Legacies of the Marcelo Bielsa era will be around every corner for Jesse Marsch at Leeds United’s Thorp Arch training ground.
As he looked back upon Saturday’s loss to Leicester City Marsch stumbled across one of the more underrated attributes the squad had developed under Bielsa’s stewardship.
Despite losing the match, there were plenty of aspects from Saturday’s game to be impressed by given how little time had been spent on the training pitches with Marsch.
The American put a lot down to the intelligence of his roster and their ability to take in information from the video analysis he has done with them.
“What I also learned today is how intelligent they are, how they were able to take a lot of our video sessions and some of the work we've done on the pitch in segments and, after four days, put in a performance like that at a tough moment for us in the season, at a tough place to play, against a good opponent,” he said.
Marsch admitted some of the video sessions he put them through were on the long side, but found a group able to stick with such long clips after their time with Bielsa.
“If I just draw on my experiences, for four days, and they had to sit through some long video sessions,” he said.
“They said they were used to long ones already, I think Marcelo used to do a lot of very detailed video sessions.
“The video is really important and then helps them understand exactly what tactically we're trying to achieve, and then go out on the pitch and work on the timing and relationships against the ball and with the ball.
“Even set-pieces, I haven't seen every game this year, but that's probably for us a very effective and dangerous set-piece day for us, against and with.”
