Leeds beaten by Leicester in Marsch’s first game as boss

Marsch has been hired to save Leeds from relegation after replacing Marcelo Bielsa. But he was unable to spark an immediate improvement in Leeds’ fortunes as Harvey Barnes bagged the second-half winner in his 100th Premier League appearance

Leeds manager Jesse Marsch suffered a 0-1 defeat at Leicester in his first game in charge of the Premier League strugglers on Saturday. 

Marsch has been hired to save Leeds from relegation after replacing Marcelo Bielsa. But he was unable to spark an immediate improvement in Leeds’ fortunes as Harvey Barnes bagged the second-half winner in his 100th Premier League appearance.

Jesse Marsch

Defeat was cruel on Marsch’s side, who dominated for long periods, but Leeds have lost their last five games and sit just two points above the relegation zone. 

Marsch is just the second American to take charge of a Premier League club after Bob Bradley’s brief spell at Swansea in 2016. 

Marsch, 48, has already been derided in some quarters as Leeds’ own Ted Lasso, in reference to the hapless American appointed as manager of a fictional English team in a current television comedy show. 

Few US coaches have succeeded in Europe and Marsch acknowledged this week that the Lasso character added to the stigma as he prepared for his first taste of the Premier League. 

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