Leeds United met Manchester United like this shape when Manchester United tried to make game from behind. They were not aggressive to Manchester United’s defenders but absolutely didn’t let midfielders to take the ball.
When your opponent presses to you like that, it’s hard to be effective with passing the ball a lot because opponent’s all plan is not letting attacking team’s midfielders to take the ball from defenders. So you can’t make connection with midfielders in central areas. So your defenders had to make meaningless passes to each other.
Attacking team needs to play direct but in Leeds United’s pressing, also distances between lines is too much. And as a result of this, Leeds United’s defense line is not that much far away from their own penalty box. If you can pass the ball to defense line’s behind, there is enough space for attacking team’s forward players (so it’s not the same situation yesterday’s match West Ham United against Chelsea. By the way you can watch that match’s analysis too) but the problem is, also the distance between attacking team’s defenders and forwards is too much. So defenders can’t pass the ball to forward players with a great hitting percentage.
But also, your players can use the space between Leeds United’s midfield and defense line comfortably. Leeds United’s both defensive midfielders focus on defending Manchester United’s defensive midfielders. So actually Leeds United don’t have a midfielder who can help to defenders.
There is another thing in Leeds United’s this pressing type. This pressing type makes more transition chances for both teams. Because in the end, attacking team’s stoppers have to play direct without using centre or defensive midfielders in central areas.