Aston Villa boss Smith big fan of Bielsa and Leeds

Aston Villa’s boss, Dean Smith, has said he’s a fan of Marcelo Bielsa and his Leeds United team.

Smith has addressed the challenge of Leeds, gushing in superlatives for the Yorkshiremen.

He said, “They’re a team that I love to watch play. They’ve come into the Premier League and lit it up, in terms of how they’ve played.

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“I have an awful lot of respect for the work that Marcelo Bielsa has done. I’m not sure another manager could have gone into a club like Leeds and made the impact that he’s had on them,” Smith said, at odds with many assumptions made by Premier League pundits and opposing fans that Leeds’ style is unsustainable, and embarrassing in the event of a heavy defeat.”

It was confirmed with the win over Southampton earlier this week that Leeds had outran each of the 19 opposing Premier League teams this season – a mammoth achievement.

“I look at the players’ physical outputs and they’re doing things now that they weren’t doing before. That’s a credit to Marcelo Bielsa and his tactics.

“I think there are an awful lot of similarities between the two teams. We got to the Premier League a year earlier than Leeds and we had our struggles last season,” Smith divulged, before going into the particulars.”