Leeds United were mightily impressive against Aston Villa on Friday night.

The Whites’ demolished the Villans in brilliant fashion, putting three second-half goals past them on their way to taking all the points back to Elland Road.

It would be easy to make the argument that the team that started the second-half against Villa should start against Leicester, but the side we saw against Villa wasn’t your archetypal Bielsa outfit.

Indeed, Pascal Struijk’s early substitution led to something of a reshuffle in the middle of the park as Mateusz Klich was asked to play a deeper role while Jamie Shackleton fulfilled his duties as more of a number eight.

This worked against Villa, but you can’t help but feel that it goes against Bielsa’s favoured system that has seen Klich start in his preferred role in almost every league game the Argentine has managed since joining the club, and as we all know, having an anchorman as the lynchpin in his 4-1-4-1 is key to any success the team has, hence why Kalvin Phillips is so important.

Unfortunately, Bielsa’s best bet may be to drop Shackleton back to the bench, move Klich back into his preferred role and then swap Robin Koch and Struijk to get the more experienced German into the role that Struijk was clearly uncomfortable with.

It’ll be a shame to see it really, Darren Bent labelled Shackleton’s showing as ‘superb’ on Friday, but Bielsa is so set in how he likes to set his team up, it’s hard to see him playing both the 21-year-old and the Polish international at the same time unless it’s an emergency measure.

The youngster shouldn’t be disheartened by this, he clearly has a great future at the club, having been identified as a ‘fantastic player’ by Noel Whelan over the summer, and his performance against Villa showed exactly what he can do, but for now, he may have to be patient and bide his time.