Four Leeds players have taken to Instagram to heap praise on Kalvin Phillips following the 1-0 win over Burnley at Elland Road.
The player under the spotlight is Kalvin Phillips, whose latest Instagram upload was met with a number of congratulatory messages.
Liam Cooper, Raphinha, Luke Ayling and Jamie Shackleton were among those to actually write messages to the £30,000-a-week maestro.
Elsewhere, Leif Davis and Pascal Struijk simply sent emojis to the midfielder.
Cooper wrote ‘different class brother 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼’ while Shackleton simply called the England international a ‘machine 💪🏼💙’ after beating the Clarets.
With Phillips starting the match in an unnatural position at centre-back, Ayling said: ‘Big strong centre half 💪🏼💪🏼’
Lastly, Raphinha simply wrote: ‘Kalllllll 😍👌🏽💪🏽🔝❤️’
In truth, it was a fantastic display from the Leeds No.23, who shone away from his natural defensive-midfield role.
As WhoScored shows, the 25-year-old won three aerial duels, made three tackles and completed a huge seven clearances against Burnley.
Phillips coped admirably as the Clarets delivered cross after cross into Illan Meslier’s box, with a number of vital flicked headers crucially taking the ball away from the lurking ex-Leeds man Chris Wood.
The Leeds academy graduate helped his side keep their fifth Premier League clean sheet of the campaign.
For all the talk about how open Leeds are under Marcelo Bielsa, only four sides have recorded more clean sheets than the Yorkshire-based outfit this term.
Chelsea and Southampton have kept six, while Manchester City have kept seven – Aston Villa lead the way with eight shut-outs.
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