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The trials and tribulations of supporting Leeds United

Leeds United 0 Chelsea 0: A Rare Draw

Bamford makes his 100th appearance for the club. Koch makes his return to the squad by being on the bench. Finally we may play the first team we wanted to at the start of the season. Cooper has been dropped from Defence in preference for the pace of the returning Struijk – Bielsa clearly has a lot of confidence in him as a growing player. Having Roberts and Harrison starting together is yet another combination Bielsa is trying and that will be a lot of pace if they can link up effectively with Bamford and Raphinha.

West Ham 2 Leeds United 0: Blown away by Bubbles

Bielsa
It was much more like the Leeds that fight in the second half with West Ham reduced to the occasional counter attack. It is just a joy to watch Raphinha on the ball, clever swivels and caresses of the ball combined with a taunting attitude to defenders to come and get the ball if they dare.

Leeds United 0 Aston Villa 1: Parked a Bus

Raphinha Leeds United
Bielsa did his pep talk again at half time about upping the energy and getting the ball out of our own half – we simply dominated the second half with Villa reduced to long balls to El Ghazi who hoofed them from a distance to nowhere in particular.

Leeds United 3 Southampton FC 0: pitch imperfect

Bamford
Leeds went into this match with Southampton on the back of two defeats. I felt a win was needed to stave off any sense of Leeds going into decline mid way through the season. Southampton had pulled of an excellent draw with Chelsea but have been without a win for a few games now so both teams had a point to prove – three in fact.

Wolves 1 Leeds United 0: Grandma

Leeds headed into the Wolves match on the back of a difficult defeat against Arsenal where we found ourselves 3-0 at half but after a talking to by Bielsa, came out with more energy in the second half to pull…