The current Leeds United manager, Jesse Marsch, criticized the methodology used by Marcelo Bielsa in training prior to his arrival, assuring that he found players “overtrained and with incredibly high stress levels”.
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Located in sixteenth position in the Premier League, outside the relegation zone, the Leeds United has begun to experience a second wind after arriving on the bench ofJesse Marchreplacing an iconic Marcelo Bielsa. Gone is the last game directed by the ‘Loco’ -where he fell 0-4 against Tottenham- and the fear of the fans to return to the Championship. An objective of permanence that seemed impossible, but that the American is getting closer to achieving.
In this sense and after the positive results achieved since his appointment (three wins, one draw and two losses), the former technical director of RB Leipzig has raised his voice and for the first time, openly criticized his predecessor.
Through an interview with the English medium Talk SportsMarsch stated that as soon as he started working at Elland Road, he met players “overtrained and with incredibly high stress levels”.
“In the beginning, I asked them to keep calm, as we still had twelve games left, which is almost a third of the season. I told them that there was a lot left for what he plays for and many opportunities to control our destiny.revealed the 48-year-old coach, recounting his first days at the English club.
The American also stated that “as soon as I arrived I realized that they had really felt the pressure of making the fans proud and had harbored the stress on their backs. I felt that and I could see it from the beginning, it was about relieving that.”
However, the criticism towards the former strategist of the Chilean National Team was not only that, since Marsch also maintained that “The issue of injuries, for me, had a lot to do with the training methodology”.
“You could see it in their faces. It looked like, by the 15th minute, some of them were already maxed out and that shouldn’t be the point. Marcelo had a very strong style of play, man against man. And trying to get three-and-a-half-year-old players out of being instructed to do exactly that, to transition to what we’re trying to do, has been a huge challenge for players to adapt to,” he said.
It should be noted that the current coach of the ‘whites’ has managed to add ten points out of a possible 18 in his first six games in charge. A performance that has Leeds depending on itself, in the absence of six dates, in the fight to stay in the first category of English football.
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