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!

[honky cat]

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It wont happen but tonights the night for a pitch invasion

[El Scorchio]

Why is Paqueta marking a central defender?

[goose]

lol 

can we sack this cսnt at half time?

[nychammer]

its laughable. we are royally fucked in all ways

[twoleftfeet]

2-0

Fuck me this is horrendous. Get Igor, Magassa, Potts and Wilson on

[Far Cough UKunt]

The root cause of all this is Sullivan giving that cսnt Lopetegui keys to the fucking safe. 

2-0

[Come On You Irons]

This could be 6-0 tonight.

Get this fucking piss taking cսnt out of the manager's job tonight. Wanker!

[El Scorchio]

Scarles is way out of his depth here. With Todibo as the RCB rushing out and this is an utter recipe for disaster.

2-0

Nuno has made us worse than under Potter. How is that possible? Was he upset we'd learned to defend crosses a bit better?

[RootsRadical]

Fucking 2 nil.

[Massive Attack]

GET NUNOTHING OUT THE CLUB ALONG WITH SULLIVAN AND BRADY. 

SABOTAGING CLUB KILLING CUNTS 

[Gaffer58]

Over the last few games he’s changed e.very players position looking for inspiration except the 2 centre half’s, memo to Nuno, the centre half’s are the main problem.

[Lee Trundle]

Forget about the ref and what he's doing.

He walks into our starting line up.  Whatever position he wants to play.

[El Scorchio]

Who would have thought Leeds are playing long straight balls up the middle? Wonder where they got that idea from. A pub side would give us a decent game at the moment.

[onsideman]

They waltzed through our midfield for the goal... and again just then. 

[Ron Eff]

I’m beginning to think this fucking idiot doesn’t know his left and rights. 

[goose]

So far the ref has ignored the fella jumping into Irving and the late challenge on Paqueta.

[RootsRadical]

WTF is going on here.

Don't know weather to laugh, cry or top myself.
Never seen anything like this in my 60 years of following the club.

[Nutsin]

Scarles asleep at the wheel. What’s new.

Shocking defending.

[El Scorchio]

I fuckin' hate what passes for modern football management.

I know inverted wingers are fashionable these days but playing the full backs on their wrong foot to counter that is misguided and must be a pure nod in tribute to Malcolm Allison in his second spell at Citeh way back in the day.

Mental 

 

 

Exactly- if it actually worked, other teams would do it.

NO OTHER TEAMS DO IT BECAUSE IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA

[Django]

What an absolute joke. I hope the fans start giving it to nuno for this suicidal approach. 

[El Scorchio]

Ref looks fucking piss weak already

[eusebiovic]

I fuckin' hate what passes for modern football management.

I know inverted wingers are fashionable these days but playing the full backs on their wrong foot to counter that is misguided and must be a pure nod in tribute to Malcolm Allison in his second spell at Citeh way back in the day.

Mental 

[El Scorchio]

WHY THE FUCK ARE THE FULL BACKS ON THE WRONG SIDE?
WHAT IS HE DOING?

[violator]

This season's Southampton 

[honky cat]

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