Jesse Marsch has been sacked as Leeds head coach after seven games without a Premier League victory.
Analysis: Harsh on Marsch
Sporting Life football editor Joe Townsend
Less than a year after Marcelo Bielsa was ejected from Elland Road after a February to forget Jesse Marsch is gone just a game into that same month and it's hard to shake the same feeling; it's harsh.
Bielsa was sacked on the back of an exceptionally tough run of games - losing to Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham - with an injury-ravaged squad and although Marsch hasn't had the same run of fixtures, the data says he's doing a pretty good job.
Leeds may be 17th and only out of the relegation zone on goal difference, but they rank 11th in the top flight according to the underlying numbers.
In the Premier League, Marsch's Leeds outperformed Bielsa's on almost every data point.
Our model currently forecasts a 16th-place finish for the Whites, should they simply continue to perform at their current rate - that's without factoring in the impact their January signings of Weston McKennie, Georginio Rutter and Max Wober should have.
Leeds looked as though they'd gone all in Marsch, finally moving on from Marcelo.
Turns out not.
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