Leeds United’s Marcelo Bielsa made a ‘massive shout’ on Saturday, says Tyler Roberts.
Tyler Roberts has admitted to LUTV that Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa took a big gamble during Saturday’s brilliant 3-2 win over Millwall at Elland Road.
Leeds finished the day second in the Championship with a dramatic win over the Londoners, with Sheffield United also losing 3-2 at home to Bristol City.
But it looked for a while like Bielsa’s side might lose the game, as the Whites trailed 2-1 midway through the second half.
The Argentine tactician withdrew centre-back Pontus Jansson – who had been booked – and replaced him with winger Jack Clarke on 67 minutes.
This sparked a number of positional changes in the Leeds team, with Kalvin Phillips going into central defence and Pablo Hernandez moving into midfield to accommodate Clarke on the wing.
It proved a stroke of genius by Bielsa, with Hernandez scoring the winner on 83 minutes after dazzling from midfield, but Roberts, a £4 million signing by the West Yorkshire club [Daily Mail], admits that it was a ‘massive shout’ by the 63-year-old coach at the time.
He told LUTV: “Yeah he [Jansson] is a massive player and obviously a massive threat at set pieces. Like you said it was a massive shout from the gaffer but obviously it’s paid off.”
Leeds have a two-point cushion in the automatic promotion places with seven Championship games to go.
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