Leeds United fans can expect a lot more to come from the 27-year-old.
Leeds United fans can’t have been blown away by Mateusz Klich’s performance on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old midfielder earned his second start for the Whites following his £1.5 million summer move in Tuesday’s 5-1 League Cup demolition of Newport County.
Given their opposition’s League Two status, United’s first XI was expected to have a field day, and many of them did – including Kemar Roofe, who scored a hat-trick – but the Poalnd international was somewhat sluggish throughout his 90-minute spell.
On the surface, fans of the Yorkshire club could be concerned, given that he failed to impress against a team 51 places below Leeds in the EFL pyramid.
Ridiculously, one fan on Twitter even suggested he could be this season’s version of Matt Grimes, the Swansea City loanee who infamously failed to impress last term.
But supporters shouldn’t worry.
They need only have seen Ronaldo Vieira’s performance alongside Klich in midfield to avoid jumping to such negative, premature conclusions about the Pole. Vieira is a player who Leeds fans know to be a class act, but the consensus is that a lack of match sharpness contributed to an underwhelming display from him this week.
Before Tuesday, Vieira had 119 minutes of first-team football under his belt this season – Klich, who also missed a good chunk of pre-season through injury, had 42 minutes.
The supporters will know there is a whole lot more to come from the 19-year-old, and there is nothing to suggest that the same doesn’t apply to Klich.
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