When Leeds travelled to Outdated Trafford on Sunday night it was alleged to be a recreation that was filled with crunching tackles and intense soccer.
It is a rivalry like none different, one between the white rose of Yorkshire and the pink rose of Lancashire.
On this event, it was the pink rose who got here out on prime in what was one of many greatest thrashings we’ve seen within the Premier League this season. When it comes to a contest, it was all one-sided.
Scott McTominay set the tone with two targets within the first three minutes of the match and from that second, United didn’t look again, ultimately successful 6-2 courtesy of some really abysmal defending from Leeds.
They allowed 26 pictures on their objective, eight of which French stopper Illan Meslier was known as into motion for. Nonetheless, he might do little or no for the overwhelming majority of the targets.
With out Diego Llorente or Robin Koch, we noticed Luke Ayling fill in at centre-half once more and their defensive woes have now grown bigger after Liam Cooper got here off with an damage.
What didn’t assist both was the efficiency of left-back Gjanni Alioski.
Is Alioski adequate for the Premier League?
Completely not
Undoubtedly
The defender was in good kind towards Newcastle as he discovered the again of the web however he left loads to be desired at Outdated Trafford final weekend.
Actually, he was fairly abysmal and his incompetent efficiency may have left Marcelo Bielsa fuming. Alioski’s defensive attributes have by no means been first-class and he was given a horrendous afternoon by Dan James.
Alioski did not win a single deal with and misplaced a large 67% of his duels, prevailing in simply two of the six he contested all through the conflict.
Clearly, the left facet of Leeds was an enormous weak point as a result of Jack Harrison additionally misplaced possession a mammoth 24 instances.
The North Macedonia worldwide wasn’t nice in that side both, conceding the ball on 14 events and being dribbled previous twice by the lightning-quick James.
Sadly, Alioski was additionally abject going ahead, failing with each of the crosses he tried to ship in direction of the Pink Devils’ penalty space.
Total this was an evening to neglect for the 28-year-old and he’ll have to enhance rapidly given the variety of health issues in Leeds’ backline.
AND in different information, woeful Leeds ace who misplaced possession 36x can even have Bielsa raging…