Stan Collymore takes thinly-veiled swipe at Marcelo Bielsa after Leeds loss v Crawley
Stan Collymore has taken a bit of a swipe at Marcelo Bielsa after Leeds United were knocked out of the FA Cup on Sunday.
League Two club Crawley stunned the Premier League side with a 3-0 win as Bielsa’s squad looked well and truly off their game.
It was arguably one of the worst matches of Bielsa’s reign in charge of the Whites with the manager himself getting personnel and tactical decisions wrong while many of his senior players failed to perform.
Biesla has been idolised by a lot of neutral supporters away from Elland Road in his management career and Collymore is now suggesting that there should be similar treatment for Crawley boss John Yems.
Writing via his personal Twitter account on Sunday, Collymore said: “6th in League Two. 34 year old Strictly, DJ and Towie reality TV star plays. A no gimmicks, straight 4-4-2 system.
“Looking forward to a few hipster journalists giving us a 1000 words on the genius of John Yems.”
Bielsa must take flack for awful FA Cup exit
Leeds’ defeat to Crawley will go down as one of the biggest shocks of this season’s FA Cup, as well as in recent years.
Not many would have given the League Two team a chance when Bielsa named ex-Real Madrid goalkeeper Kiko Casilla, England international Kalvin Phillips and Spain number nine Rodrigo in his starting line-up. But none of them stepped up. None of them showed anywhere near as much as they should have done.
Leeds also featured a lot of young players with Ian Poveda, Oliver Casey, Leif Davis, Sam Greenwood and Jack Jenkins all getting game-time.
Poveda looked decent, at least in the first half while Pablo Hernandez also showed that he’s still a classy operator in the midfield.
But there were just too many players who didn’t seem like they cared.
Was there a sense of complacency? Or are these young players not as good as we thought?
Aston Villa’s youngsters stepped up and only lost 4-1 to Liverpool’s first-team this FA Cup game week so there are no excuses for Leeds’ youngsters.
Thet – and Bielsa – will have learned a hard lesson this weekend.
In other Leeds United news, fans have destroyed this one senior player in the loss at Crawley.