Are Leeds United too easily bullied? Neil Redfearn says they simply have to deal with it.
Speaking to TV Yorkshire, Neil Redfearn has warned Leeds United that their flair players will be roughed-up more often after losing at Millwall on Saturday.
Leeds suffered their first defeat of the season by losing 1-0 away to the Lions in London last weekend.
Neil Harris’s side adopted a physical approach and it proved successful, with Preston – one of two teams to take points off the Whites before their trip to the Den – also taking the rough route in their 0-0 draw at Elland Road back in August.
As a result, it might suggest that Leeds’ achilles heal is a lack of physicality, and Redfearn has warned that opposition teams won’t hesitate to resort to similar tactics if it means stopping Thomas Christiansen’s troops.
Asked about United being targeted, Redfearn said to TV Yorkshire: “Well that’s right and I think what they’ve done is targeted the attackers players Leeds have, particularly Saiz, Alioski and Hernandez. They’re going to get more of that I would’ve thought.
“Millwall got about Leeds and made it difficult for them. Physically they got close, put them under pressure and they’re going to get more and more of this.”
If it’s within the laws of the game then there is little Leeds can do except simply accept it and try find a different way of playing when the opposition does rough them up.
Redfearn is right – it will happen more often now that Millwall and Preston have proven that it works and the onus is on Christiansen to make his side less susceptible to such bullying.
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