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da roleta： Leeds United returned to the top of the Championship on Tuesday evening after beating Reading 1-0.
The Whites have come a long way since appointing Marcelo Bielsa the summer after finishing 13th in the league, but how has the Argentine made the Whites so successful?
Kalvin Phillips is more than qualified to explain how Bielsa has transformed Leeds, and he spoke about how the Argentine’s training regimes have helped the team progress.
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What’s been said then?
Phillips was speaking in a video package produced by Sky that aired before their match against Reading (Sky Sports, 26/11 7:30pm).
“On a Wednesday we do the toughest session I’ve ever done in my life.” Phillips said.
“We do a thing called ‘murderball’, well we call it murderball, he just calls it football.
“It’s where we play blocks of five minutes of just constant 100 miles per hour football where if the ball goes out we’ve got staff on the side ready to throw one back in.
“It’s carnage to be fair, but it’s good, I don’t think many teams train at our intensity, so that’s why we’re doing so well.”
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Great attitude
What an incredible attitude to have.
Phillips isn’t coy about these ‘murderball’ sessions being the hardest thing he’s ever had to do, but he goes on to say that it’s good and he attributes the team’s success down to the intensity of their training.
Certain players would bemoan a manager for making them work so hard, but it seems as if the midfielder has completely bought into what Bielsa is trying to do at Elland Road, and that is absolutely fantastic to see.
Of course, there are pros and cons to these intense sessions, and the ‘Bielsa burnout’ theory exists for a reason, but the 23-year-old doesn’t seem to be questioning his manager’s tactics one bit.
If one of their most important players is buying into this, it certainly bodes well for the rest of the side.
In other news, Leeds fans have been drooling over one academy player.