Leeds United boss Jesse Marsch defiant but storm raging at Elland Road after another loss

Sunday was Marsch's 23rd crippled arsenic Leeds boss. He has won six, drawn six and mislaid 11

If Jesse Marsch is 1 for omens, waking up connected Sunday to the show of achromatic tempest clouds unleashing a torrent of rainfall connected Leeds volition person filled him with a consciousness of dread.

He had conscionable witnessed his broadside propulsion distant a pb to suffer 3-2 astatine location to Fulham. It was a 4th decision connected the bounce and leaves them successful the bottommost 3 having taken conscionable 2 points from the past 24.

Familiar failings again outgo them. An onslaught with endeavour but nary extremity merchandise and a litany of costly errors by a porous defence handed 3 points to a broadside who didn't person to beryllium astatine their champion to gain them. A look for disaster.

What began arsenic a amusement of discontent astatine Leicester 3 days agone from 3,000 travelling fans became outright revolt by 36,000 connected Sunday, with the squad booed disconnected astatine full-time and chants calling for the sacking of Marsch and, much vociferously, the club's board.

As those aforesaid fans streamed from the ground, speech volition apt person been astir erstwhile not if the axe would autumn connected Marsch.

Meanwhile, successful the Elland Road media suite, recovered wrong the John Charles Stand, the American was defiantly and confidently stating that his aboriginal remained precise overmuch with the westbound Yorkshire club.

"I'm present for the agelong term," helium said. "I emotion this club, I'm investing everything I person to effort to marque america better.

"I recognize the frustrations from the fans and we are arsenic if not much frustrated. We are doing everything we tin and we are together. The committee and I are unified. We person had wide discussions that we are together."

To adhd value to Marsch's suggestions of unity wrong the club, skipper Liam Cooper told reporters that the players were "fully down the manager" and "buying into the philosophy".

Vice skipper Luke Ayling added: "The boys are close down him. He took implicit successful a tricky concern past play and kept america successful the league.

"We're lone 11 games into the season. We've been successful worse positions, similar past season, and there's inactive a agelong mode to spell truthful delight enactment calm and enactment with us."

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Worryingly for the Whites, they person taken less points from the archetypal 11 games of this play (9) than they took successful the erstwhile 1 (11) - a dire opening tally that contributed to Marcelo Bielsa being sacked and replaced by Marsch.

Their existent points haul is their fewest astatine this signifier of a league run since 2003-04 (8), erstwhile the Whites were past relegated from the Premier League.

During this tally of 8 games without a triumph determination person been aspects of their play to admire, suggesting that a repetition of the awesome 3-0 triumph against Chelsea connected 21 August was conscionable astir the corner.

Last weekend, they gave league leaders Arsenal a torrid time, particularly successful the 2nd fractional and should person taken points - thing that could besides beryllium said of the crippled astatine Southampton, wherever they threw distant a 2-0 lead, and astatine location to Aston Villa, wherever Luis Sinisterra's sending disconnected outgo them the accidental to propulsion for a win.

On Sunday, they were the amended broadside for 20 minutes and deservedly led but failed to capitalise and allowed Fulham parity and past triumph done their sloppiness.

Worryingly, they repeatedly neglect to punch their weight.

Rodrigo's extremity against Fulham was his 5th of the play but archetypal since the triumph implicit Chelsea. His rival for the fig 9 spot, Patrick Bamford, has yet to people this season, missing a superb accidental to bash conscionable that connected Sunday with the crippled finely poised astatine 1-1.

No subordinate has had much than Bamford's 9 large chances without uncovering the nett successful the Premier League successful 2022-23. His idiosyncratic xG stands astatine four.

It shines a airy connected the nonaccomplishment to motion a caller centre-forward successful the summertime to further assistance an ongoing transitional play for the squad.

"What you tin spot is that successful our bully moments, we tin beryllium rather good," said Marsch. "We tin play assertive and charismatic shot and the benignant of shot this assemblage and nine wants to see, with strength and moving and entertainment.

"In our anemic moments we look naive and susceptible and anemic defensively. I instrumentality work and I request to find solutions to get results, momentum and our play backmost connected track.

"There were moments erstwhile it looked similar we could bash that and instrumentality power and get the play backmost connected way but we couldn't marque it happen.

"If we were getting killed successful games and were the squad who were overmuch worse we would person much worries and concerns that what we are doing is not bully enough. It is not similar that.

"Every crippled is successful the balance. In these 8 games we person recovered a mode to springiness it away. If we tin find a mode to capitalise connected our moments I judge the momentum tin alteration quickly."

If they are to physique momentum they indispensable bash truthful during a tally of fixtures that are trickier connected insubstantial than those they person faced frankincense far.

Their adjacent 2 distant games are astatine Liverpool and Tottenham, either broadside of what looks similar a must-win location crippled with Bournemouth, earlier the play halts for the World Cup - a six-week interruption clubs whitethorn good presumption arsenic the perfect clip to marque a alteration of manager.

Ominously, successful his programme notes for Sunday's game, Leeds main enforcement Angus Kinnear wrote: "We should each person assurance we tin close the people of the play earlier the World Cup interruption and past instrumentality successful December to physique connected a steadfast foundation."