Former Leeds United forward Eddie Nketiah scored for Arsenal during their FA Cup fifth-round tie at Portsmouth on Monday night. The 20-year-old spent the first half of the season on loan at Elland Road but returned to the Emirates Stadium after having started just 8% of the club’s Championship fixtures.
Since his return to North London, he’s scored three goals in six appearances which has sparked much debate as to why it didn’t work out for the England Under-21 international in Yorkshire.
Did Leeds United make a mistake not utilising Nketiah more?
Yes
No
Following a tweet from Ben Jacobs, a sports journalist, these Leeds United fans have leapt to the defence of Marcelo Bielsa’s decision not to play the young forward regularly.
in the style Leeds play Benny. Striker needs to be able to hold the ball up and bring other players in, nketiah is good but a poacher style player
— andrew (@andrewlufclad) March 2, 2020
We did start him, it didn’t work
— Thomas Roberts (@Thomas_Roberts2) March 2, 2020
Eddie got injured and we won 7 on the trot ????
— Adam Barlow (@AdamPaulBarlow) March 3, 2020
We are about to go up as champions I think bielsa knows what he’s doing.
— Dave from beeston (@richard67293755) March 3, 2020
Wrong on so many levels.
— Christopher McHale (@ChristoMac61) March 3, 2020
He got bullied by championship defenders. They get away with a lot of argy Bargy when playing Leeds.
— Cohen (@electricjimbo) March 3, 2020
Fine talent, great future and we wish him nothing but the best.
However, your comment is baseless and obviously put out there with nothing in the way of actual research regarding our Mgr or method of play…..— Terry O’ Brien (@tobtipp) March 3, 2020
If you ever bothered to watch Leeds play then you would have already deleted this stupid tweet.
— SA (@Aravind_SA) March 3, 2020
What do we think?
The Leeds supporters have reacted angrily to Ben Jacobs’ tweet as they believe the Arsenal man was unable to adapt his game and play the Bielsa way. The Whites are on their way to securing promotion back to the Premier League for the first time since they were relegated at the end of the 2003/04 season so you can understand why they show such faith in their manager’s methods.