Think that is well said Costy its very easy to just forget those that weren't our favourites but they have still played our part.Costy wrote:We definitely should not forget or under appreciate the part Costa played in getting us to where we are now. He scored a handful of important goals and created a few as well, and was part of a good team that we all loved watching. It's true that he seems not to be quite up to the standard we need now, but every Leeds fan should be thanking him and wishing him well (like they are on here) instead of just giving him idiotic abuse on Twitter. The people who do that are losers in my view.
One game that sticks out for me where he should have got a lot more credit than he did was the Man City 10 man victory (of course Dallas deserved the POM). Its often forgotten for both of our goals that day that Costa was the outlet from defence for both goals.
He held it up on the wing before prodding it to Bamford who played in Dallas for the first.
Similar with the 2nd he collected it from our backs before picking a pass to Alioski who then put Dallas through. Neither classed as an assist (the most overrated statistic in my view) but equally important.
That day when Coops was red carded like most i thought he would be sacrificed and we would rely on Bamford keeping the entire City back line occupied.
MB in my opinion played a master stroke in leaving two pacy wingers on, taking off Bamford and concentrating on a defence with the others.
One wide right, one wide left gave us two outlets and maintained a threat, of each coming to the middle when the other wing received the ball and anyone else who could support.
In fact if Raphina had spotted Costa making a great run through the middle in the attack he was taken out and passed the ball earlier Costa would have been through on goal prior to the Dallas winner. Of course Raphina also wouldn't have missed the next games with injury either.
Not first choice anymore but thanks for been part at the start of great time here.
Featured in 43 of our promotion season matches and contributed 3 goals in only 14 appearances at Prem level.