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Marcelo Bielsa admits his Leeds United team are struggling to create chances following a third successive Premier League defeat against Brighton... and mounts staunch defence of out-of-sorts striker Patrick Bamford

Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa admitted last night that he was worried by his usually swashbuckling team’s failure to create chances, after three successive defeats in which they have failed to score since the turn of the year.

After blanks against Tottenham and Crawley Town, the team created just two chances on Saturday – the same as Brighton, who had only 34 per cent of possession.

Asked if the failure to create worried him, Bielsa said: ‘I agree with your analysis. The fluidity to attack is not the same in the last two games to what we have been used to.