'We need some help' - Jesse Marsch on Leeds United's predicament and plan for the week - YEP 17/5/22
Leeds United need help to stay up but will go to Brentford ready to help themselves, Jesse Marsch has vowed.
By Graham Smyth
The head coach says all the Whites’ energy and focus will go
into the planning and execution of ‘whatever it takes’ to get the result
needed. But it won’t be until late on Thursday night that the exact requirements
become at least a little clearer.
Leeds’ 1-1 draw with Brighton took them out of the drop
zone, a point clear of Burnley who play Aston Villa away from home on Thursday,
and a point behind Everton who take on Crystal Palace at the same time. That
point rescued late on at Elland Road on Sunday has ensured that Leeds cannot be
relegated until the final day of the season, on Sunday, although they will
still need results elsewhere to go their way
“We’re alive now regardless for the last day,” said Marsch.
“We have to fight for every point and any point gets us a
little bit closer and shifts a little bit of the momentum. We know Burnley has
a match in hand and we know Everton now has. We need some help and we need to
be ready next weekend to do whatever it takes.”
The prospect of Sunday’s Brighton game being the last time
certain players graced the Elland Road turf in Leeds colours is very real but
Marsch insists every member of the squad is concerning themselves only with the
present, rather than what the future might hold.
Their attention will be on Brentford all week, aside from a
roughly two-hour period on Thursday evening when Burnley’s trip to Villa Park
will pull focus.
“I think everybody is focused on the task at hand and doing
whatever it takes to keep us in the league,” said the American.
“They have a match in hand but, if you look at the table,
they need to get a result.
“They have two matches to get a result and then we’ll see
how Thursday goes and we will be ready on Sunday to do whatever it takes to get
a result.
“We’ll all watch that match but the message will be we have
to recover mentally and physically and we’ll put together a match plan that we
think can go down to Brentford and have success.
“We have to do everything we can and invest everything we
can in every way to make sure we’re ready for that.”
