"Frankly totally ridiculous" - every word from Leeds United boss Jesse Marsch's pre-Leicester City press conference

This feels like a very big game for Leeds. And for Leicester. Jesse will be with us at 2.45pm. All the latest main news to follow here followed by full transcript of every word later on.

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“Adam is coming back from injury but feeling good. Stuart is still injured and Archie Gray. And then Pascal Struijk picked up a little bit of an injury and won’t be available for tomorrow. But we are hopeful that by Sunday he will be available.”

“I feel like after a match like that, they feel they deserve more. Obviously we walk away feeling gutted because we feel like we deserve more against such a good team and my nature is to be positive, to look at things carefully and be realistic, but to remain positive. Sometimes you get tested in those ways because you can’t help but feel the emotion of the letdown. But I think that that performance continues to instill belief even though it’s not result based. That’s why in order to really reinforce what’s happening within our team, I think it’s really important that we start finding ways to get more wins.”

“I think they typically follow the lead of the leader or leaders from the club and in the team. I think in that sense, I have a really good connection with with people like Andrea and Victor and Angus, and also with players like Coops and Luke. And I just try to get their feedback sometimes but also reinforce the appropriate things with the group and also with those two guys and know that they’re really important in terms of how we all react. I can say that those two men are in our group are as strong and committed as ever.”

“Yes. They are better than the last placed team in the league for sure. They’re good on the ball. They’re very dangerous in transition moments, they’ve still scored a good number of goals. And then defensively they’ve given away a little bit too much. But I think going there and knowing that they got a positive result and having two matches at home and a chance to gather momentum in their season, we’d be very foolish to not expect them to be ready for a big performance. So we’ve talked about what we want the match to look like, we’ve talked about what to expect and now we got to be able to execute that.”

“I am glad that I am not in that discussion this time. I don’t think any of us are proud when sometimes we have to be more emotional than we’d like to be and and certainly, I think we all respect referees, and we want to see them treated fairly. I think, I try to do that and I try to have dialogue. I try to support the referees when I think they’ve done a good job, even if I’m critical of them, I try to not not make an accusatory and I respect the work that they do and how important they are to the game. Of course, the decisions often dictate the fine line for a club like us of what success and failure is but we have to live with that and accept that and and focus on ourselves and I think that’s the most important thing that a manager can do.”

“Junior will start and he will be ready. I think he’s been patiently waiting and also trying to make sure that he’s sharp, fit and strong so that when he gets called upon, he’s ready to go. So I’m excited for him to have his opportunitynow and to show that he’s ready. And then yes, Willy will be with us and Joffy and Sam and ome of the guys that we have talked about that have done a little bit of double duty will be with us. We knew that we had a three game week so we have use some of those 21s matches to keep them fit and strong and sharp and now we’re going to need them in this week to be ready for us.”

“This was a dicussion during the week and a big tenant of my leadership style is ownership and wanting the players to feel ownership and wanting them to give their opinions. Obviously I have a job to do, to make decisions. But when I when I make decisions that maybe are against the way a player feels or are against him being in the lineup or if they know what the process is and they and they believe in the way that I treat them in the way that I go about making the decisions and then they can even be satisfied and commit to it even if they don’t entirely agree. So when those two come up to me at half time, Brendan came up to me first, I said go speak to Jack. Then Jack and Brendan came to me and half times are pretty quick, you don’t have all day to have discussions, but then I say okay, Jack, what do you think? How do you feel? And he said, yeah, it can be good. And Brennan’s reasoning was yeah, maybe you can be a little bit more one on one situations and I can help press in the middle and close things down and it can be beneficial for both of us in the team. And I said great, let’s do it. And I think then it was one of the things that helped in the second half for us to really start to tilt the table. I think the tempo we played in the first half challenged them. I think that change, and I think Pat coming on the pitch made a big difference in the second half.”

“I think they are dangerous. I always find that when when teams are a little desperate for points. Leicester have played better than what their record is. But it means that sometimes it can be hard to predict exactly what their lineup might be, what the tactics might be, and what the performance is so we are expecting their absolute best and we’d be foolish to think anything other than that, and when they are at their best are very good team. So, again, we thinkwe have created a match plan that addresses what we want to be on the day and what we want to look at with what they are and then, again, I want them to go out and play brave and go for it.”