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David Byrom

Leeds United fans all spot the same Marcelo Bielsa trait in West Brom starting line-up

Leeds United fans have hailed Marcelo Bielsa for once again naming an unchanged side against West Brom.

The Whites were in action just 48 hours earlier with a 1-0 win over Burnley and Bielsa was suitably impressed enough to name the same side.

That is despite Bielsa's intensive playing style and a hectic fixture schedule which sees them play again against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.

With plenty of pundits predicting that Leeds' players would suffer burnout from Bielsa's style of football in the Premier League, fans are intrigued to see how their side handles playing again with such a short turnaround.

Liam Cooper once again issues out for Leeds after suffering an injury in the pre-Christmas defeat to Manchester United.

It means Luke Ayling will again likely play at centre-back alongside Pascal Striujk.

Speaking to the media ahead of the game, Whites star Mateusz Klich said he was under no illusions how big the game was.

He said: "It's very important, we have to win against the teams that are going to be around us.

"West Brom mare going to be there and we have to beat them today.

"Every game, we are looking for three points, especially today.

"I don't mind if we score an early goal as it's easier but we need to be focussed for 90 minutes because the end of the game against Burnley was very hectic and very stressful.

"Our goal is to score a second and third goal to kill the game, hopefully we can do that today but West Brom are going to be difficult to beat.

"We've lost a lot of goals from set-pieces, that's not our strongest thing and we need to work on that.

"Against Burnley, who are one of the strongest teams on set-pieces, we did well and we have to keep doing it as West Brom will count on set-pieces as well."

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