Leeds boss Jesse Marsch urged 'men to stand up' after Nottingham Forest loss admits Patrick Bamford
- Planet Sport writer
- 6 February 2023
Leeds United manager Jesse Marsch called on senior members of his squad to 'stand up' after the club dropped closer to the relegation zone following their 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest.
The Yorkshire outfit are above the bottom three on goal difference and face back-to-back Premier League games with high-flying Manchester United.
Leeds could've gone into those fixtures with a tad more momentum had they not been wasteful away at the City Ground.
A mixture of bad finishing and good goalkeeping from Keylor Navas meant it was another defeat for Leeds, who have not won in seven league games.
Another relegation battle is looming and striker Patrick Bamford says his side have to draw on last year's experience.
"Jesse (Marsch) just said it in there that we need men to stand up and be counted for," he said.
"Fortunately, in our dressing room, we've got a few people that have been through this before, and a few experienced players.
"So we kind of know what we need to do and we'll just drag the young players with us and hopefully we'll be fine."
On his side's missed chances, Bamford told LUTV: "It almost sums up the season a little bit. We've created a lot of chances, and if we score the first goal, then I think we'd probably go on and get a couple.
"But we know what they're like, and once they get the first goal they were very tactically sound defensively and just made it difficult.
"In the end, we didn't have the answer and we kind of tailed off a bit in the second half. Sometimes it just doesn't click and we did create a good few clear chances and one of those have to go in.
"You can have days like that, and you can have days where all of the chances go in. We've just got to try and make sure that we have more of those days than ones like today."