Gary Neville lauds Leeds United and Marcelo Bielsa following Liverpool performance

Gary Neville believes Leeds United with "scare the living daylights out of teams" in the Premier League this season following their opening day performance.

The Whites played out a stunning 4-3 with Liverpool last weekend as the curtain raised for both sides on the new top flight campaign behind closed doors.

United battled at Anfield but were eventually beaten as Mo Salah converted from the spot - his third goal of the game - with two minutes remaining of normal time on Merseyside.

Marcelo Bielsa's outfit fought back three times to level with Jurgen Klopp's men as Jack Harrison, Patrick Bamford and Mateusz Klich all struck.

Leeds - despite the late defeat - earned plaudits for their battling performance as Bielsa made a losing start to the new term.

Neville, though, believes United showed enough to convince him that they will make a lot of teams uncomfortable in the Premier League throughout the year.

"I think they’ll do really well. I think they’ll scare the living daylights out of teams," Neville told Sky Sports.

"I think they’ll take some teams, as they did with Liverpool’s defenders, to a really uncomfortable place.

"I don’t think that group of players could’ve been managed by anyone else and gained that outcome like they did on Saturday where they took Liverpool to the point of conceding three goals, Van Dijk was unnerved, Alexander-Arnold was unnerved - these are some of the best defenders in the world.

"I have to say, I thought it was a thing of beauty to watch, I really did. Exceptional games, I think Leeds fans are going to get this season, particularly when they get back in the ground

"The atmosphere will be absolutely electric. For me, I think it’s the fact that they made Liverpool feel so uncomfortable. No doubt they are going to concede goals at the other end of the pitch.

He added: "I’d imagine it’s thrilling every day as a Leeds player to go into that training ground and work under that man, to play the game in that way, to have that fearless approach whereby you basically are told to go after your man, win the ball back, duels one v one, throwback as Jamie said before.

"I’ve not got one negative thing to say.

"Liverpool haven’t been beaten at home in 60 matches, and those defenders would’ve come off that pitch on Saturday, and thought, ‘What the hell was that?’, they won’t have a clue what just happened.

"There’s no shape to that game. There’s nothing you would ordinarily recognise in a game of football. It was brilliant."