The Leeds from Marcelo bielsa go through an awkward moment in the Premier League. On Friday they lost 2-1 against West Ham United after having taken the lead and only reaped four of the last 18 points, which places it in step 14 of the standings, just six units above the relegation zone. On the threshold of the crossing before Newcastle Next Wednesday, El Loco gave a conference that at times was tense.
There were two sections of the press conference in which the technical director, nominated for The Best award after his title with Leeds in the Championship, was noticed annoying. One, when a journalist asked him if he thought it possible that his cast would end up fighting for permanence.
“It is very difficult to talk about the future and predict it. The reality that we are going through at the moment of obtaining only 4 points out of the last 18 is a negative cycle, which of course generates consequences. This negative cycle, similar to the one we are going through, has been passed by more than half of the League’s participants so far. Every time we play we know that the difficulty is very high. And we try to grow so that scoring is possible for us”, He highlighted.
But at the close of his concept he made it clear that the unknown was not appropriate: “Anyway, to the question you ask me, I answer it because I cannot help answering it and I try to say something that makes some sense. But in football, any circumstance is possible. And we go to place for each date to improve the position in the table, whatever it may be ”.
It was another query that directly elicited a sharp answer from him, something unusual in his lectures. Before the crossing against West Ham, El Loco had informed the alignment that he put on the field of play. Y a chronicler dared to ask him if he had not given the opposing coach an advantage; right to him, obsessive about detail work.
“There is nothing wrong with it. Why It would be wrong if we thought that knowing the opponent’s formation presupposes an important advantage. For me it does not presuppose any important advantage. From now on, to avoid claims, I am not going to give answers related to the players who may or may not play in the matches ”, he surprised with a change in the rules of the game with English journalism.
Precisely in the run-up to that duel, at the press conference, a funny situation had arisen because Bielsa had anticipated the training, a fact that even brought a smile to his translator and assistant, due to the extra work generated by the fact of having to order the names correctly in the initial 11. But that gesture with the press came against DT, who defined a change of attitude.
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