All the Leeds players looked to be having fun. The reward for their strict and superb defending was permission for free-swimming on turnovers, as if Leeds knew they weren't going to get much of the ball so were determined to enjoy it when they did.
I know Bielsa will always love Newell's the most, and one football fan to another I respect that he'll never change. But dear me Leeds must run them close.
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The sense of Leeds United is that the club does know what it's doing, and it has been winning this game with itself from the start. Winning is easier when you're winning, and when draws are helping you win and defeats aren't hurting you, you're winning all the time.
Pugh slotted in for a season of post-relegation delirium when fans were trying to reassure each other that this could be a better, harder working team than in the erratic days of the Champions League.
One of the straight up delights of Anton Stach this season is that Leeds United have a technical and witty player who can and does fire free-kicks, without fuss, straight into the back of the net.
Leeds were taking on Europe's best and winning, but the wars of words were becoming different since Leeds kept coming out on top. David O'Leary, however, was still finding plenty to say.
The long story of Danny Mills at Leeds says more about the Peter Ridsdale era than any goldfish could.
Football is escapism, and a football game is played in one place between the referee's starting and ending whistles, and if everyone remembers that, we might get more games like this.
Rio Ferdinand just wanted to hear the Champions League anthem, and Leeds fans just wanted some flair to excite them. Then Ian Harte stepped up.
Maturity brings temperament in big moments, and Leeds discovered at the turn of the century how hard it is to achieve good things without it. Leeds are discovering, as this season turns towards its final months, just how much of a good thing they've got.
Aaronson was helpfully metaphorising the whole team's response to losing to Arsenal, so thanks to him for summing up the night. He didn't have to get kicked so much, and Leeds didn't have to win this game, but it's good that everybody involved got on with those things anyway.