Leeds United have now shipped 11 goals in their last two home home matches, with little sign that they’ve improved since Marcelo Bielsa was sacked.
The easiest way of finding out how Leeds have played in their latest fixture is to look at the trending topics on Twitter to see if Marcelo Bielsa’s name is amongst them.
Whenever Leeds lose, Bielsa’s name starts to raise its head again, a reminder of considerably better times than much of the last couple of years. This is understandable. It may all have ended badly, but at least Bielsa gave Leeds United an identity, something that has often felt missing since he left.
The anger felt by so many supporters when Bielsa was removed from his position might have been somewhat ameliorated had his successors been more successful, but this has pointedly not been the case. Jesse Marsch was able to keep the club in the Premier League by the skin of their teeth, but this season has seen little substantial improvement, and with the season reaching its closing stages and Marsch already gone, they are now locked into a relegation battle that they don’t seem particularly well-equipped to fight.
By just about any standards you care to consider, this has been a disastrous week for Leeds United. In the space of just eight days they’ve shipped 11 goals in two matches, all the worse because both of those games were at Elland Road. Against Crystal Palace, they started reasonably well, created a couple of chances and led thanks to a goal from Patrick Bamford. But an equaliser in first-half stoppage-time from Marc Guehi seemed to knock the stuffing out of them, and Palace ended up running out comfortable 5-1 winners.
Against Liverpool, things only got even worse. For the second game in a row, Leeds held their own until their didn’t anymore, and while there might have been an element of misfortune about the first Liverpool goal on account of what looked like a handball against Trent Alexander-Arnold which gave possession of the ball to the visitors in the first place, that didn’t excuse the collapse that followed.
Leeds were two goals down by half-time, and even pulling one back a couple of minutes into the second half didn’t seem to breathe that much life back into them and Liverpool ended up scoring six against a backline which collapsed like a house of cards in a hurricane.
Javi Gracia looked shell-shocked in his post-match interviews, and who could blame him? Leeds had won their last game before the Palace…
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