Manager banking on his £66m investment in wide players to give Leeds a statement victory over Jürgen Klopp’s side
Imagine a procession of supermodels sashaying down a catwalk. One has been described as “capturing the essence of Leeds United” and is instantly identifiable. The artfully messed-up hair and the barely there makeup scream “natural beauty” but, having taken ages to perfect, seem strangely emblematic of Marcelo Bielsa’s apparently spontaneous yet supremely well-rehearsed team.
When Leeds kick off against Liverpool at Elland Road on Sunday afternoon and Bielsa’s players begin inter-changing positions with bewitching, sometimes bewildering, kaleidoscopic rapidity it will be easy to assume they are passing and moving “off the cuff”.
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