Danny Mills has in contrast David O’Leary’s Leeds crew to the Marcelo Bielsa period and admitted the crew have been too predictable.
Leeds loved their greatest interval of the Premier League period beneath the administration of O’Leary, who guided the membership to the UEFA Cup semi-finals in 2000, and the Champions League’s final 4 a 12 months later.
Regardless of a wealth of expertise and memorable runs in Europe, Leeds have been unable to win a trophy beneath O’Leary earlier than the membership’s monetary meltdown decimated a gifted squad.
Requested what was lacking to show Leeds into silverware winners, Mills – who made 141 appearances between 1999 and 2003 – stated there was naivety on the pitch.
“If I’m trustworthy I feel we solely had a technique of enjoying, slightly bit like Marcelo Bielsa’s crew for these that may’t keep in mind 20 years again, Mills advised The Soccer Devoted at an occasion hosted by 888sport
“We have been high-tempo, excessive vitality, aggressive. We’d attempt to rating within the first half, the primary 20 minutes of video games and try to steamroller groups that means.
“We have been slightly bit naive. I feel with a extra skilled supervisor and higher teaching, we might have finished higher in opposition to the highest groups. We went out and tried to win each single sport, within the first half of the sport.
“We struggled in opposition to the highest 5 – 6 groups, in and round us, we very not often beat them and didn’t usually decide up attracts. Some would name us flat-track bullies in case you like. We struggled to take factors in opposition to these high groups and that was finally our downfall as a result of we had a technique of enjoying and that was it.
“I examine it to Marcelo Bielsa’s crew as a result of we have been excessive vitality and excessive tempo. We had Plan A. If Plan A didn’t work, we nonetheless solely had Plan A. There wasn’t actually a Plan B.
“We had a improbable squad and improbable gamers, however perhaps a extra skilled supervisor would have gotten us nearer to a title or trophy.”
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