Marcelo Bielsa insisted that Leeds United had enough chances to beat Newcastle have been now not medical sufficient as they suffered defeat.
The Whites had a flurry of possibilities in an end-to-cease first half at Elland Road in Saturday’s Premier League clash. However, they couldn't discover the opener before the Magpies grew into the contest.
Nevertheless, it regarded as if Leeds would break the impasse as Newcastle struggled to hold up with their opponents’ intensity. Indeed, Eddie Howe needed to use all his substitutions to cover for injuries.
But remarkably, it turned into Newcastle who opened the scoring with a Jonjo Shelvey free-kick after seventy five minutes.
Leeds piled on the strain inside the very last levels of the healthy however could not locate an equaliser. Speaking in his publish-healthy press convention, Bielsa discovered how he attempted to get Raphinha – who starred for the duration of – into the game greater.
“We usually were given to the very last 0.33 simply, we may want to pick the final skip, whether or not it's from out huge or thru the centre, however within the closing of the game we had been lacking clarity,” the supervisor stated.
“We lost the capability to head on the outdoor. I changed Raphinha and [Jack] Harrison’s facets. I noticed all the play turned into happening the left and Raphinha is our most unbalancing player.
“Apart from there on, the alternative happened. From there on, the ball began going down the right where Raphinha changed into initially.
“That prevented us from getting in the back of on each sides. Until that moment, we had it down the proper. With fewer balls to be had, we had it down the left due to the fact Harrison was making contributions.”
Raphinha and Harrison proved a danger at some stage in and Leeds ended up with four pictures on the right track from thirteen tries.
