Manchester City 7-0 Leeds United - recap: Marcelo Bielsa reaction to Etihad hammering
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The Whites make the short trip to take on Pep Guardiola' s reigning English champions on Tuesday night (8pm).
City sit top of the pile heading into the festive period with a one point advantage over Liverpool after 16 games following Saturday's victory over Wolves on home soil.
Leeds, meanwhile, are 15th in the standings following a late defeat at third-placed Chelsea in the capital.
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Key Events
- Leeds United travel to City on Tuesday night
- Whites sit 15th, City are top of the Premier League
- Kick-off a the Etihad is at 8pm
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- RESULT - Manchester City 7-0 Leeds United
Post-match reaction
The Leeds fans have been absolutely sensational tonight. Still singing and applauding the team who are heading over to show their appreciation. Rough old night against a world class team.
Loads of players give their shits to the away end. Bielsa standing staring from the dugout.
Bielsa reaction
Bielsa standing out on the touchline as his players all come back in. Just staring ahead, waiting for the last of them to come off.
Marcelo Bielsa post-match reaction
Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa to BT Sport: “There is nothing positive to take away from our performance.
“I can’t find anything that can be valued. When there’s nothing that’s well done, it’s not individualities that fail, but the conduction and organisation. There’s no justification I can offer. The game was exactly how we thought it would be. We prepared ourselves to avoid everything that happened. We didn’t manage to get anything.
“It [their usual style] is what we tried the whole game. Surely if we’d done the opposite, we would be lamented for not attempting anything to take away possession from the opponent.
“What we attempted generated danger in our own goal. We didn’t do anything well. That was evident in the scoreline.
“I insist everything that happened was what we wanted to avoid. As there’s nothing to take from it, it’s inevitable I have to take responsibility for a defeat of this type.
“We’ve never had a performance like the one today.”
Bielsa - worst performance in my time at Leeds
“I reiterate that this is the worst performance in my four years. In no moment of the game were we able to balance the game. The sensation that we gave off that anything they attempted, we couldn’t prevent it.”
More Bielsa reaction
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Did he think it would be so difficult? “No way. I didn’t think the differences would be the ones we saw.
“They didn’t surprise me. What I’m saying is that we didn’t do anything well, we didn’t defend well, we didn’t mange the ball, there is nothing to take away from the game.
“When a team, the individual and collective have nothing worth valuing it is not the problem of the individuals but the conduction.
“Coming into this game we knew what we had to prevent the opponent from doing. Nothing unexpected happened, nothing surprising.
“We came to do what we expected and we weren’t able to do it.
“This is clearly a problem with the conduction.”
When asked if it was the most disappointing performance Leeds have produced in the Premier League, Bielsa said? “Yes, of course.”
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