Match reaction · Huddersfield Town 1-1 Leeds United

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The match ball hello there welcome to the show brought to you in association with Levi solicitors Levi solicitors doc. ukthe Square ball for your 10% discount on your legal fees I’ll throw to you Michael where you can uh you were picked aart W you on wo by the way well it’s

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True I do I do remember those three we should allow people to send send in their own versions of it you’re if you’re so good at it you come and do it you little Cheeky Monkey but you know we need it don’t we just what pce for the

Three podcast I suppose or something yeah anyway thanks to those guys yeah check out check out the services with a discount thank you um one all today against ERS field a a frustrating day wasn’t it yeah I feel like I’m owed at least another half an hour of football it was

It was classic Championship he sort of Vibes about that we we got full championships there I think yeah I pretty much hated everything about it the first half lasted 55 minutes the ball was in play 22 and a half minutes which is mental and then you know they

Were kicking us all over the place but then we were just crap and kind of fell for it all didn’t we as well I know um I know when the ball’s out of play possession stats don’t count but if they did their goalkeeper would have had the most possession today because it was

Basically just the second half just felt like waiting to him to take goal kicks and it was like come on it’s just so boring and so frustrating you got into a cycle of time in everything didn’t you like right so he’s got it at 15 seconds

Past that’s how long it takes him to kick this you’re like why is he he caught that and why is he still why has he still got it in his hands like 30 seconds later well that’s that wasn’t the problem was it the problem was we made bad decisions today and didn’t

Didn’t work out a good enough way to to beat him but you know important thing is that we didn’t lose no we should have won um given the the circumstances of the second half talking Point’s going to be the red card very hard to find arguments with I mean they hated the ref

But if you if you watch that on telly rather than being in the stadium and get sucked up you know sucked up in by the atmosphere I think he probably had a pretty good game one of the better refs we’ve had actually yeah I mean the it

Was um the goalkeeper at the end was saying he he not seen the red card back but he thought the referee had been a bit soft but I mean Hogs to things they’re two boardline Reds in himself I think the elbow is a straight red probably yeah CU he sees him coming and

Just if have caught him in the in the face rather than on the neck I think does get his jar don’t he him on the chin don’t he but he’s been trying his best to get sent off in both games against lead this season so it was like

The least surprising red card we actually called it didn’t we we we Ching about saying he won’t last the game here and the um was it Pearson his tackle on sville in the first half was really bad where he sort of rates his studs down both of his carbs which was a strange

But again yeah we just weren’t particularly good enough which I can kind of understand because you go from the highs of Leicester and then another big game at Chelsea there is going to be a lull eventually but I think the thing I found frustrating about today is that

The players that seem to I mean everyone kind of didn’t play well but the ones that really underwhelmed were kind of the ones that didn’t actually play against Chelsea in midweek and you’d kind of expect them to be a little bit fresher but camaru wasn’t great in that

First half nto like could have gone off at half time CU he was just giving away free kicks constantly rter was kind of invisible in that second half it was yeah really frustrating day um yeah would you have made Subs earlier because we were chatting about saying do you

Roll the dice at half time maybe or I suppose fer has to then spend 1550 minutes maybe susing out exactly what it is that um hfield were doing in that second half I’d certainly have done James for nonto at half time right I can see why he left the other stuff but I’d

Have done that one at half time because it wasn’t working for nonto so and you kind of know the shape of the game at going in that second half because of them being down at 10 men and a goal up you know it’s going to be completely

Backs to the wall stuff from them and I’ve just felt like it was an opportunity to change it yeah rather than have rather than do I can sometimes I can see why he wants to almost get a feel for the second half and then make a

Move based on that and I suppose maybe he’s judging to see what they do at half time arguably yeah because they did make a change didn’t they took ward off for a defender or field bringing James on fernandoo wouldn’t have changed our shape so it was um I mean 60 Minutes was

When he made the changes and that is kind of early for farer but it felt like if ever there was a game for him to make halftime Subs it was this one and it was weird as well because James was warming up like 10 minutes before half time yeah

