Jesse Marsch hopes summer season signing Luis Sinisterra and Adam Forshaw escaped critical harm as Leeds rounded off their Australian tour in opposition to Crystal Palace.
After beating Brisbane Roar 2-1 within the Gold Coast and dropping 1-0 to Aston Villa in Brisbane, the Elland Road outfit ended their pre-season journey Down Under on the cavernous Optus Stadium.
Rodrigo’s second-half penalty put Leeds forward in a feisty pleasant in Perth, the place Jean-Philippe Mateta turned dwelling a Jordan Ayew ball on the break to safe a 1-1 attract entrance of 33,919 followers.
But, whereas the absentee-hit Eagles fly dwelling with none harm considerations, Leeds must examine on winger Sinisterra and midfielder Forshaw after their first-half withdrawals on Friday evening.
“Luis Sinisterra had a little hamstring injury,” Leeds boss Marsch stated. “We’re hopeful that it’s not too much, too long, too severe.
“Any time we have a hamstring injury I am totally dissatisfied because I think that’s reflective of everything that we do with them physically, so we’ll evaluate that and we hope that it’s not so bad.
“Adam Forshaw had Mateta kind of lean on him a little bit and tweaked his knee.
“We’re hopeful as well that that one’s not so bad, but we will get more information on it in the next days.
“I think we’ve had spirited matches in all of them here and that’s just kind of how our team plays. We only know full throttle and that’s a good thing.
“We try to bring out best every day, every game. Certainly there’s some emotion that goes on, some frustration with some calls and different things, tackles.
“The pitch wasn’t the perfect condition, but the mentality to try and get the most out of the game, to play at a high level, to play fast and a high level was really good.
“There were major stretches of the game that I thought we were quite good.”
Marsch seems to be set to be joined by a brand new assistant supervisor upon Leeds’ return to the UK, with Rene Maric – most just lately with Borussia Dortmund – prepared to affix.
“More later this week but I know who Rene Maric is,” the American stated.
Leeds wish to signal a left-back and striker within the coming weeks, whereas Palace are bringing in defender Chris Richards from Bayern Munich.
“He is going to give us different options at the back,” head coach Patrick Vieira stated. “He will give us competitiveness between players.
“I’m really pleased that an important player like that decided to come to Palace.
“I think we showed that we can attract players and when you look at the number of teams that were behind him and he decided to come to us, I think this is a really strong statement.”
Vieira has been with out quite a few first-team gamers in Australia, with Palace saying some had been unfit and others “did not meet the entry requirements for Singapore or Australia when travel arrangements were made”.
“That wasn’t easy at all,” the previous France worldwide stated. “We had to make some decisions and leave some important players behind.
“Obviously it’s not a perfect scenario as a manager, but we have to deal with it and I think we did it quite really well.
“If you’re looking at the three games that we played, I think we represent the football club really well.
“In the other side, it’s not the best preparation.
“Tactically, I think we show today that we still have a lot to cover, a lot of things that we need to improve and, compared to some other teams, we are a little bit behind, especially tactically.”
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