Marcelo Bielsa Leeds
LEEDS United boss Marcelo Bielsa offered no excuses for his side’s 1-0 loss at Saints, admitting: “The defeat was fair.” Saints produced a dominant display at St Mary’s, with Armando Broja’s goal enough to take all three points. The win lifts Ralph Hasenhuttl’s men above Leeds in the Premier League table, with both sides having registered just one win from their opening eight matches. Reflecting on the match,
Marcelo Bielsa said: “The defeat was fair. It was justified in the first half, even if they scored in the second. We didn’t play well, evidently. It was difficult for us to prevent them playing out and being fluid. It was difficult for us to recover the ball in the middle of the pitch and we didn’t prevent them from gaining possession to become promising attacks. Evidently our game didn’t look like the one which we usually play. Perhaps we were not as powerful as the opponent, but I don’t have the impression that we didn’t run to try and convert the difference. Especially if you see the second half, it’s not that we played well, but in the first half we were overcome and in the second half we could not overcome them, so it was different from what happened in the first half. But the differences in the first half, I thought they were more marked out than in the second.”
