Post Match Reactions - Round 14

[JB@Norwich]

Missing
Betis and Fulham

Errors



Error Watch
wba - 1
ful - 2
sch - 2

[Sam@Bilbao]

Boro 3-2 PSV

"Lucky win for Boro to be honest, didnt deserve to win and were battered for most of the game, fame has obviously gone to Mbappes head, lads have all been furious with him all week walking around as if he owns the place, so when a more than acceptable offer came in we shipped him off, could see it in his performance tonight, his mind was already in the italian capital and i was tempted to drag him off at half time, Malen who has been terrific for us this season and notched his 7th and 8th of the campaign but when we needed our so called star man Mbappe to make the difference he was too busy taking selfies of himself pitch side, he left as soon as the game finished and its a shame because what was such a humble lad has now become something completely different, the fans made their voices heard late on when he ballooned his 4th chance of the game over the bar, a game we could've easily won but hey ho, the nigerian prince turns up later today and we expect to have much better fortune with Victor leading the line for the rest of the season."

[Ian]

Villarreal 1-0 Sunderland

A welcome three points for Villarreal as victories have understandably been difficult to come by this season. It was an early goal for the home sides John Cordoba that was the difference and also helped settle the nerves of not only the players but the crowd. It was also a game that failed to produce a huge amount of goal action from either of these two teams but it was Ian Greaves boys who had the better of the chances on offer. The win just about deserved and gives a boost to the struggling Spanish outfit.

[Ray@Wolves]

Watford 0
Booked: R_Manaj (87)

Wolves 2
T_Mitchell (4) C_Gakpo (47)
Booked: M_Bird (82), Melendo (92)

MotM: T_Mitchell (Wolves)
HT: 0-2

Great result, but in truth we got a bit lucky in this game to follow up on our massive luck in the last league game. We sewed this match up by half time and we gratefully scarper out of Vicarage Road and back up to the black country with all three points. Stats wise we were equal on possession but they had 9 shots on target to our 4. Manuel Neuer had a great game in goal and deserved his hard won clean sheet as he edges ever closer to becoming a 22 rated keeper. Cody Gakpo scored again and he's another creeping very close to rating up too.

Very unlucky Tony, the result didn't reflect just how close a game this was.

Game 15 sees us entertain Real Betis in another must win game if we are to keep pace at the top of a very tight table.

[Eduardo]

Königsblauen 2 - 1 Baggies

A narrow win against The Baggies. Florent Mollet and Joaquin Correa with the goals. Both scoring their fifth of the season. Winning home games in this league is neccessary if we want a playoff spot.

Well played Frank.

[Ed@PSG]

Cardiff 0 Feyenoord 1
Another abject performance. You would never know we had the 3rd highest wagebill in the conference. Struggling to finds things to say to stretch to 50 words, other than the team is playing shite. Thought we getting a mini run together, but it would appear not.
GG Nick

[Freddie]

Nottingham Forest 1-0 Sociedad

Watched from the stands as Neil’s teamsheet was used. Fairly even game but Matt’s side nicked it by the one goal. We are in a position where we it would be quite possible to rise up the table or go the other way and drop down a fair bit. We have the squad to do well and now it’s up to me to try and make us serious league contenders. Thanks to Neil for doing a great job with the club.

[Tim@Leeds]

Porto 3 - 1 Atalanta

Porto we’re just about the better team on the day and because they are not Leeds they win comfortably enough and the score line reflects the stats.
nice to have a full strength squad to chose from which is a rarity for Leeds but not for these boys
decent result again gets us back in the groove after a slip up last time out.
3 points off top but only joint 8th highlights the closeness of this league. Very competitive.

played whoever the hell is managing whoever the hell we played. Ta

[Ryan]

Porto 3 - 1 Atalanta

An absolute nightmare of late lol my time at Atlanta been a bad one simply just shit with them cnt buy a win unless it's in the WM-Cup think next game I need to just have 5-2-3-0D or something lol I really thought we'd have done OK and been atleast four or five places above rock bottom but this ain't the case and not sure what to do or were to go from here as were just conference whipping boys at moment.

[AB@Juventus]

Middlesbrough 3 - 2 PSV

Lovely to beat the team who were going to run away with the league pre-season.

P vs P and we took the lead after 19 minutes, giving us TA, however a quick 1-2 for PSV gave them the lead and we set off on the hunt for a response.

Half time came and went and it looked like we'd struggle to get anything from the game, until R_Muniz (The player PSV have made 8 offers for in the last 2 months popped up with a goal to bring us level....Only to score his 2nd with 5 minutes remaining to give us all 3 points.

Statistically it was fairly even so HA, or superior management, must have played a factor in this one.

We're back up to 2nd, right behind Wolves. Good game Sam.

[Johnboy]

Derby County 5 - RB Leipzig 2

A second big result in 3 league games saw us begin our journey up the table.

We took an early lead through Icardi but conceded an equaliser shortly before half time. We made a few substitutions in the second half before 3 goals in 8 minutes saw us run away the game somewhat with both Bakhuizen and Pukki coming off the bench to score.

Leipzig scored a second with 10 minutes to go which had me concerned that we might somehow throw the game away but we held on and with a minute to go Sanson scored his second of the match and we came away with a somewhat undeserved victory.

We are still looking to bring in reinforcements either on loan or on permanent deals but we are struggling to get what we want in the current market so it's got to be a case of working with what we've got to propel ourselves up the table.

Good game Mike, good luck for the rest of the season

[Guest]

Ajax 2 - 1 Bristol City

Having a bit of sticky patch at the moment and a close away defeat here. We edged the stats, but not by enough of a margin for me to have any real complaints.

Andy King had another match where he did nothing of note, gaining zero abs. Will be having a stern word with him before the Cardiff game as he needs to buck his ideas up.

Sorry for the delay - have been away with limited internet for the past couple of days, but back in the UK now.