When nonto would look like he might be carrying that injury yeah he he didn’t have the most effective day today nonto did he and we we were getting frustrated in that second half when we when it was all us if you look at the momentum graph

It is all us um we were getting frustrated in that second half because we kept going down the left to Somerville and Somerville obviously is having a great season he’s very effective but it just felt like his decision making wasn’t there today he kept cutting in and just running into

Bodies or trying doing those little interchanges of passes at times well it’s just it was the same thing over and over again there were two players on him at all times there was Roni and their fullback who were both marking him and then by the time he they was almost

Letting him go inside but then when he got inside there was a big group of people so he was always trying to shoot through a crowd and I mean supposed with the width of a poster from it coming off because he did he did nearly score he

Had he should have probably scored first half as well MH I think that’s the frustrating thing because we did create enough chances to win the game and set pieces aside which I know you can’t put set pieces aside but I’m gonna um they didn’t they didn’t have any chances they

Don’t I don’t feel like they created anything there were a couple of saves from Melia first half from set piece one which ultimately led to the them following in but it didn’t feel like there was any threat from them other than that mhm but then we I think we

Play into the Hands by giving away free kicks and giving away um like the the goal in fact came from that came from a death free kick we gave away yeah yeah yeah was that non so I can’t remember but I’m sure someone out there did some

D committed to a foul when tack when they didn’t need to and it was obvious they were that was going to be a plan of theirs was to make the most to set pieces which again you got to say well you can do it yeah there’s no there’s no

Rule book about how you should play is it you see the alternative approach of like Swansea and yeah you can you can completely see why you go right look solid kick him a bit play for set pieces yeah worked and it worked yeah fair enough yeah fair enough I mean the I

Think the other thing to say from this is that we were getting quite frustrated and quite head up there towards the end but I feel all right about it there’s a lot of football still to be played you know points will be dropped all over the

Place now is not the time to lose your and lose your nerve you just move on to Tuesday make sure we get it done against Stoke and then Wednesday on Friday I mean it’s March and we’ve dropped our first points of the year I

Was going to say when you see it’s 20 eight points from the last 30 can’t really complain about that it’s fine is it and and it’s one of those as well that if we do that again we’ll probably be all right it being a very championship week get a chance to win in

In a few days don’t we just go and do that it’s fine yeah move it move on another knock a couple more wins together quickly and everything from this game disappears and you put it down to being one of those games yeah that you go that was annoying because we

Should have won 10 men better players etc etc but we didn’t but it UL Ely you hope it doesn’t matter yeah no I think that’s that’s a fair shot like I’m not in the in the business now I don’t think of uh of losing my over that

It’s frustrating but I mean it’s just it’s not it’s not feasible to win every game is it say that we say that 10 minutes ago we were all slightly losing the that’s true the frustration of watching that game but you can step back from it just a few minutes after the

Full time and go you know what okay I think it was just such a bad game to watch as well I think that’s the thing like I I think I said it half time I said God if football was like this all all the time you just won’t watch it

Would you because it was just it was a bit like um I felt a bit like when I watch a bit of NFL it’s just a series of set pieces it’s just like there’s about 30 seconds of action then there’s a break for a couple of minutes yeah then

Then just as you think oh maybe something’s getting going here no another throw in two throws in on the bounce rolls into a free kick rolls into a goal kick and it’s just like all of a sudden like five minutes has gone and absolutely nothing has happened

And there’s been about four passes just really really boring to watch there was that bit when um I think hog was booked for it was a tackle Somerville wasn’t it but he injured his own player yes but then there was a big break for both Somerville and their player to get

Treatment then there was five minutes before that player actually went off but nothing happened in between I think there was like three throwings or something it was insane yeah it was a good good move from hoggy though because the player who came on for the injured player scored their goal so makes makes

You think good thinking yeah good thinking that was funny that but he he was it su he managed he fouled Somerville into their player who led golf injured and reappeared on crutches I noticed it we were shouting for to come on weren’t we yeah Naki Yama it’s dead

