Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

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Well after the disaster of Monday at Brentford, the thought of more West Ham in the same week is enough to put anyone in a bad mood.  The 'pros' always talk about wanting to get bad games out of their system quickly, and this gives them that opportunity, but also sets up a horrible start to the weekend for the rest of us!

Teamwise, Mavro is out with what looked a nasty hamstring injury.  Fullkrug is still broken, and Earthy remains unfit.  Otherwise the rest of the squad are fit from a health perspective....maybe less so from a 'wear the shirt' angle.

Nuno's logic for his inverted fullbacks it's been revealed was to try and counter Brentford's inverted wing thread, by showing them onto the defender's strong foot...the less said about the success of that the better.  And it struggles to explain Irving and Soucek in the pivot, beyond maybe 'they're both tall'.

Anyway, hopefully that's the last of the experimentation and we can revert to what at least appears a bit less shit.  Wouldn't surprise me to see him go with a back 5 in this game though (and what I'll assume for my predicted XI).

Predicted lineup:

Areola

Wan Bissaka    Kilman     Igor   
Summerville                                            Diouf
Magassa Fernandes Paqueta

Soucek

Bowen

Subs: Hermansen, KWP, Todibo, Scarles, Potts, Irving, Guilherme, Wilson, Marshall

The squad is now a real quandary.  We don't have a good CB pairing...Todibo looks hopeless, Kilman and Igor both left footed, with one an unknown and the other weak as the senior CB.  Mavro was signed to be 3rd choice, but he's suddenly the most important man in the back line...a problem in itself.

Summerville is a must have...the only true pace in the side so leaving him out can't be compromised.  If 3 at the back and 3-4-3 was viable, not a problem....but once again we don't have a midfield with a logical two-man pairing.  Add in that Bwoen and Soucek are the only goals, and Paqueta is the only real 'vision' and we are in a bad place with a squad that don't work in combination.

So will he gamble on a bad back two, an untried midfield pair, or leave out one of the 'key' players in Soucek, Bowen, Paqueta, and Summerville.

And as for playing a real striker....

Predicted Score: Leeds 2 : 0 West Ham.

Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.

COYI!

[goose]

Todibo has kept 1 clean sheet in all his appearances for us  

[kinglewy]

I feel for our fans that have travelled up there.

[Alwaysaniron]

Has Nuno had a fucking massive whack around the Vince. Who in their right mind picks that midfield. Even fucking Sheffield Wednesday wouldn’t pick that midfield. 

[Takashi Miike]

the midget is probably reading all these comments and laughing his head off, he's that fucking spiteful

[Any Old Iron]

This cսnt Nuno is gaslighting us.   Everyone slagged him for Mondays line up and so he doubles down.  What a fucking clown.  
Leeds must be licking their lips at the prospect of playing through that lot.  If he carries on like this for much longer then we’ll be looking for yet another manager.

[the coming of gary]

Takashi and massive attack are right

No - compo managers on the cheap

Someone else's failure becomes our failure
.

[Dick Shaftsbury]

Absolutely outrageous that he has picked that team after team after last week.

[kinglewy]

We are all getting shafted from our own fucking football club.

[Vexed]

I don’t wanna be too negative before a ball is even kicked………. But wtf is that team??

How can anyone look at Soucek & Irving together and think “that worked well last time”.

its just mental.

 

 

I dont think you can be too negative about that absolute cսnt of a guaranteed loss team. 

That's an 'I want another payoff please' starting lineup. No fucking striker on the pitch, our seventh choice midfielder, the slowest man in the world and reportedly the not very good Scarles getting played at right fucking back again despite having zero ability with his right foot. An absolute cսnt of a lineup and if it wasn't for the levels of stupid that came before him sackable in its own right. 

How have we managed to employ someone even more stupid than Potter? 

If we dont lose tonight I will be absolutely fucking shocked. 

[boleyn8420]

I was taking the piss earlier, it now makes me look a visionary. Awful line-up, no strikeragain. Wanker

[Keep dreaming]

Congratulations Massive , your unsung hero is getting the nod on e again.
It isn't because of his last performance, maybe it's enough to be a nice guy?

[goose]

I don’t wanna be too negative before a ball is even kicked………. But wtf is that team??

How can anyone look at Soucek & Irving together and think “that worked well last time”.

its just mental.

[Metroplex]

Jesus fucking wept ,another shocking line up

[North Bank]

Nuno has lost the fucking plot, Soucek and Irving over Potts, Magassa and Fernandes, no striker and Paqueta as a false player and don't get me started on Todibo 

We're fucked this season, unless Nuno come to his senses 

[Keep dreaming]

God almighty. Nuno is on a mission to fuck things up.
What on earth is going on? Is the earth flat too?

[Come On You Irons]

What kind of fucking line up is that?

This fella's taking the piss.

[Far Cough UKunt]

I can see a Watford run of managers stylee in the offing.

[Ron Eff]

I get he has to start Todibo and Kilman as i believe that new fella from Brighton is shit in the air, but 3 fullbacks and the slowest pair of midfielders playing football in all 4 leagues. He is a more defensive manager than Potter, i am really not sure why everyone was pleased we got him, maybe just pleased that Potter had gone. Just amazed with this lineup.

While Todibo and Kilman are great in the air. Shitting themselves with up and unders. 

[Ron Eff]

Fernandes might not have been brilliant, but he’s looked more effective than most and at least has legs. How he and Magassa or Potts aren’t starting to fit in Irving and Soucek is beyond madness. 

It seems so obvious to me.

Magassa/Potts + Fernandes

Paqueta

Bowen + Summerville

Wilson

I can’t be the only one that thinks this. How does he not see it?

[claret on my shirt]

I get he has to start Todibo and Kilman as i believe that new fella from Brighton is shit in the air, but 3 fullbacks and the slowest pair of midfielders playing football in all 4 leagues. He is a more defensive manager than Potter, i am really not sure why everyone was pleased we got him, maybe just pleased that Potter had gone. Just amazed with this lineup.

[violator]

Lost for words

[Django]

2 down by half time before he changes it 

 

 

And then brings on kwp, igor and Rodriguez 

[threesixty]

I really believed in this guy. I thought he was serious. Now he has to waste about a hundred games finding out that a slow, uncreative and weak midfield can’t win games in the PL. Like that’s some new revelation? 

We got pinned back on Monday because of this. My only hope is that he’s kidnapped some of their wives and told them to play properly or else she gets it in the neck! 

and even with that threat I don’t think they can play better than they do.

honestly, I have no idea what’s going on at this club anymore. This is the twilight zone. Nothing that happens at this club makes any sense. 

just hoping this text looks like a dumb knee jerk reaction in a few hours time… 

[zico]

You know the clubs recruitment is bad when Wilson, Magassa and Fernandes can't even get into the team. Why on earth sign Wilson? One thing we arguably have got going for us is the crossing ability of Diouf so why not play a striker? I can't even hazard a guess at where they are going to play. Surely not Scarles at right back again? Or is it going to be an inspired decision to play him on the left of a back three? If so that leaves two in midfield and the electrifying pace of Tomas and Andy. Or will if make it a three with Paqueta in there with absolutely no forward at all and do a Big Sam away at Spurs and go striker less? No blinking idea.

[stubbo-admin]

Looks like 3-4-3

Scarles is terrible tracking ball flight. Todibo bad in the air. Kilman couldn't organise a school crossing. 

Got disaster written all over it.