Bielsa’s Leeds are bad in winter. Open your curtains: does it look like winter out there? Exactly. Now look at Leeds trying to play football against Brighton. But not for too long. See?
Match Reports
No Romance
Crawley Town 3-0 Leeds United: Shock O’Clock
It’s not healthy for Leeds to feel that the early rounds are inevitable, that lower league clubs are unbeatable.
When the football year begins with a humdrum defeat in line with the form book and the transfer market, it’s a reminder that this is the Premier League in 2021, where attention wanders easily from the pitch to the timeline.
Perfect Sound Forever
West Brom 0-5 Leeds United: Against Nature
Last night’s Premier League results are an embarrassment for the greatest league in the world: three 1-0s and a 0-0. Except the Leeds game. Even accounting for Burnley’s sinkhole opposition, there have been 21 goals in the Peacocks’ four festive matches. And what goals!
It has been a hectic week — month — lifetime enduring the reaction to Leeds United visiting Old Trafford and doing the one thing that ought to have united the world of football: losing.
Not That Football
Manchester United 6-2 Leeds United: This Football
I saw enough of the other kind of football during sixteen years outside the Premier League — not to mention during the Manchester derby last weekend.
Harrison and Alioski were left face-to-face in the changing rooms on Friday night as the team played on without either of them. This was their moment, embracing, forehead to forehead.
In (Set) Pieces
Leeds United 1-2 West Ham United: Not The Last
Uh-huh, so, it’s time for this game again, is it?
Dirty Cash, I Want You
Chelsea 3-1 Leeds United: Treasure
There’s no point trying to take moral or ethical high ground about Chelsea’s expensive squad when our club are desperate to rush headlong down and join them in the foothills.