Huge: Phil Hay drops behind-scenes Leeds update from Thorp Arch, Marsch surely buzzing - opinion

The Athletic’s Phil Hay has delivered the latest update on Leeds United’s injury situation.

With the international break having gotten underway, Jesse Marsch has the chance to pick the bones out from the club’s incredible triumph over Wolves – a game that saw them clinch all three points in the dying embers, but suffer a disastrous number of injuries.

And now, Hay has revealed what the club’s hopes are behind the scenes at Thorp Arch.

He said: “As new head coach Jesse Marsch went through them one by one post-match, he took solace from the fact that none of the individual knocks or strains appeared to be particularly severe. Regardless, Marsch always intended to give the squad a meaningful rest through the international break now underway.

“This two-week interlude has been perfectly timed after back-to-back wins and at a point in the season when so many players need some downtime. The 48 hours after Wolves were taken up with medical scans and decisions about who was fit enough to travel abroad for international duty.”

While Marsch would undoubtedly have been on cloud nine following that dramatic late victory over Wolves at Molineux, his immediate attentions and concerns would have turned towards the club’s growing injury list.

Just when the American may have thought things had beginning to turn a corner – Patrick Bamford started the game, while Kalvin Phillips and Liam Cooper found themselves on the substitutes bench – it all took a shocking decline.

Bamford limped off and left inconsolable, while the likes of Illan Meslier, Diego Llorente and Mateusz Klich were all forced off with their own problems – that’s not to mention Stuart Dallas being absolutely crunched himself but fighting through it to stay on.

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