Funny that uh notes wise I made quite a few detailed notes in that first half but then as soon as hog went off which have written down at 49 and then the halftime score the only note I’ve made in the second half or two actually bamford’s equalizer Roberts assist so

That was good do you think banford was possibly V Premier League pubic care offside it’s possible it’s hard because you only get the the angled view which as you know with v you can you when you when you actually look fully side on it can look different

Can’t it when it’s a bit of a an angle but he’s he’s onside enough say he’s not properly offside is he I thought he was on side on yeah and we take it obviously don’t we and then the other note that I’ve made was 86 minutes which was

Somerville’s post I think was just um just a typical sort of 10 against 11 attack against defense second half wasn’t it and you had the break through it or you down and we didn’t that’s it end of it yeah didn’t lose didn’t lose that was the frustrating thing though between um

Somerville hitting the post and then Bamford hit a shot wide right at the end it was 10 minutes and we didn’t actually create another chance it’s like you need to be bit better there if you’re on it and if we are on it then you do create a

Few more chances but kind of just there’s a lot of us attacking and nothing happening yeah yeah that’s true is that and then watching the same thing over this like I say the exact same attack over and over again as well but was that classic problem that we ran

Into earlier in the season wasn’t it where you’ve got an absolute mass of bodies around the area and we don’t quite know how to get through it and what to do with it I think we again we were getting frustrated with it going down the left all the time and not down

The right because you kind of just wanted Dan James to go basic on it and just stick it past the player and get him behind him because when we got him behind him down that right hand side that’s where the goal came from but one point down James come over at the left

Didn’t he was so sick of not of not seeing it over on his side he was like hell right fine I’ll go over and join the other two Wingers who already some good saves early dolls from um from Melia as well when they were being dangerous offet pieces one yeah there’s

The near post one it was there’s a sequence of a couple wasn’t the way yeah but one of them are you thinking of the second one where he saved it but then it went straight to that tapped it in 11 minutes uh it was the long distance shot

And Save which that’s yeah you should say that and then the near post um save no absolutely there were none of them that where you thought he he shouldn’t save that but he did his job well done their goal is a bit annoying that I

Think it was Danny Ward who won the ini header and he Road on ampadu and Nono all around him and I know Nono is only small but you do think how are there three players in the vicinity and he he basically has a fread which meler saves

And I know people a bit like could M done better but I start think why is Danny Ward getting a free header there it was pretty frustrating yeah same against Leicester one free near post header seems to be a bit a bit weak on it all of a sudden well let’s keep

Channeling um Daniel farker as you in a many in a very literal sense do Michael uh and just see where we are in a few games time I think it’s dead easy now dead easy to sort of look at every result that’s been defining and you

Don’t need to I don’t think that’s why I’m trying my best to kind of absorb it like that and just said you know what I’m not going to let that room a weekend I mean it is now the kick the 3 o’ kickoffs are kicking off as we speak we

Are streaming live on YouTube by the way for our TSB Plus members hello thank you for joining would because if if Sal and ipwi both lost this weekend then we’ gained a point then you then you’d gain a point them I know you’d still have slight regrets about not you know not

Taking more Advantage but you could also finish your weekend and go what’s better than it was yeah so I mean it’s unlikely but you know well if either of them drop points possible isn’t it and and there were lots and lots of points to be dropped between now and the end of the

Season and we have already established positively well well we know Southampton have finished obviously we mentioned that it were they’ve been temporarily revived temporarily unfinish unfinished Leicester are finished obviously yeah so it’s just it’s a basic thing leester fans are wrong said we’re going to win

Every game between now and this end of the season it’s a caner to the line isn’t it although Andy hinchcliff who was on Co com Co commentary today for Sky um predicted that we won’t lose another game could they just not have Hing cliff on I mean I arguably just

Have no one on any of his crimes today that stood out to you it was one bit where I I think I just said off in Cliff I can’t remember it was I can’t remember when some when some shot and he said if I’m going to criticize

Some he should have passed it into the net even though he was cutting inside and beating two men in the process and just tried to wrap his foot round M yeah then if he passes it and the keeper saves he goes it just needs to hit that

