Leeds United are having a season that will be fondly remembered if promotion can be secured, and fans have been sharing what they consider to be our best game so far.
The question of what has been Marcelo Bielsa’s best Championship fixture came about after the Yorkshire Evening Post published an article ranking the 32 games played so far to determine which one they considered to be our best display yet.
At one end of the table was that humbling defeat away to West Bromwich Albion back in November, when the hosts ran riot with our backline, and the entire side failed to get a foot into the tie.
Along the way, there were some more middle of the road results that will not be held in high or low regard down the years, but the game picked out by the YEP to be our best came at the start of the campaign, away to Derby County.
The Rams may have landed us in hot bother more recently with the ‘Spygate’ drama, but back in August, Bielsa showed Frank Lampard that life in the dugout is not, and will not, always be rosy, as the Whites fired four past Scott Carson to wrap up the game after 64 minutes.
Not every supporter agreed with the Derby clash being our best game so far, with a lot of replies tipping a range of Bielsa’s successes for the mid-season accolade…
I thought we actually played better at Forest away than we did in many of the games we have won. Played them off the park both halves, just unlucky with the sending off.
— LoveLeedsUnited (@LoveLeedsUnited) February 20, 2019
Phil, the best thing is none of these will be in our top 10 by the end of the season!
— Don Bielsa (@ScottMu21874976) February 20, 2019
I agree with pretty much all of that. Number 30 is what scares me, with WBA and Blunts on the horizon: we routinely bottle high pressure home games. (Derby wasn’t same ilk.)
— CK (@ephemeraljoy) February 20, 2019
Performance wise I agree Phil. Derby Away was the first ‘wow’ moment for me. That was incredible. But emotion wise, beating Villa away and Blackburn home the way we did in the space of a few days was untouchable #lufc
— Lee B (@LeeB_LUFC) February 20, 2019
It’s the business end of the season. The players have previously crumbled under the pressure under Monk and Christiansen. The hope is, they can now deal with this pressure, the games against WBA and Sheff Utd are the must wins. We didn’t cope in high pressure match vs Norwich.
— Tom Holynski (@ThommHol) February 20, 2019
The top 5 games are bang on! Hope we can recreate that quality and get to the @premierleague ????????
— Rob Smith (@JuceeRob) February 20, 2019
Surely the Stoke game at the start of the season because that set the right tone.
— SAMUEL ???????????????? (@Murray__87) February 20, 2019
I think Norwich at home wasn’t that low a performance (for 70 minutes) and we were punished with clinical finishing. Stoke and West Brom away the worst by far for me.
— Richard Westcott (@rickywestcott82) February 20, 2019
Sheffield utd away and Blackburn at home boxing day felt HUGE to be honest.
Agree with the rest tho.
Derby away probably my favourite aswell from the year.
We looked scary good.Good read Philip.
— Benjamin Thornton (@BenjaminTlufc) February 20, 2019
Yeah, they seemed abject at Carrow Road. Their fans were in despair at that stage of the season.
— DanC (@DanSeanClayton) February 20, 2019