With Leeds United heading to The New Lawn on Friday evening to open the pre-season friendly portion of our pre-season build-up to the 2018/19 campaign, we did take a 1-0 victory in Marcelo Bielsa’s first time in the dugout but fans were far from happy, or convinced, come the full-time whistle.
With transfers being a serious bugbear at the moment for fans with only two loan signings arriving and reported favoured targets likely to go elsewhere as talks stall over the finances involved, the match itself was a welcome distraction for some.
For others, it just continued to highlight the deficiencies at the club and the problems we had, including those that were highlighted in the season of 2017/19.
One such problem for a number of fans who took to social media to give their thoughts was winger Ezgkan Alioski and it’s fair to say, from the below selection of tweets, that he didn’t impress those watching on.
Alioski offside. Not missed that. #lufc
— Parma (@Parma__D) July 17, 2018
alioski dribbling in to a defender’s legs then fouling him. good to see nothing’s changed.
— Ben (@Beeeennnnnnnnnn) July 17, 2018
has he ever looked sharp in his career
— Ben (@Beeeennnnnnnnnn) July 17, 2018
Does anybody actually rate alioski? #lufc
— Baz Evs (@bazevs) July 17, 2018
Alioski continuing his poor form from the second half of last season into this game… I know it's only a friendly but we need another strong winger to replace him #lufc
— Tom Raynor (@TOMLUFC1995) July 17, 2018
I know it's our first pre season game but Alioski looking poor compared to everyone else
— James (@jtlufc6) July 17, 2018
Need a better Alioski a better winger
— Jason Howard ⚡️ (@JasonHo51447070) July 17, 2018
Alioski doesn't seem bothered
— Harry Chapman (@H_chapman17) July 17, 2018
Dallas did well tonight tbf. But again.. a right footer at Left Back. If I were Radz I’d sell up right now before we go down.
— BK (@TykeMafia) July 17, 2018
I'm not watching. Is allioski still chucking himself about?
— Carl Ascough (@carlascough) July 17, 2018
Is Alioski still nudging the ball for 5 minutes, waiting for opposition to settle down and then giving it away? I was hoping Bielsa would have some 8 second rule or something for him and Roofe.
— SA (@Aravind_SA) July 17, 2018
“Great effort by Alioski” after he takes too long to shoot and gets smothered by keeper.
— Kildaregaa365 (@kildaregaa365) July 17, 2018