Leeds United's 2020/21 Premier League campaign was a successful one by all accounts.
Finishing the season in ninth place was a tremendous success for a squad largely comprised of the same players Marcelo Bielsa inherited when he took over the Leeds United job in 2018.
The beauty of Leeds' rise back to footballing prominence has been Bielsa's methods.
For so long, and throughout this season, they have been debated, scrutinised and questioned - yet Leeds' performance this season trumps those dissenting voices and misinformed naysayers.
Towards the end of the season, it became a commonly-used trope for opposition players and managers to trot out in pre and post-match press conferences: 'We know how much Leeds can run'.
It has become the team's identity - they are the Premier League's fittest team and by some distance.
As two Premier League outfits contested the UEFA Champions League final, Leeds supporters took to online forum Reddit to discuss how Marcelo Bielsa has single-handedly changed the way they watch football.
A thread titled 'Hearing commentators describe the UCL final as having 'unrelenting pace' seems almost sarcastic when you've been spoiled by 3 years of Bielsaball' in r/LeedsUnited drew numerous comments.
One supporter replied: "Haha. The only team I watch is Leeds. I watched part of the match today. I was bored. Lol."
While another said: "Honestly every football game looks slow compared to bielsa ball" complete with a laughing emoji.
"Bielsa reignited my passion for football whilst simultaneously ruining it" another quipped.
The way Leeds supporters consume and observe football matches now has been irrevocably changed. A 90-minute weekly dose of Bielsa's football has made high-intensity matches played at the highest level appear almost sedate.
Chelsea's Champions League triumph was a high-octane affair, with both the Blues and Manchester City sparring to gain supremacy, eventually secured by Thomas Tuchel's men.
However, both managers failed to beat Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds this season, with the Whites drawing once against Tuchel, as well as a draw and a victory versus Pep Guardiola's Man City.
