Marcelo Bielsa sets out Raphinha stance ahead of Leeds United’s trip to Liverpool

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Bielsa’s here – Koch latest

He is perfect. Can you be more precise in the question towards the end?

[You told us it was for a bad cut, but now is concussion the reason?]

Koch clash and he gets a cut where blood starts coming out from. He continues in the game after the evaluation the doctors had with the blood flowing from his head. He continued to play because the only problem was a cut on his head. That was not the case. After five minutes with the player, the medical staff would have substituted him. The consequences of the clash was something different to the clash and the blood produced. The first conclusion after being five minutes with the player, was he could continue because he only had a cut and the issue was resolved. That’s why he came off. They bandaged him and changed his shirt and shorts. He continues to play. During the time he continued to play he acted perfectly. There was no indicator. I looked over the sequences and there was no reason to believe he had limitations. In a moment, the player sits down, the doctors come on and he indicates he has symptoms he did not have when the clash happened. In that moment, as it could not have been any other way, as three symptoms appeared after, we decided a change. As you should know, the symptoms are a clash like this take 24 hours to appear, so in the solution we all did what corresponded. Everything within the protocol. I was convinced it was just the bleeding from the cut. That was the first conclusion after the examination. When he manifested different symptoms he was substituted. The control the player receives when they get this type of knock, the protocol applied is what generates whether he should be substituted or not. Not every knock generates a sub. If not, the knock James got from Shaw would have also led to a sub. As I did not have the reason within reach, that’s why I did not want to make use of the fourth sub. I did not have the certainty the sub was contemplated in deserving it. Initially, it was the cut and not the clash. After it was the clash. I stayed with the position with the absurd idea of ​​not abusing the rules. The prevention of the knocks on the players’ heads is very serious. That can generate real dramas. Also true you should not dramatise situations that don’t deserve to be interpreted in the way they have been interpreted because if there’s something the medical staff at Leeds have done, and I as an extension of their decisions, it’s to abide strictly with the rules whether by Covid or knocks to the head and more. Any club acted impeccably with health, it’s Leeds.

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