At 03:45 Beijing time on February 24, the 19th round of the Premier League, Salah and Mane scored twice at the same time, Matip and Van Dijk scored 1 goal each, Leeds United was defeated by Liverpool 6-0 away, and was humiliated by the 9-0 total score of two legs.
The 66-year-old Bielsa has always admired attacking football, but in this game away to Liverpool, they only completed 3 shots on goal, but were wildly shot by Liverpool 23 times, and 15 shots were on target.
Originally, Leeds United was only 0-4 behind in the 90th minute, but did not expect to concede two goals in three minutes of stoppage time, setting a shameful record in team history. The 6-0 win was Leeds United's biggest defeat against Liverpool in 58 years, having previously lost at most 0-5.
This season, Bielsa's side has exposed too many problems on the defensive end. They have conceded 3 or more goals in a single game in their last 4 league games, conceding a total of 16 goals and conceding an average of 4 goals per game. They have conceded 56 goals after 25 rounds, the most conceded in the Premier League, and this number of goals conceded is placed in the range of Europe's five major leagues, and only Fürth, who is at the bottom of the Bundesliga, and Bordeaux, who are at the bottom of Ligue 1, have more than them.
In just 71 days, Bielsa's team has been beaten in two consecutive tragedies. Previously, Leeds United was beaten 7-0 by another title-contending favourite, Manchester City. It was the first time in nearly 87 years that Leeds United had conceded six or more goals in two league games in a single season, the last time coming only in 1934/35, when they lost 8-1 to Stoke City and 1-7 to Chelsea.