Leeds boss Bielsa on Spurs thumping: I tried to go defensive - were you at the game?!

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26 Feb 2022 • 11:00 PM MYT
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Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa had no complaints after Tottenham's 4-0 rout at Elland Road today.

Bielsa insists he tried to play with a more defensive line-up on the day.

He later said: "I think the result is fair. We could have reduced the differences but we were never able to dominate the game.

"Even if we created goalscoring chances we never had a feeling of dominance over the opponent.

"There are conclusions that the reality invites you to make. But there is also another way of looking at things.

"Were you at the game? To put a more difficult team out to beat fundamentally you have to use certain players on the pitch that are more defensive. That is what we tried to do in the first half but it didn't give us the results I was looking for.

"In the two ways we faced the game, with a more conservative profile in the first half and a more daring profile in the second - neither of the two ways gave a result."


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