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Marcelo Bielsa: It was a good performance

Head coach on Luton Town win.

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"\u003Cp\u003ELeeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa spoke to the media following Saturday\u2019s 2-1 victory over Luton Town.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Whites made it three wins in a row, courtesy of a brace from Patrick Bamford at Kenilworth Road.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe win moved Leeds to second in the Sky Bet Championship and Bielsa was pleased to secure the three points.\u003C/p\u003E""\u003Cp\u003ELeeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa spoke to the media following Saturday\u2019s 2-1 victory over Luton Town.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Whites made it three wins in a row, courtesy of a brace from Patrick Bamford at Kenilworth Road.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe win moved Leeds to second in the Sky Bet Championship and Bielsa was pleased to secure the three points.\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CI think the result was fair, it was a good performance from the team,\u201D said Bielsa.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CIn the first half it was a little more easy, but in the second half we fought a little bit more.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CUsually it\u2019s very difficult to win, if you don\u2019t fight, you don\u2019t have a good condition to play and if you want to win you have to fight, if not, you cannot. We fought and we could play as well.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CAfter we got the first goal we had a chance where we could have imposed the second one.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CAfter we scored the second goal we had two clear chances.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CYou have seen the last ball of the match was for them, the number three at the far post and when you have just a goal of difference, deserving to win is not enough.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CBut playing here in this stadium is not easy.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CWhen you have reduced spaces it\u2019s always difficult for the team who attacks and with the pitch smaller, this difficulty increases.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CWhen you play in small spaces, the possibility to score when you build the attack decreases and that means that it allows the team defending can counter attack.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CThis is a team compact in defence, they recover and they counter attack very fast, they play long balls after to recover and in this pitch long balls means going from box to box.\u201D\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBielsa also spoke about the influences of Patrick Bamford who scored both goals and Ben White who provided the assist for the opening goal.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBielsa said: He (Bamford) deserves it.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CToday he had a lot of contact with the opening goal and the fact he has scored twice, that strengthens his confidence.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CIt\u0027s easy to value what White did, it\u0027s obvious.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CIt was a great, brilliant resolution and that is a way to describe how football is going.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CThe attackers defend and the defenders are also involved in the building of the attack.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201CIt\u0027s not normal that one centre-back gives these kind of passes that Ben White did.\u201D\u003C/p\u003E"

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