Leeds United managed to surrender a three-goal lead on Saturday.
Leeds United fans on Twitter are blaming Marcelo Bielsa’s substitutions for Saturday’s capitulation against Cardiff City at Elland Road.
Bielsa’s side were 3-0 ahead with half-an-hour to play but the Welsh outfit somehow left West Yorkshire with a point.
The Leeds boss took two-goal Patrick Bamford off for Eddie Nketiah on 77 minutes, when the Whites were winning 3-1, and then swapped veteran defender Gaetano Berardi for 20-year-old Pascal Struijk on his second-ever Championship appearance just before City – who had 10 men – equalised.
And United fans are confident that Bielsa inadvertently cost his side the victory.
Here’s how they reacted to his substitutions.
Bielsa’s rationale with Bamford was that the 25-year-old hitman was beginning to tire and he felt that Eddie Nketiah would’ve injected new energy into Leeds’ attack.
And Struijk is a 6’3 centre-back, with Bielsa wanting someone to match the physicality of Cardiff striker Robert Glatzel – who stands at 6’4 – but it didn’t quite work out for the veteran coach.
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