Overnight fixes do not exist in football, but Jesse Marsch’s evolution of Leeds United’s style is slowly, but surely, weaving its way through Thorp Arch after a whirlwind few weeks. Andrew Taylor leads the under-23s into their biggest game since the American took over tonight and he is finally seeing that brand of football rub off on the development side.
The former Middlesbrough full-back was in the eye of the storm when Marsch arrived as he was thrust from his all the more sedate loans manager role into frontline coaching. Mark Jackson was taken from the under-23s and brought into the first-team staff, so Leeds needed a safe pair of hands to take care of the younger group.
Taylor, assisted by Michal Pujdak and Alessandro Barcherini, has had to quickly assimilate Marsch’s ideas and see them implemented with the club's next generation, some of whom are required to play for the first team right now, let alone the future.
