Sean Dyche hails 'legend' Marcelo Bielsa
One of the reason Leeds United acted to relieve Marcelo Bielsa of his duties as manager of the club was that the team's run of one point in six games had seen Burnley reel them into within two points of the Clarets in 18th place.
Sean Dyche's side have picked up two wins and a draw in their last three games and face Leicester City on Tuesday evening in one of their games in hand over the Whites.
Dyche was asked about Bielsa's sacking in his pre-match press conference and he called the Argentine a 'legend' in response:
"It is the reality of the industry. He's a legend at Leeds.
"I also found him to be straight talking and straight minded."
However, Dyche pointed out that sackings are inevitable in football once a team finds themselves in a run of results they struggle to break out of.
"If you don't get what is deemed enough results you find yourselves in trouble."
Jesse Marsch's likely Leeds United plans reveal Raphinha revamp proposed to save Whites' season
The man tasked with replacing Bielsa in the Elland Road dugout is set to be former RB Salzburg and RB Leipzig manager, Jesse Marsch.
As explored here by Joe Donnohue, Marsch's favoured formation at Salzburg was a 4-2-2-2 formation, which saw 'narrow wingers' who were tasked more with operating in half-spaces and central areas as a pair of number tens, rather than pushing wide as traditional wingers would do.
"This means Raphinha - undoubtedly the Whites' star man this season - will see his role and potentially even his position change. Whether he slots into one of the two forward roles, or as one of the No. 10s, his days hanging wide on the right before coming inside with the ball appear to be numbered, if Marsch sticks to the principles he has upheld to now."
Marsch explains how his pressing style differs to Marcelo Bielsa's
Before he was ever linked with the Leeds job, Jesse Marsch explained how his pressing style differed to Bielsa's in a coaching seminar with Coaches Voice.
The American was detailing how his 'ball-oriented' pressing system works and he noted that it was specifically different to Bielsa's, which was 'man-oriented'.
"If you watch Marcelo Bielsa with Leeds, he is a big believer of against the ball but he does a lot of man-marking across the field," said Marsch.
"So, you could stop a game at any moment with Leeds when they're against the ball and you could almost say 'alright, every player is matched up with an opponent and they're playing 1v1'. We call our pressing ball-orientated.
"You can see right here in this space [gesturing to a paused clip] that we're five against three and we believe that when we attack and attack all the way and we commit to winning balls, that we're going to outnumber opponents in spaces on the field which is going to increase our chances of winning the ball. And then, we often leave players on the opposite side of the field open."
