That is an interesting point about dictating games.
The team appear to be far more confident playing counter attacking football, even at home.
Against Leeds we started the game with ideal circumstances for the way we appear to like to play; Leeds with their natural inclination to attack leaving us to hit them on the counter.
Leeds then go a player down; Bielsa starts the second half by taking off a defender and replacing him with a more forward minded player.
The natural way to counter that would be to stick another player in a more forward role, making them bring another player back into a defensive position.
No, we carried on as before which effectively minimised the fact that they had a player less.
Not until we went a goal down did we throw caution to the wind and go for it.
I am not so sure that the reluctance to be more expansive comes from the manager either; he made a remark about the players having the confidence to move on from here, after the game on Tuesday, not for the first time this season.
Maybe the players, certainly some of them, do not have the confidence in their own ability to express themselves more freely.
