Leeds' tactics vs Millwall, Hull and Watford

Talking tactics with YEP duo Graham Smyth and Joe Donnohue as Leeds prepare to face Southampton.

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00:00 in terms of rest defense, leads are quite good at this under Farker, because what you might have

00:05 noticed is that when Archie Gray starts and Luke Ehrling gets forward and essentially joins the

00:10 forward line, Archie drops into right back. So you've essentially at all times, you always have

00:16 a four man back line. It just means that the personnel is slightly different. Against Watford,

00:21 when Sam Byram got forward, which he did quite often, Glenn Kamara dropped into left back.

00:28 So again, you had four at the back, depending on which side you were attacking on.

00:32 Rossignol was basically saying what he didn't want to do was just throw the ball forward from

00:37 the first pass. He wanted Hull to build pressure because he felt that that was the safer way to

00:43 play against a team with what he called Premier League athletes in transition.

00:47 Well, Millwall played with wing backs, didn't they? They had a back three.

00:51 Where did those two Dan James chances come from? I mean, Rutez goal, that comes from Dan James

00:58 breaking down the right. And then the, was it Pirro when he scores? Who crosses for James and

01:05 then James scuffs his opportunity for the second goal at Millwall. Oh, that's a really good.

01:11 I can't remember who it is. It might be Ehrling. But for that one, again,

01:15 Leeds got down the sides. They identified that. Maybe they pushed the wing backs up,

01:20 tried to play the ball out to the wing backs. Maybe didn't win the first ball or won the first,

01:25 but not the second and then Leeds were away into the space.