The Jesse Marsch era will get underway at Leeds on Saturday as the Whites face Leicester City.
Leicester actually did Leeds a real favour in midweek as they beat Burnley, but the Foxes won’t be looking to help the Yorkshire outfit here.
Of course, the headline going into this match is that this will be the first game of the post-Marcelo Bielsa era at Leeds, and it’s fair to say there will be changes.
With that in mind, we’ve had a go at predicting Marsch’s first Leeds XI.
We think that Marsch will revert to his favoured 4-2-2-2 formation.
Illan Meslier starts in goal, while a back four of Luke Ayling, Junior Firpo, Pascal Struijk and Robin Koch are trusted to start at the back.
Stuart Dallas and Adam Forshaw start in the midfield, and they’re flanked by Dan James and Raphinha as Marsch loves to use wingers who will cut inside onto their stronger foot.
Interestingly, due to Leeds’ lack of depth up top. We think Joe Gelhardt could be handed a start up front next to Rodrigo here.
Marsch spoke highly of Gelhardt in his first press conference, so don’t be shocked if the American gives him a chance from the off here.
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