Daniel Wales and Lee Sobot discuss how Leeds United should set up for their play-off final clash at Wembley against Southampton.
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00:00 It is Leeds vs Southampton in the playoff final at Wembley on Sunday.
00:06 Of course, they only met each other not so long ago on the final day of the championship
00:10 season with Southampton running away as 2-1 winners at Elland Road which helped to consign
00:14 Leeds to the playoffs.
00:16 But let's be honest, it was already pretty inevitable given the way things were looking
00:20 prior to that match.
00:22 So that might be a bit of a psychological edge in favour of Southampton but of course
00:28 Leeds very good against Norwich and backed their best and that will fill them with confidence.
00:33 Southampton getting there with a 0-0 draw at the Hawthorns before a 3-1 win at home
00:38 at St Mary's against West Brom in the return leg.
00:41 So Lee, you've said there Daniel Falkirk could look at it two ways.
00:47 He could go with the attacking way he employed against Norwich in the second leg or he could
00:52 perhaps take an attacker out and perhaps try to be more difficult to break down and contain
00:57 Southampton at least for large parts of the game if you were to be more defensive.
01:02 So what do you think is more likely?
01:03 Do you think maybe because Southampton have beaten them so recently, Leeds might be a
01:07 little bit more tempted to sit in and contain and then maybe if the game needs to open up
01:13 towards the end of it then perhaps push on or would he just want to go out all guns blazing
01:18 and win the game by half-time?
01:20 It's a big call really isn't it and you summarised it brilliantly there.
01:23 At the end of the day, Daniel Falkirk said it himself after the 2-1 defeat at Elland
01:27 Road.
01:28 He said basically, his words are along the lines of if we met in the playoffs we'd have
01:32 a different approach.
01:34 Maybe that's a clue in itself because obviously what he was basically saying is that in that
01:37 final game of the season, look it was so unlikely.
01:40 I think we already all knew there were going to be playoffs which weren't going to slip
01:43 up and stuff and I think most of the players kind of felt that as well.
01:47 But he had to have a go for it and that's his team selection and stuff and the way they
01:52 went for it was very much geared towards that effect, having a go early on and stuff.
01:57 His words afterwards, well will it be a bit different if we play him in the playoffs?
02:00 Well possibly but the gut instinct with this now is that after clicking so well in that
02:05 4-0 absolute hammering of Norwich then why not just go for it again?
02:09 Because there would be the chance that they could just blow him away from the start and
02:12 that's what you would hope.
02:13 So it's going to be a big call though because if he does that obviously and then they end
02:17 up getting exposed at the back and go 1-0 down early or something like that then obviously
02:21 you start looking at it thinking well should we have gone a bit more defensive?
02:25 The obvious option is to go with this three-man midfield thing obviously they did at Norwich
02:28 which made them a lot three-man in midfield and a bit harder to break down.
02:31 But I just think after that 4-0 win, everybody was springing the step.
02:35 The natural thing to do would be to do that and just sort of really go, not guns blazing
02:41 but try and get on the front foot really.
02:44 He has always said that in his press conferences as well, Daniel Farker, he's always said that
02:48 whatever he's managed at Leeds United there won't be a team that sit back, there will
02:51 be a team that want to be on the front foot, that want to push things, that want to get
02:55 ahead early and stuff.
02:56 I just think that first leg at Norwich was a one-off.
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