Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa has revealed where Eddie Nketiah must improve to challenge Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang next season.
Bielsa was involved in an long exchange with journalists at his weekly press conference on Thursday afternoon over his use of on-loan Arsenal forward.
Despite the 20-year-old's impressive goalscoring form both club and country this season, he is yet to start a Championship game for the Whites which has resulted in speculation that the Gunners could recall their man in January.
But Bielsa has now opened up on what the England youth international must do to challenge Aubameyang upon his expected return to the Emirates next season.
"And he has all the resources, skills, to resolve the needs of scoring one goal," Bielsa said, as per Leeds Live .
"But we need to build the chance at goal. And we cannot build the chances if we don’t have a structure within all the players to create the chances.
"You will see that every time is going to be less difficult to Eddie to be more similar to give this contribution to the team. When he in the last match went to the pitch at Preston, the match was played in the place of the pitch where he plays better, by the box.
"Against Birmingham he was far from the box and without offensive creation.
"And against Birmingham he didn’t have a good match, against Preston he had an impact. To finish this explanation, the most important, what he does when we have to score. Nketiah is very good at scoring. Also Bamford.
"But Bamford is missing chances and Nketiah is scoring.
"But there is a fact before you score a goal, you build the situation that allow the chance to score."
Bielsa then explained how Nketiah ran further than Bamford, but not in the right sense.
He added: "You know why? Bamford ran for the needs of the team. Nketiah ran just to try and score
"The metres that Bamford ran is true to the team. And to finish, Nketiah puts these meters in to finish the action.
"It’s natural. What I’m looking for, to achieve that Eddie feels the needs of the team and that he understands if he doesn’t put the metres in both things, he is going to have less chances to score."
