there was an occasion in the first-half when Alioski was marking one of their big men at a set-piece. Is it any wonder why we are all over the place defensively?

Problem is the big strong number 9 is actually Jutkiewicz.

He is the target man.

Adams isnt but Adams is powerful and quick which makes them a nightmare.

It was Adams who bullied Phillips not Jutkiewicz.

They had so much height and power, we reverted to lobbing the ball forward more and more after Roofe came on which made no sense

[BGwhite]

I'd take both of Blues front 2 over ours all day long. Something Leeds have lacked for many years is height and power and not just upfront. Leeds really do struggle against big teams for this reason and it seems to me that particularly championship teams are getting bigger and Leeds need to address this within their own squad.

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[1964white]

After what I can only describe as a shambles here are my positive/negatives/ratings

Positives

Kiko's saves plus he is like our last-ditch defender clearing up the mess in front of him
Phillips crunching tackle

Negatives

Bamford's missed chances again, another open goal
Camp only had one save to make from our only header on target
We couldn't have scored if we played all night
Inability to keep a clean sheet
Numerous wasted corner-kicks.
One decent cross in 90 minutes
Cooper looking more & more like the Cooper of last season
Alioski couldn't beat a man
Harrison couldn't do anything
When Pablo is not on song we look poor
Poor substitutions
We needed energy/pace on the pitch, Shackleton the obvious choice
Roofe doesn't look fit
Clarke has a big future but not this season as he doesn't seem to hace recovered from his illness & is of course still very raw
Dilly-dally Dallas is Dallas.
We got worse with the introduction of our three subs
Our only hope Pablo walking out of St Andrews with a protective boot on

9 Casilla MOTM
6 Ayling
6 Jansson
5 Cooper
5 Alioski
7 Phillips
5 Hernandez
6 Klich
5 Roberts
2 Harrison
2 Bamford
Subs
3 Roofe
3 Clarke
3 Dallas

[1964white]

Didn't realise Birmingham had 20+ goalscorer in their team

If only

Well his record in the championship did make me think he would cause us problems, he certainly did that, a real handful

[The Subhuman]

TBF Roofe would have had 20 plus by now had he not missed 14 games and then put in midfield for 2.