Afternoon Leeds-in for 31 October: Roofe: We need to improve set piece defending

Call this a dispatch from the “water is wet” department.

Kemar Roofe said that Leeds need to improve set piece defending. Really. You don’t say.

Kemar Roofe said:

It might be time where we need to just do something with it. But hopefully we just get a bit better at it. We don’t want to be conceding goals full stop and we have been conceding a bit too many from set-pieces.

It seems like it’s a recurring thing so it is something we need to work on. But that’s what we are going to do this week I suppose, we are going to work on our weaknesses and hopefully we can do that and show that against Wigan.

Perhaps the team can hire a set-piece specialist that will teach them how to defend them this year.

On to the links.

Leeds United Links

A look at Ibai Gomez, the Deportivo Alavés winger who is linked with Leeds. [Through It All Together]

Portsmouth’s Ronan Curtis is also linked with Leeds, along with about half the Championship. [Through It All Together]

England and English Football Links

Marco Silva applauded Everton’s away support. Leeds would have taken more. [Royal Blue Mersey]

After Arsenal have had some high-profile movie tie-ins that are, um, questionable, our friends at The Short Fuse have some better ideas. [The Short Fuse]

Sunderland are reportedly looking into changing their badge. For their sake, may they fare better than Leeds did last January. [Roker Report]

AFC Bournemouth beat Norwich City in the League Cup. [BBC.com]

World Football Links

Club Tijuana and manager Diego Cocca have parted ways. [FMF State of Mind]

Real Madrid’s interim manager played football in university in South Jersey. [Brotherly Game]

FIFA is looking at expanding the 2022 World Cup instead of waiting until 2026. [BBC.com]