Leeds boss Jesse Marsch admitted he tried to affect the efficiency of referee Michael Salisbury along with his petulant touchline behaviour throughout the 1-0 Premier League loss at Brighton.
Marsch was proven a second-half yellow card on the Amex Stadium after slamming the ball into the turf and sarcastically applauding the rookie match official, who was taking cost of simply his fifth top-flight fixture.
The American was animated from the outset on the south coast, commonly leaving his technical space and, at occasions, angrily berating the officers, prompting a ticking-off from fourth official James Linington and complaints from the house bench.
He had no objections to finally being booked – round quarter-hour from time after Pascal Gross had claimed what proved to be Albion’s winner – however insisted he won’t ever be a supervisor who “sits there and takes it”.
Asked if the warning was merited, he replied: “Yeah, absolutely. I thought my behaviour at that point deserved the yellow card.
“But I always say, when you don’t believe that you’re getting a performance out of the referee I think you have two options: to sit there and take it or to escalate your behaviour to try to make a point to see if you can affect the way decisions are getting made.
“Sometimes it works for you, sometimes it works against you. But I’ll never be a guy that just sits there and takes it, that’s not my style.
“We had him (Salisbury) as the fourth official against Chelsea (a 3-0 win last weekend) and I like his demeanour.
“I just think he didn’t have the best performance today. I know I let him know that maybe a couple too many times.”
Leeds have been second greatest for a lot of their go to to Sussex and, having been lucky to be stage on the break, fell behind when Gross latched on to Leandro Trossard’s move to interrupt the impasse within the 66th minute.
Substitute Luis Sinisterra had earlier wasted a golden likelihood to open the scoring for the West Yorkshire membership, earlier than defender Diego Llorente went near a late leveller.
While Marsch was pissed off at the usual of officiating, he was additionally sad along with his workforce not following tactical directions, accusing gamers of “freestyling” after their unbeaten begin to the marketing campaign ended.
Asked if decision-making in key moments let down the show, he replied: “It was not just that; it was following the match plan a little bit clearer.
“We had guys kind of freestyling against the ball and with the ball and so still staying true to the principles and the tactics and the match plans, which was a talking point a lot last year, (is required).”
High-flying Brighton stretched their unbeaten top-flight streak to a club-record 9 video games with victory.
Seagulls boss Graham Potter mentioned: “We played well, so I was disappointed not to have gone in ahead at half-time but credit to the boys, they started the second half well and got the goal.
“Leeds are a good team, Jesse has done a good job and they’re hard to play against. We had to suffer a little bit but overall I think we deserved the win.”
Asked about Marsch’s touchline conduct, he replied: “I don’t pay too much attention to what happens in the opposite technical area – that’s for them to be how they think they should be and I have full respect for that.
“I have huge respect for Jesse Marsch, he’s a top coach and has had a fantastic career.”
Source: www.impartial.co.uk