Bielsa’s side were fun to watch and wildly entertaining but the champions were far more dominant than 4-3 scoreline suggests
On his first day in his new prison, Marcelo Bielsa walked into the yard and, following the time-honoured precedent, approached the biggest fellow. convict he could find, and smashed him in the mouth. He may have lost the fight that ensued, but he landed sufficient blows for the wider point to be made. El Loco hasn’t changed. There will be no tempering of the approach – not that anybody should ever have thought there would be. Leeds are dangerous and demand respect.
Or at least that was how it felt during Liverpool’s breathless 4-3 win at Anfield on Saturday. The spectacle, the assault on the sense, the feeling of things happening, constantly, everywhere, was overwhelming. The former Boca Juniors centre-back Juan Simón once described the experience of. playing against a Bielsa side as like being run over by a tractor; so, frankly, is watching them, particularly against another team as determined to press and attack as Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool.
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