Today's presser
Bielsa's here - injury news
Klich and Llorente are available. Phillips and Rodrigo are not. Every team has problems with injuries. Some more than others. Sometimes there’s teams who have many injuries at the same period. Things we know about and have to find solutions.

Wolves a good example of that? Coping without Jimenez
To build a team is not a task done in one year. In the case of their centre-forward, to replace him they brought in a player with good pedigree. We made our signings at the beginning of the year. A big effort for this. A big effort to preserve Meslier, Harrison, Helder Costa and to bring in the other four. To adapt your squad is a difficult or complicated task. To have a complete squad in your first year in the PL is very difficult. Very important to develop some players. In the case of Pascal, Shackleton, players you have to look for a good RB, eight, CM or CD. We have to make reference to how much it would cost to get good players in those positions. The example is Leeds wanted to buy Ben White for £30m and we weren’t able to. We have to go in a careful manner and evolve the group.

Meslier - inevitable he will make mistakes?
There’s no GK that doesn’t make any mistakes. GKs consolidate themselves when they get over mistakes they’ve made. It’s normal the critics forget about what you’ve done in the past and fix themselves on the present. A better answer than mine, would be the one Liverpool manager gave on the same subject.

Phillips - stick with Struijk or others capable?
Pascal is one option, but we have others in the group. I prefer not to anticipate and tell the team.

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He’s recovering from his injury and return is subject to evolution from injury.

Gelhardt development
He’s a player always creating danger in a game. He’s a player who’s more linked with the finalising of chances rather than the creation of them. He has resources to beat an opponent and he has a shot, finish that is very good.

Loanees out - how closely do you monitor them?
We watch every game they play. It’s very important they can compete. We hope they will be able to shine and show the qualities they have. Fundamentally, they play with continuity. They have to show they shine when they participate. That’s the objective. Alfie McCalmont and Edmondson are out too. We follow them closely in a detailed manner.

Rodrigo unavailable - importance of Roberts?
Tyler and Rodrigo have things in common. They’re strikers who can play as lone strikers or behind a striker. In the game against Arsenal he had a significant weight in the game. Our offensive game improved a lot in the second half and he had a lot to do with that improvement. He’s in condition to leave his mark when he participates.

Traore dribbling dominance - how hard to defend against?
We don’t play a system where it’s man to man marking. We put a defender where an opponent puts an attacker. If the attacker abandons that position for another attacker to occupy it, if possible we change the markers to avoid the marker following. When this happens quickly during an action it’s better to follow the man than leave him to a team-mate. I believe, fundamentally, Traore likes to play out wide on the wings. If he dominates the ball on his side he’s difficult to start, so whoever’s marking him will need some support.

"Confrontation of ideas" against Wolves?
They’re a team who can play in different tactical schemes. When they need to make changes they can bring on a sub which doesn’t alter the quality of the team. They have wingers who are very good. It’s not easy to find good wingers in football at the moment. They’re team who defends well without this preventing them from attacking. When they attack they are cautious of what they leave behind. Very few times have I seen them dominated.

Plan for Llorente's return?
He’s available to play right now and depending on development in the next few games we will see how we use him. The needs of the first team will decide how much we use him.

Leeds success give hope to future promoted sides?
To consolidate yourself in the PL is more than one year whether things have gone good or bad. What’s very important is a group of 18 starters where you don’t notice the difference between players coming in or going out. A good group of young players who can contribute. To have an academy with players who can play a part. This process needs to go on without it generating non-tranquility. To develop a project for the PL, fundamentally, needs players. The money to obtain them or patience to develop them.

Llorente - unlucky or body not up to PL demands?
He’s an international with Spain. A player formed at Real Madrid. I consider what you’re saying. Very difficult to ignore the injuries he’s had. There’s only one satisfactory response to your question: he doesn’t repeat another of these injuries, play regularly and show his qualities. That’s what we desire. He works in a big way to make sure this happens. Anything I say you can come back with the points you’ve made. The only way to have consistency in the response is if he comes back and plays regularly. If he comes back and can’t play regularly, then the response can’t be consistent. That’s why we have to wait and see what happens.

Three matches in nine days - Phillips and Rodrigo chance for the other two?
I could not give you a sure answer. If I tell you no they won’t play, one could make it for one of those games. If I tell you yes, I can’t say with certainty. Sometimes a response which seems like a formality is the only way I can answer because it’s subject to how they evolve.

Have you noticed opposition centre-backs splitting wider to bypass Bamford's press?
If you are referring to the last game, the two centre-backs and the two DMs of Arsenal, they were a problem for us throughout the first half. Of course, this situation didn’t surprise us. We imagined the way of resolving this and the opponent imagined the way of imposing this. IN the game against Leicester for example, the situation was the same. Two CBs and two DMs. In that game the solutions that we tried to implement were good. But in a moment in this game it didn’t work in the same manner. In games you can analyse segments of the game, but a game is more about totality. In the game against Arsenal there was 40 minutes on both halves where the opponents played better than us or predominantly better than us but we also had 40 minutes where we dominated Arsenal or were predominately better and there were around 15 minutes that were neutral. We had better possession that Arsenal. The dominance was similar.

You have to analyse the defensive production. Because it’s better to dominate while creating danger than not to dominate and not create danger. But if you look at the offensive production, this was also equal. Arsenal in the first half created double the chances we did. They had four chances and scored two goals, we had two and scored none. In the second half it was exactly the opposite. They created three chances and scored one goal, we created six and scored two. So the offensive production of the two teams was equal. How efficient in which they scored. Being 4-0 down to convert this to 4-2 and being close to scoring the third goal can’t be ignored.Normally when a team is losing 4-0 they lose by the same amount or by more goals. So the change of the team in the second half has a lot of value. It also has value that we had less elements at our disposal in the second half to be able to do this. Of course I’m worried about the amount of goals that we are conceding. As we go resolving certain problems, other problems start to appear but I don’t lose sight of trying to make a correct analyse of what actually happened in the game. The game doesn’t finish when Arsenal score the first goal. It finishes when Shackleton misses the chance for 4-3 in the 92nd minute.

When I evaluate our development I consider a lot of aspects. When a team is able to consolidate a goalkeeper like Meslier, a defender like Stuijk, and midfielder like Shackleton it means that the design of the group to have to count on a player Pascal, Meslier and to a lesser extend Shackleton, because Shackleton still hasn’t played a sufficient amount has a high economic price. You see how much a Premier League-standard goalkeeper, defender, midfielder/right-back cost. You’ll see that a club that invested £100m, they need to be able to count on players that they didn’t have to buy and to try and do this and to be able to do this the young players need minutes. And in some way this is what Leeds is trying to do.