I am back with my recently favorite team to bet against- Leeds United. Last weekend they were too generously priced against Tottenham and one could even get the away team on a low 0 handicap with asian bookmakers.

As most of you know, the Spurs went on to wreck Leeds with 4 unanswered goals and thus pushed Marcelo Bielsa to the exit door. “El Loco '' resigned the following day and the club board quickly assigned a successor - Jesse Marsch.

Now, in all honesty, if it was some internal crisis manager from EPL, that usually gets such “jobs” as to save a sinking ship (Leeds, in our context) - Sam Allardyce or Nigel Pearson, for example, I would have stronger doubts over the bet. But as the role is given to an American, who’s never ever worked in the Premier League and is coming from an obvious flop at RB Leipzig - I am feeling really skeptical regarding his prospects in charge. Mainly as he is thrown into the open flame, which is literally a precise depiction of Leeds at the moment. 17 (!) conceded goals in the last 4 league games, including 0-6 and 0-4 back to back defeats in last 2 rounds.

Marsch made a name for himself in the RB system with RB Salzburg and earlier New York Red Bulls. Fluid, hyper-attacking, high-pressing football were the key elements to his success at former clubs - in Germany the approach had fallen through. While the intentions were still evident, the balance between attack and defense was never found and after losing 3 games in a row in December 2021 Marsch left Leipzig.

My point is, that the 48 year old American is unfamiliar with working in circumstances as he is going to encounter at Leeds. Bielsa basically left a wrecked ship behind and Marsch is no Jesus to pull off a wonder inside only a few training sessions (officially introduced as Leeds manager on Thursday).

A short-term morale boost that could occur is the only issue here. Otherwise, I am quite certain Leicester should take advantage of their opponents’ fundamental problems and take a home win; especially after looking so well in the midweek win over in-form Burnley on the road (2-0)

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正如你们大多数人所知道的那样，热刺继续用4个未获回应的进球来摧毁利兹联，并因此将马塞洛·贝尔萨逼出了大门。“El Loco”在第二天辞职，俱乐部董事会很快指定了一个继任者——杰西·马什。

现在，说实话，如果是英超的某个内部危机经理，通常会得到这样的“工作”，以拯救沉船(在我们的背景下，利兹)——例如山姆·阿勒代斯或奈杰尔·皮尔逊，我会更怀疑这个打赌。但是这个角色是给一个美国人的，他从来没有在英超工作过，而且来自莱比锡的一个明显的失败——我真的对他的未来感到怀疑。主要是他被扔进了明火中，这是当时利兹的真实写照。在过去的4场联赛中有17个球被丢，包括在过去的2轮比赛中0-6和0-4背靠背的失败。

在萨尔茨堡和早期的纽约红牛队中，Marsch在RB体系中声名鹊起。流畅，超强进攻，高压的足球是他在前几家俱乐部成功的关键因素——在德国，这种方法失败了。尽管意图依然明显，但进攻和防守之间的平衡从未找到，在2021年12月连续输掉3场比赛后，马什离开了莱比锡。

我的观点是，这位48岁的美国人不熟悉在利兹的工作环境。贝尔萨基本上是留下了一艘失事的船，而马什也不是在几次训练中就能创造奇迹的耶稣(周四正式成为利兹的主教练)。

这里唯一的问题是可能出现的短期士气提升。否则，我很确定莱斯特应该利用对手的根本问题，在主场取得胜利;特别是在周中客场2-0战胜状态良好的伯恩利之后，他表现得非常好。