Marcelo Bielsa reveals how he plans to improve Leeds United's finishing ahead of Hull City trip

Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa.Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa.
Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa.
Marcelo Bielsa revealed how he was using a 14-point training routine to sharpen Leeds United's finishing but insisted he would devote no extra work to that side of their game despite seeing the club slip off the top of the Championship.

Leeds will attempt to regain first place against Hull City on Tuesday night following a frustrating evening at Sheffield Wednesday where chances went begging and Wednesday clung on for an ill-deserved 1-1 draw.

Bielsa’s players converted just one of 25 efforts on goal on Friday, averting a second successive defeat but falling short of the win a dominant display merited and leave themselves on a run of one victory from five games.

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Leeds remain in a strong league position, lying second and a point behind West Bromwich Albion, but West Brom’s tally of 25 goals and current run of four wins from five Championship matches has propelled them to the front of the field.

Bielsa said he regularly put his squad through a pre-existing exercise focused entirely on finishing but said he was confident that performances as one-sided as that seen at Hillsborough would pay off over the long term.

“Sometimes you do the right thing and you don't get the result,” Bielsa said. “Sometimes you do the wrong thing and you get the result.

I'm in the form of my life, reveals Mateusz Klich“But if you don't do the right thing, you can't assume you’ll get the right result in the long term. If you do things right, at the end of the day you’ll get what you deserve.

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“We work on finishing but if you’re efficient in training sessions it does not mean you have the guarantee to be efficient during games. As head coaches we work on creating chances to score.