What went wrong for Jesse Marsch at RB Leipzig and is he a good fit to replace Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds?

Work smarter not harder. That is the takeaway from an interview that American manager Jesse Marsch conducted with the Athletic in January, a month or so after his firing from Bundesliga side RB Leipzig. Ad/> It’s an interview most Leeds United fans have probably poured over, given that Marsch is now the favourite to replace Marcelo Bielsa, who left on Sunday with the Yorkshire club 16th in the Premier League, just two points above the drop zone.

FootballFIFA falls short on weekend football shows its support – The Warm-Up11 HOURS AGO Like the hiring of Bielsa in the first place, going for Marsch is certainly a gamble, an outside-of-the-box appointment. With the help of Robert Bauer from Eurosport Germany we take a look at what it might mean and, first of all what went wrong with RB Leipzig. So what did happen there? The real issue with Marsch and Leipzig is really as simple as 'right manager wrong time'.

Anyone replacing a manager as talented as Julian Nagelsmann was going to struggle and with no real leadership structure at Leipzig it was quickly clear that Marsch was a not fit with a playing squad that had moved away from press and more into possession. “As Nagelsmann's successor, Marsch wanted to play switchover football with counter-pressing again,” explains Bauer. /> “Pressing and counter-pressing didn't always work, and counterattacks were often not secured.