With a bit more Pace there I would have done the thing that would have resulted in a different outcome yeah it’s like it’s like the te would stopped doing it that but there was definitely a a spell of where they’d stop a a sequence of

Play and draw a square on the bit where they know like the header or the shot comes from and go you need to really defend this space here it’s like yeah but you’re watching that now because you know you know where they scored from it Hing Cliffs a little bit like

That it’s like yeah now I can now I can look at it again should have put it to the other bit why didn’t you put it in that top corner so he just had nothing are we taking out on Andy hinch Cliff yeah yeah one of those days is it yeah

Absolutely um very positive there Michael who are you asks HH I don’t know very positive I said there were loads more drop points I didn’t mean just for us to be clear I mean across the the whole top four will drop many many points in these next couple of weeks as

I say like we we were looking at it and we were breaking it down that if we’d won every game between Christmas and the end of the season you would have been talking about a a record-breaking sequence of results in the English game by a Distance by some distance so that’s

It’s not just on the balance of probability is going to happen you can’t be good every game can you you can’t be effective you’re going to come up against different styles like we did today which um I say you know contrast that with what we came up against versus

Swansea who would just let us play whereas hfield were determined to not let us play and you know it worked for him didn’t it’s a fa play we should give a shout out to ampadu’s reaction to the red card where he just basically laugh in Hog’s face yeah yeah and then went go

On off don’t feel like I’ve really got much to discuss about today’s games what about you it’s CU nothing happened yeah the ball was never in play that was the point I was making about that in the second half having no notes it was just that repeated pattern of we’ll keep

Having chances and keep trying to break through your your um your deep defense there’s only so much you can talk about of Huddersfield having two throwings that take him three minutes to collectively get take and it’s like George you did a Steve Morrison shot didn’t he he did wasn’t I was that the

One that went for a throw in yeah it was one of those where you’re looking at it going that deflected it was definitely not Steve Morrison footwork yeah exactly he’s such a bizarre footballer but and then I did enjoy their player going on a dribble and just falling over like a

Drun man falling on to his face just like yeah it’s like the um you the clips of when you see like fat drunk men having a race on holiday or whatever one of them just completely Falls has not running about 20 years and just falls on

His face it’s one of those where you know you’re stumbling for five yards going I’m gonna have to fall over eventually started prolonging the inevitable then um was it Grove nearly did the exact same bit thing like few minutes later as well he started stumbling I suggested they might

Cobbled that section or something man of the match do you even want to bother picking one h no I don’t anyone I don’t think anyone plays no one no one gets it no is no I don’t think anyone played very well no you’d say they’d say several people were fine and basically

Did their jobs but then like the defense was not troubled apart from on set pieces but that is part definitely part of their job um so fot mob have given it to no one oh strange they’ve given it to hel the subu came on and scored right

For them with 7.8 out of 10 which goes to show you the sort of quality of the game all our players like so they they compile their Match ratings by stats don’t they it’s an algorithm that compiles it all our players are actually Milling about um seven between seven and

Eight or between 7even and 7.5 there because they all completed their passes nonto 6.6 Kamar 6.8 um everybody else was just just fine most of their plays were sort of five sixish couple got over sevens but uh he’s frustrating his nonto and he he’s in one of these moods is he

When things when things start not going for him he very quickly turns to just moaning and giving stupid fouls away he like frustration can get the better of him quite early which was Da because it was their players that were all getting bucked it was a crowd that was getting

Wound up it’s like just leave them to lose their heads why why are you sort of joining in I mean how many times in that game Rob did we say don’t foul him don’t foul him don’t foul him because you’d have one of their players the one player

That was up front um running into a corner like you’re just willing us not to do a stupid thing but we didn’t do it too much but we did sometimes it was a bit in the second half where we were saying just don’t put a foot in don’t

Put foot in and they eventually just passed the ball back to the keeper who booted it to us and it was like just leave them to it CU they’re rubbish yeah well but they had no intent of getting forward did they it was there was one where it looked like they were

Counterattacking but it ended up basically with one person running down the left and the one man sured by four leads players and I think that was one where we fouled him and it’s like what are we doing just just hold him up and wait for something to happen because

