Even Cowley enjoys a Bielsa beating

It would be a crying shame if leeds were not to go on from here and win promotion to the Premier league. Not because they have a divine right to be there after 16 years away, although some leeds supporters will tell you different, but because it would be cruel to deny Marcelo Bielsa the chance to showcase his managerial expertise in the world’s most popular league. watching his team at Elland Road should be on the bucket list of every football fan. ‘It’s an education, a lesson in brilliance and the highest calibre of coaching,’ said Huddersfield manager danny Cowley after his side were beaten 2-0. ‘In a sadistic way, and I’m not sure I should say this, I quite enjoyed that.’ while it was a typical poacher’s finish from Patrick Bamford that secured three points and put leeds top of the Championship, it was luke Ayling’s opener that had just about everybody in the ground wide-eyed and looking at each other to confirm what they had just witnessed. Everyone, that is, except Bielsa who sat calmly as Ayling (right), a right back, sprinted from deep to be in position on the right of the Huddersfield box to meet Jack Harrison’s cross in mid-air and volley in off the crossbar. It was a textbook Bielsa play: the full back moving forward unannounced and unmarked to take advantage of unoccupied space to score. A clip posted by leeds on social media showed the move had been drilled to the nth degree. of course it had, all of what leeds do is planned but the difference between this year and last — and Bielsa said it himself — is that they are now more efficient and at this level nobody else comes close.