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Very interesting comparison made by the Fulham manager in his pre game media meeting yesterday before their game with Leeds tonight;-
"It's tough, they're a very good side. A unique side in the way they play and set up. You don't come across it a lot. We experienced it a couple of times last year with Leeds and Cardiff who play similar ways. The intensity with which Leeds play is always one you need to match. We understand fully what Leeds bring, their energy and the intensity of the game. We're looking forward to the game, it's a good game, big game and we're raring to go."
I suppose that we have an intensity about us when we're playing well and we can come at you in waves, but I'm struggling to see a comparison apart from that - especially in terms of the number of players we commit to the opposition penalty area in open play.
Cant see it myself. Without the ball maybe. Certainly not with the ball.
We haven't played football for a long time!
It's getting on my tits now, every time I look at this board (after going away for an hour or so), I keep on reading the title of this thread as :-----------
SPLOTT PARKER
I won't believe it until Mick McCarthy starts sitting on a bucket in the technical area.
several managers/players have compared us to Leeds.
They mean the man to man marking and pressing, rather than playing with the ball.
Fulham played more like Cardiff today.
I'd like to see some links to prove that if you've got them and our man to man marking where you'd have people like Joe Bennett popping up at right back ended when Warnock left - Fulham played us three times last season after that. I don't remember us pressing opponents as much as we've done under Mick McCarthy either , so I'm not sure about Fulham having to worry about that when we played them either - if we were supposed to be man marking and pressing under Neil Harris, we weren't very good at it.
Perhaps fresh in his mind is the last time we played them, the second leg of the play off game, and how close we came to turning them over.