Leeds United - v - Aston Villa ***Matchday Thread***

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Klix

If you actually do go to games and you couldn’t appreciate the brand of football Bielsa tried to play and see the obvious the squad was painfully thin so it could never cope with losses to key players then not sure what to say.

The idea that an inexperienced manager who got sacked from his last job after 17 games could take the same squad and work miracles was fanciful.

The game last night was truly dreadful. The new system looks too simplistic and didn’t work last night. Everything is about getting to the penalty spot asap - if they pack the midfield the other team wins the ball and counters.

In his post match interview JM looked lost and broken already and sounded like a marketing manual.

He is playing people out of position - Koch, Ayling for example. Not heard ER that toxic for a long time.

The board forgot that Bielsa can take players and make then perform above the level they normally would - now Bielsa has left they regress to the natural level and the lack of investment in better players comes into sharper focus.

Good luck with your new poster boy Jesse but he looks as incapable as some of Orta’s more questionable signings.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Some other things - the post match huddle seems to have been dropped already.

The board should have learnt of Plan A is right but not working implement it harder - they truly learnt nothing from Bielsa.

Oh I forgot - it will be fine in the post match interview JM said the players just have to believe - believe what that are the 1989 AC Milan team.