Moving on from Marcelo: how Jesse Marsch got Leeds rocking again
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Leeds correspondent Phil Hay and tactics writer Ahmed Walid for an in-depth look at how Jesse Marsch's has put his stamp on things at Elland Road, and how that has helped the club and its fans to move on from the Marcelo Bielsa era.
We look at his soft approach off the pitch, his aggressive tactics on the pitch, his renewed focus on set-pieces and the abandonment of the high-risk man-to-man system used by Bielsa.
There's also a look at how the new signings like Brenden Aaronson and Tyler Adams are the perfect fits for Marsch's system and how he's reinvigorated the likes of the Premier League's leading goalscorer Rodrigo.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.9 | Jesse Marsh has got Ellen Road rocking again. |
| 0:06.6 | Our Leeds United over Bielsa. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Party. |
| 0:16.4 | I think that our way of playing dictated the match almost entirely, limited them, created |
| 0:22.1 | chances, made them make mistakes, we wanted to make them uncomfortable, we wanted to be |
| 0:26.9 | aggressive but intelligent. |
| 0:28.3 | A key thing for Marsh is once they win the ball, he wants to have a shot within 10 seconds. |
| 0:34.4 | I think it does allow people to look forward, and I have to be honest, I think the club, |
| 0:38.1 | and maybe without knowing at the fan base as well, I've been needing that for a while now. |
| 0:45.4 | So we're three games into the season, and Leeds are third and unbeaten. |
| 0:50.7 | They saw off Chelsea in thrilling fashion on Sunday, and it felt like a big moment for the club, and perhaps on Sunday and it felt like a big moment for the |
| 0:55.2 | club and perhaps more importantly it felt like a huge moment for Jesse Marsh. So joining us now, |
| 1:00.4 | a smiling Leeds correspondent. Honestly, you're making me laugh already because you just can't |
| 1:06.5 | stop smiling, Phil Hay. We had so many months like this under Bielsa, but it smiles every week. And I think that was the thing about the sharp gear change last season, was nobody could quite adapt to the feeling of being so vulnerable and so at risk. But you're right. I mean, the football was... Hang on, Phil, Phil, hang on. I know you're so keen to just absolutely just talk nonstop |
| 1:28.3 | for 20 minutes |
| 1:29.0 | about how great leaders but I just have to introduce our other guest on the pod which is Ahmed Waleed who is part of our growing army of tactic writers. Good luck getting a worded edgeways with Phil, Ahmed, over the next half hour. He should go first Amid really, shouldn't he? |
| 1:26.8 | Welcome to the pod, |
| 1:27.9 | Ahmed. |
| 1:28.1 | I'll go back to Phil, because I want to hear this first answer, and then we'll look at the tactics. Go on, Phil. I was going to say, you know, technically and tactically, it was really impressive on Sunday bothering on brilliant. And actually, a lot of the people you spoke to coming out of the ground said that they probably |
| 2:02.2 | hadn't seen a better performance since Leeds have been promoted. |
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