Danny Mills comments on Marcelo Bielsa decision against Aston Villa

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Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United drew with Aston Villa at Elland Road on Sunday.

Danny Mills said on The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show on talkSPORT on Monday morning (8:09am, April 29, 2019) that Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa was very clever against Aston Villa at the weekend.

The Championship game between Leeds and Villa at Elland Road in the Championship on Sunday afternoon ended in a 1-1 draw.

Poland international midfielder Mateusz Klich scored for the West Yorkshire outfit under controversial circumstances on 72 minutes.

Tyler Roberts kept the ball in play despite appearing to be ready to put it out for a throw-in following an injury to Jonathan Kodjia, and then released Klich to score.

Subsequently, there were confrontations between the two sets of players, and Villa’s Anwar El Ghazi was sent off.

Leeds allowed Dean Smith’s to score from kickoff under the instructions of head coach Bielsa, with Albert Adomah tucking the ball in.

Former Leeds right-back Mills has given his take on Bielsa’s decision to let Villa score an uncontested goal in the Championship game on Sunday afternoon.

Mills said about Bielsa’s decision on The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show on talkSPORT on Monday morning (8:09am, April 29, 2019): “I think he has been very, very clever. Had that had mattered and if they had needed three points to get back into the top two and promotion, I don’t think it would have happened, however bad it was. I don’t think it would have happened.

“He has probably looked at it and thought, ‘Well, Sheffield United have won the day before, so we are not going to catch them. We could well face Villa in the playoffs, and if we face Villa in the playoffs at some point, do we really want this bad feeling? Do we want this bad karma?’”