Jesse Marsch says Leeds United 'are not fully committing tactically and behaviourly to what we want to achieve' - Yorkshire Post 14/11/22
Jesse Marsch will spend Leeds United's mid-season break trying to hammer home the tactical disciplines he feels his players are not fully buying into.
By Stuart Rayner
Their final two games before the Premier League went on hold
for the World Cup were a joy for neutrals – 4-3s, one won, one lost after
comebacks – but less so for coaches like Marsch who like to have control of
games.
Leeds had it for much of Saturday's second half at Tottenham
Hotspur once Ben Davies made it 2-2. Rodrigo scored his second goal to put
Leeds ahead for a third time with 16 minutes to play but sloppy defending let
Rodrigo Bentancur score twice.
"We have to stay on top of the discipline and the
behaviours and continue to reiterate what we need so we don't do it 90 per cent
of the time, we do it 100 per cent of the time," said Marsch.
"We've got better. It's a reason why we've been able to
flip the script a little bit on our season but we just makes mistakes we
shouldn't be making.
"We're not fully committing tactically and behaviourly
to what we want to achieve.
"The game mimics the season, there's moments where we
look really good and moments where we look really vulnerable."
Bentancur’s goals came quickly after Luke Ayling came on as
a fifth defender.
"Tactically we were on top of things at 2-2," said
Marsch.
"By (switching to) 5-4-1 we can double down on the wing
and still have numbers in the box.
"We give up too many moments where we don't defend the
wing aggressively enough and give the opponent too much space, then don't
defend the box well enough."
Only having Rasmus Kristensen, Tyler Adams and Brenden
Aaronson in Qatar should make working on those aspects before the next game,
against Manchester City on December 28, easier.
