Aston Villa 2-1 Leeds United: Complete, or something

“This, for me, was our most complete performance that we’ve had since I’ve been here,” said Jesse Marsch afterwards. “The best example of the way that I believe the team can play.”

Cardiff City 2-2 Leeds United: Second chances

Leeds had 6,000 fans in Cardiff, just like the Championship days, booing them off at half-time, just like the Championship days.

What, exactly, are Leeds United trying to do right now?

Clarity is one of Marsch’s favourite words, he’s always trying to get the players to see with it, think with it. I wonder if he’s been upstairs to ask if anyone there has any to offer.

Leeds United 2-2 West Ham United: Team spirit

For half an hour Mateusz Klich was not Leeds United’s past, not a legend or a memory or a tribute t-shirt. He was one of the most important players on the pitch. Half an hour later, as a consequence of the club’s management looking for a new future too soon, he was gone.

Jesse Marsch in the arena

This is all quite enough to make one person think about how they’re choosing to live and what they value about life, long before they come sopping wet off a field to have a bunch of journalists barking at them about the stress of managing Leeds.

Newcastle United 0-0 Leeds United: The best of it

From Leeds, it’s easier to take the result than enjoy the game, but why not allow yourself to do the difficult thing this time?

Being the change

Fans are left with the same guesswork about when Radrizzani will think his limits are reached and what will happen next. In the meantime, United’s Premier League status is being left to fate, since the board wrested control of it from God.

Nepo babies come to football

Erling Haaland is a brilliant footballer with a fantastic dad. But the best thing is still that someone with his background can play on a team with Kalvin Phillips, with his.

Leeds United 1-3 Manchester City: Protagonism

Here were signs of the more careful, pragmatic Leeds that Marsch was promising. Leeds still conceded three, but this was Manchester City. The three conceded to Bournemouth and Fulham, the four to Spurs, the five at Brentford, those have been the problem.

Is Kalvin Phillips in the right place?

Maybe the right place for Kalvin was Leeds all along, because Manchester sure hasn’t looked like home from home for him so far.