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Congrats to Bielsa for winning the Fair Play award.
He is one everyone loves to love.
But sometimes, he is honest to a fault.
Every week, Bielsa gives the other teams a head start announcing the same team.
He sees little of it but every little thing counts in competitive environment.
And things gets easier with Bielsa as he operates on a single blueprint.
It's same personnel, same style week in week out with almost no undercut and element of surprise.
Teams knows exactly where the fruit is going to drop for them.
And his loyalty to his players is unshakable even when they under perform.
This cause tensions in the dressing room and rile players who are clearly at the top of their game but not getting a chance.
Long season still ahead but if last season run in is incorporated to current form, its looks like relegation.

And Bielsa seems contended with entertaining games than winning games.
 
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It is hard to knock him as he is so well respected and knowleagable.
And he knows that most games we start with a better team and style of play than the opposition.
But we all know that the idea of football is to put the ball in the net more times than the opposition. There just has to be something he can do to improve our conversion ratio.
It is hard to watch games that you dominate and then draw or get beat.
 
It’s got be starting to effect the players, we are playing teams of the park and still not winning ,does it come back to previous transfer windows,if we had Gayle or the likes I don’t think we’d be having this view .
 
Probably not Lasogga, however Chris Wood could easily have been top goal scorer last season and this. Bielsa has massive faith in Bambi and it's impossible to contemplate that the lack of goals will continue. Announcing the team in advance to my mind is pretty irrelevant, each manager knows that our format will be 4-1-4-1, so the guys who fill the spot shouldn't really matter to them, however even knowing that in advance, 99% of teams still cannot live with us and our tempo.

Maybe this is our lean spell early doors and not at the end of the season!.
 
SimonTVW said:
It is hard to knock him as he is so well respected and knowleagable.
And he knows that most games we start with a better team and style of play than the opposition.
But we all know that the idea of football is to put the ball in the net more times than the opposition. There just has to be something he can do to improve our conversion ratio.
It is hard to watch games that you dominate and then draw or get beat.
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Bielsa may be a revered coach, but he is just as mystified on how to put the chances at the back of the net. Worryingly, he is still stumped for an answer since last season to come up with something.
 
Its not just the finishing thats Leeds Achilles heel. Leeds were weak supplying and defending from the wing. Bielsa had tried various permutation here with Alioski, Harrison, Douglas without much success.
Leeds inability to defend and attack set pieces is going to be their own undoing.
And with a goalkeeper who can't catch but can somehow "tit" the ball so accurately to opponents to score, it not hard to see why Leeds are dropping points.
If only he can do it with the same degree of accuracy for Leeds at the other end.
 
Then Bielsa must have created a self delusional mentality within Leeds thinking that they can beat others just by turning up.
A team just took all three points with less than 30% pocession, with Derby et al doing similar, and there are claims that 99% of other teams cannot live with Leeds tempo?
 
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The fact is most teams can’t handle our tempo when we’re at full speed, they sit back and hopefully try and hang in ,we just need to hit the net !!!
 
Oyper said:
The fact is most teams can’t handle our tempo when we’re at full speed, they sit back and hopefully try and hang in ,we just need to hit the net !!!
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Agree Oyper.
Seems to me that the teams who can't live with us are not trying to do much clever in response. They just do what they can knowing that we are vilnerable from set pieces and they may get the odd chance in open play. .
It's a no lose for them really. They would expect to lose to us anyway but by hanging in there the chance of a point or three is a bonus for them. Just like when the lower Prem teams play Man City,
We all know we can score so let's just hope this is a blip and it all comes good.
 
In your words, their response are not clever
But importantly, they plundered Leeds and left with the booty.
 
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We play with a high tempo until the final third then look like rabbits in the headlights. We have wingers that can't take a player on or deliver a cross.
 
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