Sod Chelsea, let's talk about Leeds.
, Leeds United played Chelsea at Elland Road. Leeds were already starting to feel the effects of the fasting required after the high spending years under Peter Ridsdale, having narrowly failed to qualify for the Champions League at the end of the season, when in truth they needed ongoing qualification to be able to afford the debt they’d already accrued.
For Leeds, those intervening years brought administration and third tier football before the arrival of Marcelo Bielsa and an eventual return to the Premier League. More or less the only common factor between the two clubs at over this time came when Ken Bates pitched up at Elland Road as the club’s owner. It didn’t end so well.
One of the contradictions of Leeds’ return to the Premier League has been that their ‘Big’ matches haven’t been quite as tense as they might have liked. Their four games against Manchester United, for example, have seen them concede 15 goals, and that included a clean sheet. Whisper it, but they’ve started this season fairly well, coming from behind to beat Wolves at Molineux on the opening weekend, and while they may have left Southampton last weekend a little disappointed with a point after having helf a 2-0 lead, it did leave them in sixth place in the table, just above Chelsea on goals scored, even if league tables at this time of the season have chocolate teapot levels of usefulness.
Chelsea played like a pack of lions in pursuit of prey against Spurs, but without Mateo Kovavic and N’Golo Kante in their central midfield they were transformed in a less positive way. Kante had been back his absolute best, playing with an intelligence and bite that made it feel as though there were two of him on the pitch, and that both of them were seeing everything that happened out there five seconds before anyone else.
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