'I'm watching him' - Every word from Leeds United boss Jesse Marsch's pre-Bournemouth press conference

For Jesse Marsch’s pre-Bournemouth press conference today, we will bring you all the news here as we get it.

Jesse with us shortly.

“Stuart and Adam agan are injured but making progress, Archie Gray will be, we think, on the pitch tomorrow so strarting and getting closer to training with the full team and then the only other update is Luis Sinisterra. Luis Sinisterra has a foot injury that it turns out to be more than what we originally thought it was. He wasn't making the progress that we were hoping for him to make over the last 10 days and so they did another scan and then they had a specialist look at it, and they started to worry about it being a Lisfranc injury, so maybe you guys have heard of that. If you haven’t, it’s a rare injury that controls the movement of the metatarsal and when that is ruptured, it can be a long recovery. We don’t believe it’s ruptured, we believe it’s partially torn, which puts him in a little bit of a grey area, but probably out until after the World Cup break. We will know more about that today and we are hopeful that’s a version that doesn’t take him out for long.”

“I’m still kind of in the same place. It’s obviously, it was a good win. But it’s also kind of frustrating that we can perform like this in certain games and then we’ve let too many points and games slip away against other opponents. And so it’s it’s a little hard for even me to understand and appreciate that moment because I’m still thinking about the fact that we should be further up the table, further along in our process but we’re not. Obviously there’s joy that we get a result like that, but also concern in frustration that we haven’t done more in other moments. Now, this week, I think there’s been real concentration on what’s necessary for this weekend and our focus entirely is to build momentum. So in order to do that, we have to get a result and a win against Bournemouth.”

“For me, iwhether you’re young or old, it’s all about what you’re establishing and exhibiting on the training pitch. Cree, for me, it was a little unfortunate that Cree picked up the injury last year before Palace. He was starting to look really good in training then and I was thinking he could be a player that can help us push torwards the end of the season last year and unfortunately we didn’t get him going. I talked after the game against Liverpool that a big factor for him is disci[line and professionalism and work ethic. I’ve been on top of him again this week to make sure that he has a very good training week and he has. He has looked really good and we are hopeful that he can establsh himself more and more and Wily think is in the same vein expect that his professionalism and work ethic and clarity for what this world is, is incredible. He is very mature for an 18 year old and it’s interesting because Cree and Wily have sparked up a really good friendship and I think Wily has had a positive effect on Cree and I think that those two together can be part of the core of young players, or can be the core of the young players that can kind of push us forward and continue to help all the young talented specifically attacking players we have establish themsleves more and more.”

“It was a little of everything, making sure that he was getting here early enough, making sure that that he was putting work in the gym, that he was preparing for training the right way, that he was paying attention in video, that he was applying the lessons that we wanted to learn in training every day. That even then when he was playing with the 21s, typically when he was playing with the 21s he was performing well. He’s a gamer. He loves the match but it was more about like helping him understand what the entire process of being a top professional is and making sure that he’s committed to it.”

“It’s been a little bit of a different week because we sent a lot of guys to play with for the 21s in the Papa John’s tournament so even those guys have the day off today. They will come back in tomorrow. I think we have tried to find ways to look at video and look at the opponent and assess what was good and needed to be better against Liverpool and then how it applies to what we want to achieve on Saturday. It hasn’t been the same kind of week but I’m always trying to whether it’s set piece preparation or training methods or video presentations always trying to come up with new ways of doing things because players get tired of routine and so do I frankly so I that part has been important, just not but so committed to the exact same routine.”

“Bournemouth, in general, I know that they haven’t gotten a lot of results but if you look at their metrics, they’re actually improving as a team and I think they’re they’re more and more in matches. We believe that they are very lethal in counter attacking situations and so they defend very hard, they defend sometimes a little bit deeper. They sometimes like to press a little bit higher but get into a deeper block and they’re very intensive in some of those defensive moments. And they’re very quick to get into the counter and it showed in the Tottenham match and In a lot of their matches lately. I think manager’ss done a great job of taking them out of a moment early in the season where they looked like they were in trouble, to making them stronger and making them clear on exactly what their play model is. Who they play and exactly how they play, they have some variability, they played five in the back in the last game and defended five in the back, sometimes they build with five but defend more with four so we have had to prepare for a few different things. But we know that in the end we have to know them but we have to be ready to perform at our best. That’s a big focus this week, knowing the opponent but making sure that we are ready to be at our best.”

“I think he is a dangerous playe. Is he going to score every game like he has in the last two? No. But I think he can be a big part of unbalancing teams, by scoring goals, by betting goals up, by being good in transition and certianly good in pressing. It’s too bad because if we can get him, Luis, Jack, Brenden, Rodri, Patrick, Wily, Joffy then we then start to have a core of attacking players that could be really fun if we can get all those guys in top form and that’s what we are trying to achieve.”

“Yes. He wanted to go home and I said no. We actually had a Halloween party as well, it was good, with families and all the players and the first team staff after our training session on Sunday.” Who had the best outfit? “All the guys were pretty amazing. Probably Pascal Struijkm he was like a hippie so he probably had the best one.”