Lack of width is one of the sticks Jesse Marsch has been beaten with since he arrived at Leeds United, but he insists one of the game’s most successful coaches follows the same principle. Pep Guardiola, winner of 10 European top flight titles and two Champions League crowns, is a proponent of narrow attacks, according to Marsch.
Marsch’s defence of this key pillar of his philosophy comes after a photo emerged of seven keys to the game pinned to the Leeds dressing room wall. One of the points read: “minimal width, vertical, counter-press.”
“Even one of the things that comes out was this thing that was up in our dressing room and then went out on Twitter, and some people reacted to minimum width,” said Marsch. “That's actually a Pep Guardiola principle.
