Jesse Marsch’s one brief miscalculation was the temperature. He began the match in an unfeasibly thin jumper on a deceptively cold day and froze for half an hour.
But Marsch is not misjudging the role Leeds United boldly recruited him for. To hire a manager with no Premier League experience to lead a squad so emotionally bound up with his predecessor Marcelo Bielsa, at the moment of ultimate jeopardy, was breathtaking in many ways.
Yet it has worked so far, in a way Norwich, Watford and Everton’s more conventional managerial changes have not.