Stuart Dallas eyes Leeds United reaction from Manchester United learning curve as Whites prepare for Burnley

Northern Ireland international Dallas gave a no nonsense assessment of his side’s 6-2 defeat to the Red Devils, admitting that his side never recovered from trailing 2-0 after just three minutes.

Dallas conceded that positives were few and far between but the 29-year-old said his side could use the experience to attempt to right the wrongs ahead of Sunday’s return to action at home to fifth-bottom Burnley.

With 14 games played, newly-promoted Leeds now sit 14th in the Premier League table with the Whites seven points clear of the dropzone.

“We’ve got to bounce back,” said Dallas, speaking to LUTV after the Old Trafford setback.

“We’ve got to learn from this because I don’t think there were too many positives we can take from it.

“There’s certainly plenty that we can learn from.

“I suppose the only positive that we can take is that we tried to keep going right to the very end and tried to keep playing football the way we know we can play.

“We kept running and trying our best and the way we play we are going to be open to conceding some goals but there’s plenty we can learn from.”

Whites head coach Bielsa said before Sunday’s contest that Leeds would stick to their attacking principles and would not simply sit back in their own half to stem the pacy counter attack threat of the Red Devils.

“That’s the way we play,” said Dallas.

“To stifle it we have probably got to stop them getting it to the front men as quickly as we can and maybe we didn’t do that.

“It was a difficult afternoon for us.”

Reflecting on Leeds conceding twice in the very early exchanges, Dallas admitted: “It’s difficult to manage these situations.

“They scored two goals very early on and it knocked the wind out of us.

“It’s always difficult to recover when you give goals away at this level.

“It’s very difficult and we found that throughout the game.”

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