Leeds United 1 West Ham 2: Reaction and recap after Michail Antonio bags last-minute Hammers winner
The Whites stormed to a ninth-placed finish as a newly-promoted side last term but currently sit fourth-bottom having amassed just three points via three draws from their first five games.
West Ham recorded the double over Leeds last season en route to a sixth-placed finish and David Moyes' side sit eighth after five games of the new campaign.
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FULL TIME - Leeds United 1 West Ham 2
Key Events
- 3pm kick-off at Elland Road.
- Fourth bottom against eighth. Leeds still seeking first win
Marcelo Bielsa reaction
how cruel and unfair?
”They are two teams with different realities.
I don’t think that we deserved to lose.
But I imagine that the opponents’ manager thinks that they deserved to win.
When a team finds themselves in a good moment, they obtain these rewards and when a team accumulates negative results you don’t find a lot of things that they deserve.”
What happened second half?”
“Our project of play was the same.
”When you conserve a result you stop doing some things that are necessary to avoid losing what you have obtained.
”They are responses which are sometimes natural, trying to hold on to what you have got.
”We spend too much time defending and not enough time in the opponents’ half and defend too close to the goalkeeper, it is likely that the opponents chances to score increase.”
On Forshaw
“He has a tear in the posterior part of his thigh.” “With a muscular injury they usually consume a month’s time.
“Forshaw makes enormous efforts not to injure himself but after two years out it is difficult to get back into the swing of things.”
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