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da dobrowin： Marcelo Bielsa is almost impossible to criticise most of the time.
Indeed, the Leeds United manager is such a beloved figure at Elland Road, to the point where fans daren’t say a bad word about him.
However, if there is to be one complaint about Bielsa it’s that he’s stubborn.
Time and time again he’s been described by the fans in this manner, and this is down to the faith he shows his players.
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Many fans have had bones to pick with Jack Harrison and Patrick Bamford this season. Both players have started every single match – even if they don’t deserve to.
Harrison went on a run of six games without completing a single accurate cross while Bamford has now gone nine matches without hitting the back of the net. Bielsa’s faith in the pair, therefore, have hardly been vindicated at times.
On a similar note, there were many calls for Kiko Casilla to be sold this summer, but he remained at the club, and he’s now proving his doubters wrong.
After a couple of clangers in the playoff semi-final against Derby County last term, the Spaniard was public enemy number one at Elland Road, but now he’s looking like the player Leeds expected when he arrived.
United have kept the most clean sheets in the Championship, as well as conceding the fewest number of goals, and that’s in no small part down to Casilla.
His performance against Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday further vindicated Bielsa’s faith in him as he made four saves and three high claims on his way to another clean sheet.
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The former Real Madrid man has reacted brilliantly to the faith placed in him from the Argentine, and now it’s time for some of the other heavily criticised members of the squad to do the same thing.
This isn’t blind stubbornness from Bielsa, this is a manager who sees these players train every single day, and he knows what they’re capable of.
This isn’t an inability to adapt, this is good man-management, and Casilla is evidence that this type of trust can be repaid.