Silence on Elland Road

On the visit of Liverpoolthe common vigor of the noisy stand of Elland Road replaced Monday with difficult moments of silence. They lived during the prolegomena of the game, where the leeds united gave a memorial tribute to the 97 ‘reds’ fans who died in the tragedy of hillsboroughwhere 34 years were celebrated on April 15. And they also continued, and above all, because of the fear caused by the tense and difficult moment that the historic club of Yorkshireagain beaten mercilessly (1-6), and the strength from the beginning of the year is waning with each game in Premieruntil they fell into the threatening positions of relegation.

The night, which began with that heartfelt memory as a tribute to the fans of Liverpoolalong with the two captains who made a foral offering numbered 97, the victims who died in the painful avalanche of Sheffield of 1989, turned blacker to leeds when the ‘whites’ added another cruel defeat and the goals were falling, one after another, without a clear response, against the team led by the Spaniards Javi Grace. The situation of leeds gives very alarming signs. He has conceded 11 goals in his last two games Elland Roadand his defense has been split, with worrying cracks, since the loss of the Austrian central defender to injury Max Wöber, signed from Salzburg, one of its unmistakable headlines. That’s the drama leeds is again just two points from relegation, marking the Nottingham Forest.

The panic generated by the possibility of another drop leeds , like the one from 2004, was in the mood of the fans, whose constant chanting alternated with loud moments without almost any noise, which revealed the suffering they were preparing. since the march of Marcelo Bielsathe club that leads the investment group Asher VenturesItalian property Andrea Radrizzani, it fell, without hitting the right direction. In leeds united It took him 16 years to return to the highest category of English football, a drama that lived painfully in the capital of WestYorkshire where is the ‘crazy’ bielsa He knows how to finish, with his motivating methods. Since 2020, the stay of leeds in Premier It has been put on hold, although its loyal fans have not stopped filling the stadium. maybe that’s it alex ferguson come to say of Elland Road that it was the “scariest” field he had ever played on.

The first year with bielsaagain on Premierhe leeds He held out in the middle of the table, but the second the team fell, bad results started and the board sacked the Argentine coach, in February 2022, after losing 2-4 against him. Manchester Utd, one of his fierce rivals. What happened next, with its replacement Jesse Marchand now Javi Grace They have become a dance of technical and cautious signings with little attacking performance and desperate remedies to save themselves from their lost identity. The arrival of the Spanish coach brought little reaction, which was destroyed in two winning matches Crystal palace and the Liverpool.

Leeds is the traditional birthplace of English football and a place of incredible football passion, but the ghosts of the dark past soon return. And the dynamics of the team, already facing the painful fight for not going down, looks very bad.