Southampton away. October 16, 2021. A day it felt like the first penny dropped on what this season may become for Leeds United.
After labouring to a tight, first win of the season at the seventh time of asking, the highs of the previous three years were papering over the cracks that have lingered throughout 2021/22. The cracks that ripped through two weeks of wallpapering during the October international break delivered some of the biggest blows of Marcelo Bielsa’s tenure.
That trip to the sunny south coast remains one of the worst performances we have seen from a Leeds side under the Argentine. The writing was on the wall with the events of the international break, though.
