Marcelo Bielsa Leeds
Marcelo Bielsa insists that his Leeds United side should have come away with all three points despite only snatching a point from Wolverhampton Wanderers deep into injury time at Elland Road.
Marcelo Bielsa said: “Apart from the initial minutes in both halves, we controlled the game and we created not too dangerous and not too many but a sufficient amount of chances to be able to win the game. I think as the game wore on our insistence started to fatigue or waste their defence. And as the second half advanced, we started to generate presences with (Stuart) Dallas and (Dan) James and (Jamie) Shackleton, (Crysencio) Summerville and Gelhardt and Rodrigo. We could worry the opponent. As such I thought that result was insufficient as I thought we could have scored more than one goal.”
In typically colourful fashion, Bielsa credited the home crowd with a role in the team’s performance, relating it to a football chant in Chile, where he was the national team manager for four years.
Marcelo Bielsa said: “I received something that was written to me from Chile and it reminded me of a song the fans in that country sing that says when a team is not playing well, the more you have to shout because that makes them win. And today in the moment when the team most needed it, the public had a decisive presence so that message that I received from a country that I love a lot like Chile, the game today it evolved that message.”
Wolves looked set to inflict a fifth defeat in nine Premier League games on the hosts after Hwang Hee-chan scored the opening goal just ten minutes into the contest. Bruno Lage’s men more or less abandoned the style of play that has won them plaudits in the early months of the campaign and surrendered possession to Leeds, who held the ball 64 percent of the time it was in play. Following the final whistle Leeds boss Bielsa praised the character of his team, saying that his charges wore Wolves down with their play and should have won the game with the chances they created.
