Marcelo Bielsa's Plan A fine-tuned; Ben White fills Pontus Jansson's big shoes and Whites must-haves in summer transfer window

WATCH AND ADMIRE: Leeds United's Spanish magician Pablo Hernandez fires Leeds United ahead at Bristol City. Picture by Mark Kerton/PA Wire.

AFTER seeing Leeds United begin their Championship campaign with a 3-1 win at Bristol City, Lee Sobot takes a look at a few key talking points from Sunday's triumph at Ashton Gate.

Plan A fine-tuned

Whites head coach Marcelo Bielsa lit up the Championship with his high press, free-flowing, pass and move attacking football during his first season in charge of Leeds only for the campaign to end in tears by missing out on first automatic promotion and then falling to defeat to Derby County in the play-offs.

But if plan-A fails the Bielsa way is usually to try and execute plan-A better and that looked absolutely the case at Ashton Gate with the Robins suffocated by United's impressive high octane football.

Quite how Lee Johnson's side will fare this season remains to be seen but United looked in fine fettle with Bielsa's methods clearly now embedded deep within the squad.

There were a few dicey moments at the other end with Kiko Casilla causing heart palpitations even if the Spaniard did make one excellent save and the last ten minutes were rather more nervy than they should have been after Andreas Weimann's strike 11 minutes from time.

But Leeds could and should have scored five or six with the omens again looking very promising at this very early stage; especially with main summer signing Helder Costa only starting on the bench.

Patrick Bamford up and running

Bamford has been the subject of much debate over the summer with Leeds unquestionably guilty of squandering far too many goalscoring chances last season with Bamford guilty of some big misses in the Spring.

Marcelo Bielsa's Plan A fine-tuned; Ben White fills Pontus Jansson's big shoes and Whites must-haves in summer transfer window - Leeds United Talking Points