Kalvin Phillips brilliantly hits back to Gabby Agbonlahor’s tweet after Leeds came out victorious with a 3-0 win over Aston Villa on Friday.
This game has plenty of history behind it, even more so for that memorable moment in the 2018/19 season which saw Marcelo Bielsa allow Villa to score.
The Aregntine ordered his players to allow Albert Adomah a free shot on goal as Mateusz Klich scored for Leeds despite Jonathan Kodjia, the Villa forward, going down injured.
The most incredible scenes we have EVER seen! You need to see this to believe it ?
Marcelo Bielsa makes his team let Aston Villa score after Leeds United scored extremely controversially! ?
 pic.twitter.com/hzoiH4oRBR— Soccer AM (@SoccerAM) April 28, 2019
A lot was riding on Friday night’s fixture despite it being early on in the new season, Leeds were coming off the back of a 1-0 defeat by Wolves, whilst Aston Villa produced that shock 7-2 win against Liverpool.
On the day of the Premier League clash, former Villa player Gabriel Agbonlahor took to his social media account, writing “Good morning to everyone but Leeds fans.”
Good morning to everyone but Leeds fans ??
— Gabriel Agbonlahor (@officialga11) October 23, 2020
Villa came into Friday’s game having won their first four games of a league campaign for the first time since 1930-31.
Patrick Bamford’s first Premier League hat-trick takes him to six goals for the season, preventing the hosts making it a club record five victories on the spin to open their season.
The win takes the Whites up to 3rd in the Premier League table, a place behind Aston Villa in second.
After the game, Kalvin Phillips, who is out injured, quoted retweeted Gabby, saying: “Goodnight to all Leeds fans. Sleep tight @officialga11”
Goodnight to all Leeds fans ??? sleep tight @officialga11 ?? https://t.co/jIKjbktSVG
— Kalvin Phillips (@Kalvinphillips) October 23, 2020
Gabby replied to Kalvin’s tweet with laughing crying emojis.
Agbonlahor also wrote: “Great Perfomance by Leeds yesterday. And well done Bamford. Nothing feels better than scoring a premier league hatrick against a top 4 club.
Great Perfomance by Leeds yesterday. And well done Bamford ??. Nothing feels better than scoring a premier league hatrick against a top 4 club? pic.twitter.com/OOMbF0odcq
— Gabriel Agbonlahor (@officialga11) October 24, 2020
Gabby, a new talkSPORT pundit, was mocked by Leeds fans, after he described Leeds as a myth, urging pundits to ‘get out of Marcelo Bielsa’s arse’.
Leeds are a myth maybe all the pundits will get out of bielsas a…e ??
— Gabriel Agbonlahor (@officialga11) October 19, 2020
Elaborating on his rant about Leeds on talkSPORT last Tuesday, Agbonlahor had insisted praise should be directed towards Villa boss Dean Smith instead of Bielsa.
Agbonlahor said: “Everyone is getting excited about Bielsa, but if you’re getting that excited by Bielsa, you must be putting the red carpet down for Dean Smith.
“Maybe because he’s English we don’t get too excited by him, but what he’s doing, tactics-wise, at Aston Villa, he deserves a lot of credit.
“I feel like people need to calm down with Leeds United at the moment.”
As you can imagine, Leeds took great pleasure in ruining Agbonlahor’s Friday night.
They tweeted his comments alongside an image of Bamford celebrating his third goal, with the caption: “How it started… how it ended.”
How it started How it ended pic.twitter.com/tNJtt9iiFp
— Leeds United (@LUFC) October 23, 2020
Player ratings
Aston Villa: Martinez (6), Cash (6), Konsa (7), Mings (6), Targett (5), Luiz (6), McGinn (6), Trezeguet (7), Barkley (6), Grealish (7), Watkins (6).
Subs used: Traore (5).
Leeds: Meslier (6), Alioski (8), Koch (7), Ayling (8), Dallas (7), Struijk (5), Klich (7), Costa (7), Harrison (8), Rodrigo (7), Bamford (8).
Subs used: Shackleton (7), Raphinha (6), Hernandez (6).
Man of the match: Patrick Bamford.
Aston Villa manager Dean Smith said: “I’ve said to the players that I have only been disappointed with 40 minutes of football this season. I was frustrated with the second-half performance as I thought at half-time the game was pretty even, we had chances and they had chances.
“I told them I was disappointed with our reaction to their first goal as I thought it was pretty even up to then, then after that our reactions weren’t what they should be.
“Jack [Grealish] has been great this season and he had a great chance and then they went down the other end and scored.
“After that, we lost a yard and they gained a yard and looked a very good team, while we looked a poor team. We were lucky to get away with three actually the way the last 25 minutes went.
“But you have to give credit to Leeds, I thought they were excellent with their one-touch passing and they comfortably beat us in the second half.”
Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa said: “We haven’t been doing anything different with him [Bamford], he’s been doing exactly the same things and he has always been doing, the only difference is now he is converting the chances.
“Everything that Bamford gets, he gets because he deserves it. From my point of view, he is a player with a lot of qualities and creates a lot of danger. If he continues to improve his efficiency then he will receive even greater plaudits.
“I am very happy for him, he deserves it. We have made no changes, no significant changes, it is just now that he is being more efficient.”
Fans reacted as Kalvin Phillips brilliantly hits back to Gabby Agbonlahor’s tweet…
Cut your losses Gabby and move on.
Honestly, when you mess with Leeds, you mess with all of us Players, staff and fans. We’re a VERY strong community. ??
You’ll be fine and you’ll stay up… But don’t mess with Leeds ?— Ben Hope (@BenHopeAJBass) October 23, 2020
Hahaha mugged him right off love it gobby agbonlahor ??
— The Magic Mod ?✌? (@TaylorMod) October 23, 2020
Bye bye agbonlahor bielsa is just a myth what nonsense took a very poor side apart tonight you’ve got lucky vs the scouse and beat 3 bottom sides have a good kip tonight mot
— Darren Lake (@DarrenL84988777) October 23, 2020
Kalvin shag me
— Oli W▵lker (@Oli_LUFC_1919) October 23, 2020
Roll out the red carpet for Dean Smith now Gabby? He’s just been on sky sports news saying Leeds will finish 14th ??
— MK (@JanssonsMagic) October 23, 2020
@officialga11 “Leeds fans were coming for you next”
Let us know not when, but if, you get there… pic.twitter.com/KRpRAMtvVJ
— Jody Jones (@jodyjones1982) October 23, 2020
Thought Leeds deserved it,very dominant second half. (Lucky that dreadful knock Bamford took healed so quickly though !).Considering you were out AND your replacement got subbed, that was some performance from your Midfield. Great game to watch aswell.(maybe not so much 2nd Half)
— Terry (@terrytini99) October 23, 2020
We will sleep like a log now.
Nothing can spoil the weekend now.
Beilsa also out classed Smith and Terry.???— Olney Whites?? (@RichardBarnaby2) October 23, 2020
Cheers for the team talk @officialga11! Hopefully we’ve proved you wrong. All the best Villa for the rest of the season
— James Pearson (@JamesPearson25) October 23, 2020
PHILLIPS makes it 0-4 ?
— Stephen Mc Phillips (@Stephen_MOT) October 23, 2020

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