4:52 Graeme Souness and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink discuss Leeds’ return to the Premier League after they almost held the current champions, Liverpool, at Anfield.
Sky Sports Graeme Souness:
“For 80 minutes, Leeds were fantastic. But in the last 10, Liverpool pinned them back and it was only a matter of time before someone made a mistake or someone came up with a piece of brilliance. But Leeds have made a real statement tonight.
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“I wonder if they’ve got a big enough squad as they surely can’t play like that every time as it was some effort. Liverpool weren’t at their best because Leeds didn’t allow it. Liverpool normally hunt teams down like Leeds did to them.
“Tonight, Leeds had more possession at Anfield than Liverpool and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before with this Liverpool team.”
Bielsa: We deserved to lose
4:03 Leeds’ Marcelo Bielsa says despite scoring three at Anfield they didn’t create enough especially in the second half.
Despite the plaudits, Leeds boss Bielsa had no complaints with the result even though Liverpool left it late to nick the points when Salah converted from the spot after Leeds’ new signing Rodrigo had fouled Fabinho.
Bielsa told Sky Sports: “It was a just defeat. Liverpool made it hard for us to neutralise them.
“In the second half especially we struggled to get the ball from defence to attack.
“We also stopped Liverpool playing like they usually do and we made a lot of effort. During large parts of the game we were able to match them.
“You can never be happy in defeat. At this level errors equals goals.
“To be able to score three goals is a positive thing, we should have created more danger when we attacked.
“We were very efficient but we didn’t create enough goalscoring opportunities. We also cannot ignore we conceded four goals. A lot of those goals could have been avoided.
“You can’t predict football but there are situations you know are going to happen – just because you know they are going to happen it doesn’t give you the security you can stop them happening.
“But when you concede goals to opportunities you feel could have been avoided it makes the disappointment bigger.”
Sourse: skysports.com
