Pontus Jansson tried to prevent Aston Villa fair play goal and argued with Bielsa!

Paul Singh 6 years ago 2.4k
There was controversy over Bielsa's decision to allow Aston Villa to score. Capturas/Sky Sports

The Swede Pontus Jansson did not agree at all with his coach's decision to allow Aston Villa to score after Leeds United had taken the lead in controversial fashion.

Pontus Jansson almost caused another argument amongst the Leeds and Aston Villa benches after trying to prevent Albert Adomah from levelling the scores after the Leeds manager had ordered his defence to let them scor. Leeds had taken the lead in controversial fashion.

Mateus Klich gave the hosts the lead in the 72nd minute after Aston Villa stopped after one of their players was down injured. Leeds did not put the ball out of play and tempers flared both on the pitch and on the touchline between Marcelo Bielsa and John Terry. Two yellow cards were dished out by Stuart Attwell and Villa got a red card before the Leeds manager ordered his team to let Villa equalise. Not all of the players agreed though

What is clear is that Leeds' decision to allow their visitors to equalise was far from unanimous. 

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