They’re not going to do anything with it so it’s hard to suppose is it because you don’t encounter that very often you’re kind of used to engaging players aren’t you if if you see them with the ball it’s it’s almost a different skill to go look if we just

Wait here we’ll get it back soon enough anyway talking about Southampton and finished Birmingham I beating them already two minutes done that might two minutes that’s going to blowing for full time now that’s going to end at least 40 n get the get the ball in the get the ball

In the corner and hold it there that goal differ is going to take a hell of a hit isn’t it they lose 45 now so what’s uh fun is that we will know the result of that by the time this comes out in the free feed so um yeah

Are you happy with that as a result uh yes or not yes or not yes or not one of the two I’m going to feel stupid if Southampton win 44-1 go on then hit me with with some of your uh your searing analysis then I don’t know really what to to say about

That no let’s just hope we’ve got it out of our system that was the one we need a l yeah it was going to happen eventually I mean weow 15 shots there were only two on targets that kind of tells the story yeah yeah it’ be interesting to see what

Um what farker makes of it he’s not his comments are not um dribbling through just yet also let’s never give Glen Kamar a chance in front of goal again yeah that’s a point we haven’t talk about that what what was he thinking or not there I mean he actually does well

Once he doesn’t shoot initially to find sumerville with the pass and then somville should score he’s got he’s got no Killer Instinct has he no he’s he’s very Adam for sure you go back to that interview he did with the Y where he’s like oh don’t worry I’m trying to get my

First goal just give me time like come on mate like match I think that combined with him leaving that pass shot as well B pass yeah made made for a bad half she did very well to baile him out of that he did didn’t because he was left

One-onone there was a moment where I thought there was no one there then actually kind of appeared in the picture like okay we’ve got a chance here he’s going to he’s going to maybe do a job Arie been taken off as well what you make of that right decision because

There was a kind of a thought that we had about maybe pushing him into Midfield take him out or off because he’d not had the greatest game yeah he’s played a lot hasn’t he great in the last last week and he did do a few pretty like rubbish passes in the second half

So you could see where he’s going from he’s only a boy and Roberts again comes on changes the game with his uh superb assist Tash is a really good Tash it is a good Tash um but yeah but yeah another nice cross from him so thinkink scar today which is

Disappointing word Pirro came on and did nothing again but I there’s a point where I felt that there was an argument for putting PIR one because he’s he is good at coming and dropping deep and linking play up whereas is he though well when we yeah I’m going to say yeah

I’m not sure he is well when well when we we face this when we face like these banked defenses he is quite useful at dropping out of the the forward line and just coming to pick it up and then doing those little interchanges of passes I thought he might be useful in that

Regard maybe he wasn’t I don’t know I think per would be best used basically never passing to him and just letting him get on the end of a chance if it a number 10 or number nine but yeah when I don’t know I don’t really know what he’s

Meant to be doing a lot of the time it seems kind of stuck between two positions sometimes but then by that point because we’ taken Kamar and gray off it like just grew over in Midfield so I guess he did have to keep dropping

Deep but I don’t know yeah I just know I know he didn’t have a huge amount of time and it’s difficult to get into games particularly when there’s no space and you you essentially you’ve been sent on to play 30 yards from goal with 10

People stood in front of you um but I don’t know it’s been it feels like it’s been quite a while since he did anything and i’ rather he did something Swansea beating Blackburn don’t care milw beating what don’t care Birmingham beating Southampton do care is it what’s

It 3-0 now no it’s just still the one they are six minutes in accord to fo but it’s running a couple of minutes behind so it’s probably all changed right um by now but yeah I’d like Birmingham to get something out of that game that’d be fun

Wouldn’t it it would but you know let’s not talk about it too much because it’s going to be instantly out of days long way long way to go what happens there happens exactly happens there six games to go in it that’s when we need to look at the table absolutely no need to

Panic yet we trust him do we do we trust him yeah no I think we should sack him after that get someone who get a promotion specialist in yes um changes for uh for Tuesday I think James comes in probably mind Conor Robert’s getting his start as well

