Marsch's subtle Bamford ploy, touchline note and Leeds United moments missed

Eagle-eyed fans will have already seen how much time Mateusz Klich and Jan Bednarek spent together this summer. The Poland team-mates were spotted sharing a few moments together on the pitch after their arrival this afternoon.

Like a great many of the employees in Southampton’s backroom staff, there are ties with Jesse Marsch’s staff. There is the obviously shared history between Ralph Hasenhuttl and Marsch, but Andrew Sparkes is a slightly more under-the-radar option.

The Saints goalkeeping coach had the best part of a year as Red Bull Salzburg’s under-18 goalkeeping coach in 2011 before going on to New York Red Bulls. Sparkes spent seven years as the under-23 goalkeeping chief there, ironically before Marsch even arrived in 2015.

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While he never worked with Marsch there is clearly a lot of the Red Bull DNA in Sparkes’s coaching and he was spotted chatting with Marcos Abad, a new adopter of the Red Bull approach, pre-match.

Ewan Sharp and Cameron Toshack were surprise visitors to the press box on Saturday afternoon. Better known as coaches rather than in-game analysts, the pair usually watch games from the dugout alongside Marsch, Rene Maric and Mark Jackson.

However, they took seats alongside the media throughout the match to get some important shade and a different vantage point on matters. Sharp worked on a laptop while Toshack watched the game.

Leeds knew their first substitute was coming. Daniel James was being prepared for several minutes before the board finally went up with his number.

It was not clear to those of us in the stands who would be coming off. There was no sign of a limp or issue on the field from any of the Leeds