{"id":399941,"date":"2025-09-05T12:17:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399941\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:17:32","slug":"nedum-onuoha-provides-off-the-cuff-advice-for-leeds-united-to-survive-relegation-using-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399941\/","title":{"rendered":"Nedum Onuoha\u00a0provides \u2018off the cuff\u2019 advice for Leeds United\u00a0to\u00a0survive relegation\u00a0using \u2018advantage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United have been handed advice from BBC pundit Nedum Onuoha on their Premier League survival bid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a new-look Leeds United team of 10 fresh faces, and Farke has talked up tactical flexibility in the Premier League improving<\/a> as well this season, albeit that has not been showcased in every single fixture thus far<\/p>\n

It means Leeds are taller, more physically powerful, and with a number of combative players throughout their side. Given the size and power in the team, it\u2019s fair to say that the\u00a049ers appear to have done their Premier League research<\/a>\u00a0on what it takes to survive.\u00a0\u2018<\/p>\n

Even if some final pieces of the puzzle were missed out on, set-pieces will be vital to Leeds<\/a> after players such as Anton Stach have made Leeds significantly taller<\/a>. That will be a crucial aspect for survival this term, with seven of the new players being 6\u20192\u2033 or more.<\/p>\n

Nedum Onuoha explains how Leeds can improve set-pieces<\/p>\n

With all that being said regarding height and increased physicality, James Lawrence Allcott asked BBC pundit Nedum Onuoha about Leeds\u2019 chances and how the height of the team has improved.<\/p>\n

He asked Onuoha: \u201c[They are] missing like a forward or El Khannouss like that kind of missing forward?\u201d<\/p>\n

Onuoha responded: \u201cBut then you also need forwards that going to fit in with how the team wants to play. And they\u2019re going to have to make teams uncomfortable if they\u2019re going to be staying up. And I think for now the players that they have are probably going to suit that. <\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah, some of it might have to do with say, trying to defend the what quote unquote \u2018modern day set-pieces\u2019, because if, you know, it\u2019s from corners recently? Inswinging is so in vogue. getting as many as you can into that six-yard box.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, if you\u2019re going to be playing against the likes of like Arsenal and so on, you\u2019ve got to be able to physically back yourself, yeah. And I think some of that comes with recent years with probably City, Arsenal and so on where they can outplay you, but it\u2019s physical as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think that maybe has changed things a little bit. So yeah, the influx I get it and I think, for Farke, he\u2019s in a good position in some ways because he\u2019s getting a chance to do it again with his past experiences in his mind \u2014 knowing that this is the way it has to be. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut, unfortunately, there was all that noise at the end of last season about he was going to get sacked as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cBut it depends how you\u2019re going to use it to your advantage because not every game is like, you know, just played in the air and being super physical. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll have the set-piece and so on and you could have your issues in terms of deciding who\u2019s going to mark who. But something that really stuck with me was in the years when I was at QPR, we were playing Brentford.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrentford were one of the best teams on set-pieces and nobody was tall. They were best at set-pieces in defence and attack and nobody was tall. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo you\u2019d go, you\u2019d be walking onto the pitch, you\u2019d be shaking hands, everybody\u2019s short apart from like one or two guys like John Egan, maybe one more was tall. And you just couldn\u2019t score from set-pieces against them. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd considering it\u2019s the Championship where everyone is a flipping tree. I was like, how is this a thing? And then when they\u2019d have their set-pieces \u2014 it was always creative. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what I mean? Something always off the cuff. So what does the height advantage get you? Well, if it\u2019s a proper footballing game, probably nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"HuddersfieldPhoto by James Gill \u2013 Danehouse\/Getty ImagesJames Lawrence Allcott and Nedum Onuoha talk up Leeds and Sunderland\u2019s home atmospheres<\/p>\n

Another way to be a tough team capable of survival is to have Elland Road become a fortress. That aspect could also be a huge attacking differential in the relegation battle.<\/p>\n

Alcott added: \u201cHome form is going to be crucial. I think that that first win against Everton\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Onuoha: \u201cAbsolutely, I thought they deserved it as well, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you could feel like those old those old stadiums there\u2019s a different sound and I think it can still have a bit of a\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the same as like Sunderland from when they\u2019ve come back up. A lot of people forgot that their stadium is one of the top 10 biggest in the country. So like Sunderland\u2019s capacity I think it\u2019s like 48,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, because they\u2019ve not been in the Premier League, it\u2019s easy to forget their status or whatever. Then you go then you see them go there and the ball goes in you see a lot of people jumping you hear a lot of noise. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell of course because there are more people there than at most stadiums around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United have been handed advice from BBC pundit Nedum Onuoha on their Premier League survival bid. It\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,83988,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-399941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-nedum-onuoha","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115151651002350677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}