here<\/a>, if you so wish.<\/p>\nOpta might dig out the data to back up your hunch, but you can look at the fixtures yourself and see it\u2019s pretty clear what\u2019s gone before and what\u2019s to come for Farke\u2019s side. They have only faced three teams in the current top 10 (Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Bournemouth).<\/p>\n
The other seven will all meet Leeds across the next nine games, with champions Liverpool to come twice in that period. It\u2019s daunting, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s hard to mollify anyone with fears about the recent trajectory of the team.<\/p>\n
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This is where dropped points start to bite for Leeds. While the late own goal against Fulham and the late equaliser against Bournemouth, in isolation, can be seen as not too damaging, those three points would have provided some flexibility by that point-per-game metric over the tougher run.<\/p>\n
The question now is whether Leeds can win some of their upcoming games as the underdogs. Farke was asked about the coming fixtures in his pre-Forest press conference last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know we face Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool within seven days, but I don\u2019t judge,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t we win some points there?<\/p>\n
\u201c(We had) more or less the same scenario, when we played Newcastle (United), Champions League side, new signings. They had just signed my German fella, Nick Woltemade, for I\u2019m not sure how much money.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone said, \u2018They will outclass you, (you have) no chance\u2019. We won one point, and we were even closer to winning this game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also got the feeling against Tottenham, home game, also normally in a good position, fighting for the Champions League. No one expected us, but we dominated many periods of this game and should have won some points.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t see why this should not happen against Liverpool, or against Man City, or against Chelsea or teams of this calibre.\u201d<\/p>\n
The subsequent performance at the City Ground, of course, did little to inspire fans that Leeds can overcome the odds like this. The Aston Villa match on the other side of the international break, within the comforting confines of Elland Road, seems pivotal.<\/p>\n
Unai Emery\u2019s team started the season poorly with no wins and only one goal in five matches. However, their tails are up again. They have risen to sixth with five wins from six, including outstanding home wins over Manchester City and Bournemouth.<\/p>\n
As challenging as that game is going to be, even at home, for Farke\u2019s side, you sense they need to win it. Farke says that, inside the dressing room, they are not panicking, but outside the club is where the win is really needed.<\/p>\n
Confidence and belief are hanging by a few threads in some corners of the ground, and they need reasons to believe that triple-header at the end of the month will not result in three pummelings. And if they cannot achieve that, then at least a mathematical buffer for the limited points which may come would be valuable.<\/p>\n
Yes, United\u2019s points average is where it needs to be right now, but if the club is at par for the more appealing holes they\u2019ve already completed, they need to up their game significantly to avoid the bunkers and bogeys ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United\u2019s results are not comfortable viewing for their supporters. Three wins across 11 matches, before applying any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,2922,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-567055","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-leeds-united","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115540986134072196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567055","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=567055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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