Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa has held his hands up after Garry Monk's Birmingham City side beat the Whites 2-1 at Elland Road, inflicting a first league defeat of the season on the Yorkshire giants.
Birmingham went ahead in the eighth minute at Elland Road after a Che Evans strike, driven low, which beat Leeds goalkeeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell from outside the box.
It was 2-0 to Blues just before the half hour mark as Jacques Maghoma fed Adams, who beat Leeds defender Pontus Jansson before grabbing his second of the game with a shot past Peacock-Farrell.
Leeds were out of sorts, but rallied to pull a goal back in the 85th minute through Ezgjan Alioski, who popped up with a neat left-footed finish.
Eight minutes of injury time were added on, but Leeds could not find the equaliser and slipped to a first league defeat of the season.
And after the match, Bielsa held his hands up and claimed the approach he chose at the beginning of the game, involving Liam Cooper, Pontus Jansson and Kalvin Phillips, was wrong; Phillips was replaced in the 34th minute by Stuart Dallas.
"The proposal I chose for this game at the beginning was not the right one. Phillips played in front of Jansson and Cooper", he told his post match press conference.
"The goal was to make the link from defence to attack and we couldn’t reach this goal.
"In the first 30 minutes we were not fluid to move the ball and we didn’t feel safe because we didn’t recover the ball well.
"Kalvin Phillips had to consume the consequences of a mistake he didn’t make, but one I made.
"When I did this substitution, the last hour of the game we dominated the opponent, more than dominated the opponent. We didn’t suffer any situations and we created chances to score.
"So the analysis of the performance is that it was better, but the play was not better.
"The game was very tough. It was not easy for us to move the ball.
"We made many technical mistakes and we were not fresh enough to develop our game, our style because spaces were smaller and this exhausted our offensive players", the Leeds boss added.
Bielsa feels that while Leeds could potentially have taken something from the game, he cannot be pleased with the performance on display.
"We played in a manner that could have allowed us to get another result but we can’t be satisfied how we beat the game."
