‘That part hurts’ – Marsch admits Leeds are not ‘giving themselves chances’ to win games

Leeds United manager Jesse Marsch acknowledged that his players are not giving themselves a chance to win following their loss to Chelsea at Elland Road.

For the second game running, Leeds lost their cool as they played most of the game against Chelsea with ten men.

Dan James was sent off before the interval for his rash challenge on Blues midfielder Mateo Kovacic. This came after Mason Mount opening goal of the game early on.

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Second-half goals from Christian Pulisic and Romelu Lukaku sent Leeds spinning to a third straight defeat, which left them in the bottom three with two games to play.

Marsch, who saw skipper Luke Ayling sent off in similar circumstances in Sunday’s defeat at Arsenal, said: “The guys are gutted because we’re not giving ourselves the chances we want to come into the match. That part hurts.

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“In general, if you go down to the performances, it’s not that they’ve been great, but it hasn’t been horrible.

“It’s just the level of the opponents and playing with a man down for 60 minutes in two matches limits your ability to win the game.”

Leeds have two matches to salvage a wretched season – against Brighton at home on Sunday and at Brentford on the final day – and will be without Ayling and James for both.

Marsch was asked if he had seen enough quality in his team in successive defeats to Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea to suggest Leeds can still stay up.

“You’re talking