Mateusz Klich prods a throw-in from Stuart Dallas straight into touch and shouts at Dallas. Elland Road twitches as passes go astray and “mehs” fill the air as the minutes pass with Leeds 1-0 down, but the crowd are still in the murmur phrase. But even as Hwang scores, helped by a deflection and some negligent defending from Leeds United on the left, there is a tacit reluctance to turn on Marcelo Bielsa or his players. At least with whistles there is no ambiguity. A well-travelled football man who has experienced both once said murmurs are worse than whistles. In continental Europe, crowds whistle when a team are starting to fail them but in England discontent manifests itself in a shivering murmur. Every football stadium has experienced open revolt at some point and one of the stages before mutiny is always the murmur. Silence smothers Elland Road, the silence of a crowd who came here today fearing this. He gets a lucky break and it is possible that he has strayed offside but no one in the crowd is looking for a flag or asking for VAR. Ten minutes in and Hwang Hee-chan prods Wolverhampton Wanderers in front.
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