Leeds V Carlisle Head to Head

lil eva · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: Leeds V Carlisle Head to Head

Leeds must win the play-offs, if this first ever sojourn into the third tier of English league football is to be a one-season stay. The one-time footballing giants were relegated from the Premier League in 2003-04.

Carlisle have their sights set on a return to the second tier for the first time since 1985-86. They last played in the top-flight in 1975.

The Table

Leeds finished the regular season in fifth place with 76 points, six points outside the top two automatic promotion spotes. Had they been given back the 15 points deduction at the start of the season, the Elland Road club would have been runners-up, one point behind champions Swansea.

Carlisle ended in fourth with 80 points, two points outside the top two.

Leeds won four more matches and scored eight more goals than Carlisle.

LEEDS UNITED
Current form

Lost one of the last 10 games, and kept clean sheets in six of nine.

Won six of seven, including the last three.

Undefeated in four at home.

Play-Off history

Participated in the first ever play-offs in 1987, when Billy Bremner's side eventually lost to Charlton in a replay of the two-legged final, which means the Addicks maintained their top-flight status. There was disappointment again in the season before last, after Kevin Blackwell's team defeated Preston in the Championship semi-final, and then surprisingly lost 0-3 to Watford, at the Millennium Stadium.

The Manager

This is the first time Gary McAllister has taken a side into the Football League play-offs.

Play-Off fact

The team finishing fifth in the third tier has gone on to reach the play-off final in seven of the last 19 years, and of those just four have won it (Huddersfield in 1995, Stoke in 2002, Sheffield Wednesday in 2005 and Barnsley in 2006)

CARLISLE UNITED
Current form

Not won in five; picked up two points from a last possible 15.

The 2-1 home win over Yeovil on 5 April is their only victory in the last eight. The first of those eight games was also the last of a 12-match unbeaten sequence of nine wins and three draws.

Were holding a top-two automatic promotion spot, with two games remaining.

Play-Off history

This is only their second taste of the play-offs. Wycombe blocked the path of Mick Wadsworth's team in the semi-finals of the Third Division play-offs in 1994.

The Manager

John Ward took over in charge of the Cumbrians on 2 October and they will be the fourth club he has managed in the Football League play-offs. Ward has experienced differing fortunes. His Bristol City side lost to Brentford in the semi-finals of the Second Division competition in 1997. Two years earlier, Ward took Bristol Rovers to Wembley for the Second Division final, where they lost to Huddersfield. But his best result came in the season before last, when Cheltenham were promoted to the third tier, winning the League Two play-off final 1-0 over Grimsby at the Millennium Stadium.

Play-Off fact

The club finishing fourth in the third tier in the regular season has qualified for the play-off final in 13 of the last 19 years, but only three of those have gone on to win promotion (West Brom in 1993, Walsall in 2001 and Brighton in 2004).

HEAD to HEAD
Both this season's league meetings were home wins; Carlisle prevailed 3-1 at Brunton Park on 3 November when their third from Marc Bridge-Wilkinson was scored in the 90th minute, and Leeds won 3-2 at Elland Road, with a brace from Dougie Freedman.

The Cumbrians have only beaten Leeds twice in their 13 league and cup meetings.

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will_lufc · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject:

it will be cool were gonna beat them no probs

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Josie-lufc · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:23 am Post subject:

I wished I could feel that confident

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casdeb · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 41 Offline

im confident for leeds2-0carlise and im buzzing i have not managed to listen to them on the radio for two week i have not been to a game since before xmas and its a big game and as i just said i thinking a 2-0 leeds win im ready bring it on carlisle

chimp · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject:

yeah 2-0 leeds , fup em, fup carlisle, and fup the football league

wewantourdarbyback · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject:

Kandol was utter sh*te from the moment he came on, shot every time he got the ball, never picked a pass missed loads of header and fell over in the box a couple of times when there was no one anywhere near him.

I also have a missing persons report out for on Jonathon Howson who disappeared in the second half, want to know why Macca thought that taking Prutts off was a good idea? and want to know why he still thought that Johno at right back was the best option?

Seb should have come on far earlier for Howson who was abismal even before he went missing.

FFS

but we have some hope for the second leg

hopefully Macca will see that Johno cant play at left back
Seb must play
Prutts isnt a left midfielder
Freeds and Kandol doesnt work
Kandol doesnt work

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Josie-lufc · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject:

lol but apart from that we were great

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chimp · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject:

Their keeper was the difference between us scoring two more.

That said - Carlisle made far fewer mistakes.

The substitutions were poor.

Douglas, Howson, Kandol - all poor. Johnson out of position.

Still plenty of life in this one.

will_lufc · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:17 am Post subject:

i cant believe none of you have mentioned richardson hes bollox at the best of times

we were poor tonight second to the ball all night,didnt get any luck really all night and the ref gave us nowt

our defence looks very dodgey at the best of times think they will be a mass clear out

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lil eva · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:58 am Post subject:

I don't think that one of the Leeds team can hold their head up and honestly say they did their best.
Yes Richardson was crap,as were some others.Lets hope that this was a wake up call and they do the biz on Thursday.

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chimp · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject:

Don't know whats gone wrong with richardson - losing a stone or two wouldn't be a bad thing

will_lufc · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject:

to be fair tho hes been quite shit most of the season

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