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Leeds must ditch Robin Koch vs Spurs

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Leeds must ditch Robin Koch vs Spurs

At this time marks Leeds United’s remaining sport earlier than the World Cup break commences and the Whites have been handed a tricky draw as they journey to face Tottenham Hotspur.

Though on paper it looks like a tricky fixture, Jesse Marsch’s aspect have trigger for optimism as they’ve gained two of their final three video games together with a dramatic victory at Anfield to beat Liverpool.

Admittedly, a variety of the success had this season has been towards more durable opposition, with a win towards Chelsea additionally below their belt, and a powerful show of their slender loss to Arsenal too.

Would you drop Koch in the present day?

Nonetheless, the Yorkshire outfit nonetheless stays simply three factors from the relegation zone regardless of sitting in a seemingly comfy 12th.

In the meantime, having additionally been dumped out of the cup in midweek, Spurs have misplaced three of their final 4, with two of the defeats at house.

Regardless of overseeing a giant overhaul in the summertime, Marsch did depart sure positions reasonably naked regardless of incomes a mixed £100m price from the gross sales of Raphinha and Kalvin Phillips.

One space of concern that is still is on the coronary heart of defence, the place Robin Koch has continued to occupy regardless of his less-than-impressive performances, resulting in his omission from Germany’s World Cup squad.

If they’re to grab victory on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Marsch should absolutely drop the German, in favour of somebody who has proven type of being much less culpable for making errors.

Having featured 13 instances this season, he has been an ever-present function in a defence that has conceded 22 targets, the fifth most within the division.

Signed for £11.5m, there was a perception that the hulking defender would remodel a workforce famend for leaking targets.

Nonetheless, during the last season and a half, he has solely contributed to the issue.

Throughout their relegation-threatened marketing campaign final yr he endured a torrid run of kind which noticed him handed a 6.51 common SofaScore ranking for the season.

It has not been that a lot better this season, at simply 6.70, together with his own goal towards Leicester Metropolis a microcosm of his current showings.

Even once they had been enjoying nicely, throughout the 2020/21 season, the £46k-per-week ace drew criticism from pundit David Thompson who highlighted the “terrible game” he had.  

Having misplaced six instances while he has performed this season, maybe introducing somebody like Diego Llorente may be a greater possibility as it’s clear which are worse off when Koch options.

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