For maybe push Archie into Midfield yeah take Kamar out potentially I mean another thing as well with today is that when players like Rutter and maybe GR looked a little bit off it I don’t think they barely trained all week have they like somville as well as he had a knock

So maybe there’s a little bit of fatigue in there I don’t know but yeah I’d like um James I think to start and Conor Roberts and we’ve not really seen Byron for a while OB because he’s gone a bit some Byron but I won’t mind giving

Junior a rest at life backck let’s put it that way why um just to let him ReDiscover his his Spirit yeah we’ve kind of gone on we don’t want to exhaust him the the peak haven’t we first half didn’t he came on the right he on the

Right wing didn’t he Spirit isn’t he Junior why why do you do this he’s a fun character isn’t he not in a character character way h no although at times I may have called him that yes um well I’ll tell you what should we wrap it up

And um we will get together with Phil and we’ll find out what we said in the press conference and we’ll have a little little pa over that but I I don’t think we’re going to face any surprises in the press or are we like in terms of what

What far makes of that frustrating afternoon so on and so forth I think he he’ll very mildly criticize us and then say but it don’t matter yeah you could see him having a word with a ref at the end and even then he was like okay cool

Give him a thumbs up what what would that sound like well don’t know you don’t want to do it too not the mood too sad today Michael noron aren you a little bit it’s a bit frustrating is it yeah one last check in on the scores

Then before we uh we head off I’m glad you’re not letting it no I’m I’m just I’m just a relaxed weekend for the rest of the weekend I can see in the comments um there should be two down apparently right how how people watching that I

Don’t oh 3 o00 kickoff is it yeah must be he probably at the game right yeah be at the game one of our live texted actually do you know what um you know we’ve obviously we’ve got spies everywhere um one of our spies um who are they playing Birmingham so one of my

Spies in the West Midlands sent me a message sat and had breakfast next to Russell Martin and his coaching staff at a restaurant at a breakfast restaurant in Birmingham can you guess what he was in eating what’s up Martin yeah um yogurt and fruit what’ you think Rob I’ll go

Poached eggs and avocado no he had a cruffin a what a cruffin it’s a a quason right blended with a muffin similar sort of hybrid um continental breakfast item never heard of it yeah I had a cruffin before no let’s it’s a it’s a bit flaky and crumbly a bit like oh yeah

South yeah Southampton we’ve obviously gone on to loose from here so uh so there you go said it was always it was always written from from breakfast this morning so thank you to our spy in the West Midlands for where get cins from uh the old cfin shop like a seabird the the

Cruffin man yeah so uh yeah cruffins for breakfast all around all right cool what you have for breakfast ah I don’t eat breakfast get that well we’ve killed enough time now the comments are com in far’s reaction is disappointing in the way that we have to accept we’re not there with the 10th

Win in a row it’s uh it’s Pretty Ambition does he mean ambitious uh and to speak about a disappointing day shows our ambition I think filled on a typo there um we missed in the first 10 minutes a massive chance it must be one nil fresh out yeah it does change the

Entire tone of the game doesn’t it if we get that early goal I suppose and we would have definitely 100% run away with that yeah yeah maybe facts maybe so it’s great that we’re criticizing Huddersfield for wasting time on this podcast right the breakfast chat I’ll

Just just check if the ball’s pumped up enough I’m I’m going to take it from the other side Michael’s just doing his laces the laces oh trigger trigger it’s triggered oh why did they ref why did you not have to go off the pit to tell your laces um it it was a

Scruffy first half Huddersfield played with a knife between their teeth that’s not allowed is it um pretty dangerous I think there were little tactical fouls many yellow cards it was stop and go some mentioned the ball was never in play in the first half it was difficult to create chances

I think he’s talking about you there because you mentioned I was it you Rob I mentioned it a lot both of us throughout the game yeah yeah knife between the Teeth Let’s wrap it up there then and go away and think about tomorrow’s breakfast shall we uh yeah what are you

Going to have ah a bag sandwich a big bag sandwich bye the match ball St