Leeds United are still entirely behind manager Jesse Marsch to navigate them away from their precarious Premier League position, according to club journalist Phil Hay. The Elland Road club ended a woeful run of results with a shock 2-1 win against Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.
An eight-match winless streak, including six defeats, before the memorable night on Merseyside condemned Marsch to severe pressure as relegation fears heightened. But while pressure on the American coach was apparently at an all-time high from the outside, internally, Leeds were far more relaxed.
Hay has confirmed the word he received before Leeds’ trip to Liverpool was that the club fully intend to keep faith in Marsch to turn around their fortunes. However, he claimed there was a sense that something had to give over the next few weeks before questions were raised.
On The Phil Hay Show, he said: “The club have said, ‘he is our man, we are sticking with him, we are standing by him’. [But] it still felt as if there was going to have to be something in this two-to-three-week period. Particularly in the league games between Liverpool, Bournemouth and Tottenham, it felt as if something had to materialise.”
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Hay added that among everyone covering Leeds, all focus was on the six-pointer against AFC Bournemouth at Elland Road on Saturday, almost conceding defeat to Liverpool and Tottenham. He admitted the Premier League table would have looked ‘desperate’ for the Whites had they failed to deliver in all three, but felt everything ‘fell into place’ at Anfield.
“Something had to come back in terms of points. Otherwise, the league table was going to look pretty desperate,” Hay continued. “All of us [covering Leeds] had eyes on Bournemouth at Elland Road as opposed to Liverpool at Anfield, but everything fell into place on the night.”
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