Can anyone explain to me why Edouard plays mostly left and Wilf centre when Benteke isn't playing, he never played left for Celtic

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Now the dust has settled a little I feel I can post a more measured response.

Leeds weren’t great, and didn’t create a lot. But they do have a couple of great players, and to be fair to them they worked really hard and pressed us well.

Anderson is a HUGE miss. JT can defend, but he cant really pass. Wen he did play it on the ground the passes weren’t snappy or ahead of the players (He put Marc in trouble a couple of times), so we saw him going long quite a lot. This completely changes the game we play, and so we struggled to build and hold position, hence why the game was so open and scrappy. Leeds helped make this happen by always pushing onto MG leaving JT free to receive the pass from keeper. They would then press him and he’d sh1t himself.

Ayew deserves a lot of credit, played a lot of smart football and was important in helping us transition our play. Olise would have struggled if in from the start I think.

Midfield was ok, and good to see Hughes get on. But because Tompkins was going long so often, they never really got the ball to feet in the areas they would have liked.

Despite the misses Benteke was more effective than OE (though he needs to play as a CF). Gave us an outlet and more of a goal threat, but he’s got to be scoring that header.

The pen was unfortunate, headed into his arm at point blank range. Maybe he shouldn’t have had his arm there, but these things happen.

Another disappointing result, but given that we are a few important players down we gave it a good go. You cant fault the effort. Lets hope that Anderson is back in time for the weekend, and maybe Hughes can come into the team and now do a job.

For me the most glaring issue we have is that our CB’s are vital to playing the way we want to play. And we only have 2 in our squad that can do what we need them to do. We wither need to get some better back up, or learn how to play if we lose either/both to injury.

Thought Kouyate, Mitchell and Ayew were excellent - agree with the comment that Ayew just seems completely shot of confidence once he reaches the box, but he ran absolute rings round their left back in the first half. Be some player if he had more of an end product.

I don't think many left backs will do a better job of locking up Raphinha this year - Mitchell seems to be growing by the game and I'd imagine Southgate was very happy with what he saw yesterday.

Everyone else was ok, I don't think there was many poor performers - Schlupp wasn't massively impactful, but I don't think he was particularly bad - stuck his foot in, couple of nice runs with the ball, and had one of our better efforts with the shot from outside the box. He's one of the more reliable finishers in our squad, which is probably quite worrying.

Just want rid of Benteke at this point - too frustrating.

Hopefully we see a lot more of Riedewald, Hughes and Rak Sakyi this season. Surprised why Riedewald has not featured yet. He is a decent player. Also shows the importance of Mcarthur when he is injured people know how important he is to the side.

At least we gave them a game this time. Last season we were pathetic at Elland Rd. One of our best away performances was at the Emirates where interestingly we were without Wilf with Edouard playing wide with Tekkers in the middle, he also scored a cracking goal. Anybody fancy going Wilfless again?

Its almost as if he wants Eduoard to fail, keep playing him out of position

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn