Today's games

[Tynemouth Blade]

Brentford lead at Boro

Which in itself is funny (for me) as for the past couple of nights they've interviewed Boro players on BBC Look North here and they've been saying how they can still get an auto promotion spot!

 

[Freethinker]

So true, so many twists and turns to come. This will come down to bottle.

I totally agree with that sentiment bottle and mental strength will be the key

 

[Booker4]

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/leeds-united-patrick-bamford-injury-15948520

Of interest.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Leeds are starting to look dangerous for this run in now. The West Brom performance / result has given them the belief. I don’t see many teams being able to live with them between now and the end of the season. I’ve a feeling we’re going to need 90 points + to go up.

I think we’ll struggle with their style at their place. We’re not great when we’re being harried and pressed, often ends in us becoming quite disjointed (a la Wednesday away).

Disagree, you can’t judge a team in 1 or 2 performances.

You should judge Leeds based on their last 10 performances and based on that we are the better team.
Leeds haven’t shown any consistency “performance wise” all season, they just have spurts of intensive attacking.
Logic suggests (based on what’s gone before) is that they won’t perform at their best against us next week.

 

[Sheffsteel]

The 'Leeds are collapsing' narrative is wishful thinking bollocks. They've climbed back into second again today, with another win against an apparently good side. They aren't going anywhere, we'll have to be very good to get past them.

Guesty, you are basing you judgement on 2 excellent performances.
I’d give it a few more matches before assessing whether Leeds are the real deal but many who have watched most of their last 10 games have doubts over their credentials with their underwhelming displays and last minute goals.

Maybe they are coming good right at the business end of the season.
Promotion teams often have a really impressive run to finish the season.
If Leeds beat us next week and keep up their good form then they’ll deserve promotion, no complaints.

 

[Guesty]

Guesty, you are basing you judgement on 2 excellent performances.
I’d give it a few more matches before assessing whether Leeds are the real deal but many who have watched most of their last 10 games have doubts over their credentials.

Maybe they are coming good right at the business end of the season.
Promotion teams often have a really impressive run to finish the season.
If Leeds beat us next week and keep up their good form then they’ll deserve promotion, no complaints.

No, I'm also judging it on the fact that they're second. Second! What sort of collapse doesn't take a team out of the automatic places? However they've played recently, they've accumulated enough points to stay above us. So any notion that they've already fallen apart a) is very fanciful and b) doesn't bode well for us, since they sit about us.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

No, I'm also judging it on the fact that they're second. Second! What sort of collapse doesn't take a team out of the automatic places? However they've played recently, they've accumulated enough points to stay above us. So any notion that they've already fallen apart a) is very fanciful and b) doesn't bode well for us, since they sit about us.

They’ve also really dominated in their last couple of games against strong opposition. I don’t see their performance level dropping. At the moment, looking at their run in I can’t see us getting past them.

 

[bromtom]

They’ve also really dominated in their last couple of games against strong opposition. I don’t see their performance level dropping. At the moment, looking at their run in I can’t see us getting past them.

Think that's needlessly pessimistic at this stage, Bristol are badly out of form after that good run, LLLD in all competitions going into the Leeds game.

Plenty of football to go.