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Everything Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville said about Leeds United on Monday Night Football

Needless to say, Leeds United's performance against Liverpool has gained plenty of attention.

That includes from Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville, who both went into great detail about the highs and lows of the Whites' performance when appearing on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football.

Here is everything that was said about Leeds' display against Liverpool.

Jamie Carragher's analysis

" We could’ve done an hour on this game - and that’s just on Leeds, to be honest.

"A lot has been made of Bielsa, how many tackles they made in the game, getting bodies forward, at one stage they had seven in the box when they almost got a penalty just before half-time.

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"End-to-end game, brilliant to watch and commentate on, but I’ve looked a lot more at Leeds defensively rather than going forward.

"I just want to go back to almost the late 80s, and you think of Arrigo Sacchi, he’s someone that came in and is known as almost changing football with pressing all over the pitch and really with the zonal marking, almost changing the days of man-to-man marking.

"This was almost a throwback, but this wasn’t just in certain areas, at times it was all over the pitch. Man-to-man all over the pitch.

"I don't think anyone enjoys playing against man-to-man marking. Wherever my man goes, I'm going to stop them getting out.

"I think man-to-man marking is a lot easier when the ball's stopped, you can really organise it.

"In free play with people moving around constantly and you've just got your man, I think it's really difficult.

"The one thing that really shocked me was how far Luke Ayling was prepared to go with Sadio Mane. It was Leeds' right-back and Liverpool's left-winger and they stopped Liverpool getting out.

"That shows the extremes Leeds would go to. It works when the ball is stopped.

"The winning goal was where man-to-man cost Leeds, in a way. When the ball went to Joe Gomez, Kalvin Phillips had no interest in trying to stop the ball into the feet of the attacking players.

"He didn't get it wrong, that's the system they play.

"I don't like man-to-man, I was brought up on the other system, there are pros and cons to it.

"If one man beats his man, I think a lot of it falls down. Salah beat his man and yes, it leads to a corner, but it should lead to the winning goal as it was an easy chance for Mane.

"It was a fascinating watch, Bielsa said before the game that they're not going to change but what made me look at it is Jugen Klopp mentioned man-marking two or three times before the game.

"They trained for it and he actually said, when they trained for it, it just felt so alien for both teams, the team doing it and the team up against it.

"It won't be easy to play against it this season but the way around it is if one of your men can get round his man. We know that from training games, as soon as one man's beaten, that's where the system falls down.

"Ultimately that's what won Liverpool the game."

Gary Neville's analysis

"I think they’ll do really well. I think they’ll scare the living daylights out of teams. I think they’ll take some teams, as they did with Liverpool’s defenders, to a really uncomfortable play.

"I don’t think that group of players could’ve been managed by anyone else and gained that outcome like they did on Saturday where they took Liverpool to the point of conceding three goals, van Dijk was unnerved, Alexander-Arnold was unnerved - these are some of the best defenders in the world.

"I have to say, I thought it was a thing of beauty to watch, I really did. Exceptional games, I think Leeds fans are going to get this season, particularly when they get back in the ground.

"The atmosphere will be absolutely electric. For me, I think it’s the fact that they made Liverpool feel so uncomfortable. No doubt they are going to concede goals at the other end of the pitch.

"I’d imagine it’s thrilling every day as a Leeds player to go into that training ground and work under that man, to play the game in that way, to have that fearless approach whereby you basically are told to go after your man, win the ball back, duels one v one, throwback as Jamie said before. I’ve not got one negative thing to say.

"Liverpool haven’t been beaten at home in 60 matches, and those defenders would’ve come off that pitch on Saturday, and thought, ‘What the hell was that?’, they won’t have a clue what just happened. There’s no shape to that game. There’s nothing you would ordinarily recognise in a game of football. It was brilliant."

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