It was a volatile game. Non-stop attacking, eight goals, and an intensity and openness that has grown accustom to featuring in games starring Marcelo Bielsa’s promoted side. Expectedly, the game oversaw both teams attempt many shots, with 26 to 17, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Manchester United worked very hard on and off the ball, matching Bielsa’s Leeds United’s intensity, and was another example of Solskjaer successfully adopting an approach specifically suited to the game at hand.
You, the reader, and I (Ryan, editor), make predictions or offer educated guesses on what may or may not or, should or shouldn’t happen during games. I sometimes tweet my own or write them down in one of my many notebooks used across the season. Sunday’s encounter between two fierce rivals offered a mixed result for those I made prior to kick-off.
As a result, I thought noting on the takes themselves and what the actual outcome was and why it was would make an interesting piece, even though different to what is usually written.
Without further ado…
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