Good Morning. It's Monday 28th December, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road...


Leeds scrap to victory as injury toll mounts

Marcelo Bielsa patched up a makeshift back three of Luke Ayling, Kalvin Phillips and Pascal Struijk for the visit of the Clarets at Elland Road yesterday lunchtime. The reason became abundantly clear when the Argentine revealed his squad, only to find that Diego Llorente was missing. It turns out a day into first team training, the Spanish International suffered a setback which will sideline the 27 year old at least until the end of this year. According to Bielsa in his post match press conference "He had a setback on Wednesday and from there he hasn't evolved" . I wish he'd evolve into a fit centre back!

When you put square pegs into round holes, there are repercussions. For all his efforts, Dallas was unable to have anything like the impact that Ayling's normally enjoys down the flank. Also, Klich's performance was woeful. Was this because with Phillips sitting further back in the defence, missing from his anchor role, Klich had more ground to cover on his own?



Let's have a look at some of the contentious moments of the game!


Leeds penalty

Ayling delivered a peach not think that is a stonewall penalty? of a ball from the left hand side of the half way line for Bamford to run on to, slicing the Claret's defence open! Pope tries to spread himself, and Bamford is tripped by Pope's outspread leg. Does anyone (apart from Dyche) not think that is a stonewall penalty? The Burnley Manager believes the referee should have taken his time over the decision, and by doing so involved VAR. Agree?


Mee collides with Meslier. Equaliser chalked off.

How many times will the referee side with the goal keeper over the challenging player, 9/10? Surely, that's all that happened? Do you think Leeds were lucky to have the goal chalked off?

Call me bias, but when you look at both teams on paper, the Leeds team looks far superior! Why was it then, that Burnley were all over us in the second half, leaving us clinging onto the victory by our finger nails. They changed their tactics, and cut off the supply route to Raphinha. Apart from Hernandes' surging run resulting in a fine save by Pope, Leeds were constantly on the back foot. Was it more luck than judgement that Burnley did not draw level? For all of Bielsa's qualities, would you say tactics and substitutions were his particular forte?





Post Match analysis


Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa



Clarets Manager Sean Dyche