Football League 2023/24 - 26th December 2023

[Dave]

Leeds and Millwall the early kick offs.

The big 1st vs 2nd match is at 7.45.

 

Orient vs Charlton has kicked off early.

 

Mansfield vs Grimsby has kicked off early along with Gillingham vs Crawley.

[Dave]

Liam Millar scored an excellent winner for Preston against Leeds.

[Lucas]

That's the beauty of Leeds United. Always keeping you grounded and never allowing you to get too carried away.

Complete toss away from home again. These away performances are bordering on unacceptable with the quality we have. Seem to be so flat and lack the same intensity.

Farke shouldn't be given any easy ride just because of our home form. He needs to start finding a solution. I get most teams set up to defend against us but if you can't find an answer with the players we have, you deserve criticism.

[Dave]

Swansea looked utterly terrible on Soccer Saturday. Southampton didn't need to get out of second gear.

Take nothing away from Southampton though. Sixteen games unbeaten, eleven wins, they're well in the promotion hunt.

[Michael]

Leicester City are leading away to 2nd in the table Ipswich Town. A win here this evening for Leicester City will propel them 9 points at the top of the table, ahead of 2nd place Ipswich Town. It was Mavdidi's goal in the 1st half that gave them the lead. Leicester City are playing very well away against a very strong Ipswich Town side.

Ipswich Town 0-1 Leicester City

[Dave]

Massive goal at the end there. The goalie had no chance after the deflection.

[Dan+]

They get some luck don't they Ipswich.

On the balance of play, probably a fair result but it wrangles when they've gotten away with a decision like that at 0-1 as well. I don't think it'll matter in the long run as I expect us to see this through quite comfortably but a bit annoying nontheless.

We've got to stamp out this habit of conceding late. To think until November we'd barely conceded a goal in the second half of a game, now we've conceded decisive late goal in four away games out of five. This is now a habit.

Really do think Southampton are being slept on in this now. I have to hand it to Martin - very good turnaround and while their squad probably should be 3rd at worst, they are up against two sides who've been in extraordinary form. One bad run has stopped them matching us both.

[Bluebird Hewitt]

15 hours ago, Dan said:

They get some luck don't they Ipswich.

On the balance of play, probably a fair result but it wrangles when they've gotten away with a decision like that at 0-1 as well. I don't think it'll matter in the long run as I expect us to see this through quite comfortably but a bit annoying nontheless.

We've got to stamp out this habit of conceding late. To think until November we'd barely conceded a goal in the second half of a game, now we've conceded decisive late goal in four away games out of five. This is now a habit.

Really do think Southampton are being slept on in this now. I have to hand it to Martin - very good turnaround and while their squad probably should be 3rd at worst, they are up against two sides who've been in extraordinary form. One bad run has stopped them matching us both.

Don't worry. You'll twat us on Friday with ease.

[Dan+]

3 hours ago, Bluebird Hewitt said:

Don't worry. You'll twat us on Friday with ease.

Futbol eritage tells me it's a 2-1 defeat courtesy of Chopra and Bothroyd. In reality yes I think we win it fairly comfortably.

[Stan]

Just noticed the first picture in the OP @The Palace Fan. Think that was last season  

[Dave]

2 hours ago, Stan said:

Just noticed the first picture in the OP @The Palace Fan. Think that was last season  

You have no idea how many websites I went on to find a picture I could screenshot after the first game had started. It would have been quicker to manually type them.