From Stockholm to Dublin, Leeds United fans have been following the club in their numbers this pre-season, with over 130,000 in attendance across three games.<\/p>\n
The Whites\u2019 summer kicked off in style with a trip to Sweden, as Daniel Farke’s side faced Premier League rivals Man Utd at Stockholm’s Strawberry Arena, in front of a crowd of 45,345<\/b>, including Hollywood star Will Ferrell.<\/p>\n
Drowning out the opposition supporters throughout the 90 minutes, Leeds fans watched on as the two sides played out a 0-0 draw in the Swedish capital, with new signings Lukas Nmecha, Jaka Bijol, Sebastiaan Bornauw, Gabriel Gudmundsson and Sean Longstaff on display for the first time.<\/p>\n
Back on home turf after a training camp in Germany, Leeds hosted Spanish Champions League side Villarreal at Elland Road, with 35,273<\/b> turning out to watch the Whites go toe-to-toe in a lively 1\u20131 draw.<\/p>\n
Joel Piroe notched his fourth goal in three games for the Whites, whilst Leeds’ summer signings got their first taste of playing in front of an Elland Road crowd, against a side featuring Spanish internationals Yeremy Pino and Gerard Moreno.<\/p>\n
The final stop on the pre-season tour saw the club’s fans take over Dublin for the weekend, as the Whites took on Serie A giants AC Milan at the Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n
Selling out the 51,711<\/b>-capacity stadium \u2013 with over 98% of those in attendance being Leeds fans \u2013 the atmosphere in the Irish capital was electric, as the two sides battled to a 1-1 draw, with supporters treated to a superb Anton Stach free-kick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Stockholm to Dublin, Leeds United fans have been following the club in their numbers this pre-season, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115012172829911995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}