Eg syns virkelig Daniel Chapman treffer planken igjen i oppsummeringen av denne kampen
https://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/wolves-1-0-leeds-united-modelling/It would also be wrong to conclude that Wolves are somehow a much better team than Leeds based on their two 1-0 wins this season. They’re effective at holding onto leads, that’s for sure, although not ‘good’, which implies morality. I’m saying they’re a bunch of time-wasting bastards when they go ahead, in case that’s not clear. But when we compare this season’s matches to the 4-1 and 3-0 turnovers Wolves did unto Leeds in the Championship, we get the bigger story.
After the second of those games, at Elland Road in March 2018, Andrea Radrizzani got headlines for tweeting that the Championship was not “a fair competition” with Wolves in it, because it was “not legal and fair” for them to be owned by a conglomerate that also had shares in Jorge Mendes’ player agency. It was the start of a love-hate relationship with ‘The Wolves Model’, as for a while Radrizzani seemed to think if he couldn’t beat it, he could emulate it. That was dropped in favour of the Brighton Model, the City Group Ownership Model, lately the Leicester Model; he’s got more models than Kraftwerk, and the 49ers are on board for that reason, because Radrizzani wants to emulate their commercial model.
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Radrizzani got here without selling Leeds’ soul, although it was close. In the two games with Wolves in 2017/18 United fielded Luke Ayling, Liam Cooper, Ezgjan Alioski, Gaetano Berardi, Pablo Hernandez, Kalvin Phillips, Stuart Dallas and Adam Forshaw. After the 3-0 defeat at Elland Road in March, Radrizzani was fuming not just about the opposition but the lack of payback from a squad that had been given improved contracts and training camps in Spain. Manager Paul Heckingbottom lamented that Leeds didn’t have, “That winning, run through a brick wall mentality,” he had enjoyed from his players at Barnsley. “It’s easier to buy in,” he said. “Growing and developing, it takes a long time, because to a certain extent you are what you are. But with buying in, we can create an environment that can shape things.”
Heckingbottom wasn’t entirely wrong; Leeds have benefited greatly from buying-in Raphinha, for example. But it’s United’s long term blessing that Radrizzani listened to Heckingbottom’s ideas and concluded that the environment he needed to buy-in was Marcelo Bielsa’s.
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Andrea Radrizzani looked happy with his life in the Instagram video captured at Camp Nou in midweek, showing off Raphinha reels on his phone, contemplating a Barcelona versus Leeds fixture in European competition without that feeling like an incredible impossibility. He can look forward because Leeds are no longer looking at Wolves. The teams are so evenly matched that, even after losing to them twice and perhaps finishing below them in the table, Leeds can say they’re ahead of their own plans now. The target of staying in the Premier League is all but met; the next aim is to be as good as Wolves and qualify for Europe in the next few seasons. Leeds are as good as Wolves now, so…? In football, as discussed, results don’t always follow as naturally as they should. But in the grand scheme of their aspirations, Leeds are gradually squeezing out luck’s ability to hinder their progress. ◉