In between matches, the noise around Elland Road can be just as deafening and blinding. Manager Daniel Farke did his best on Friday to ignore the blast from the critics and lift the scales from the eyes of those who do not like what they have seen in the past two defeats away from home.<\/b><\/p>\n
“I can’t waste 1% of energy self-marketing,” he told BBC Radio Leeds before Sunday’s visit of Aston Villa<\/a> to Elland Road.<\/p>\n “If you follow our way of working over the past two and half years, you know exactly what we are doing, how we try to approach a game and try to be successful. This won’t change at all.”<\/p>\n Farke, who is on track to survive in the Premier League by his own measure of a point-per-game ratio after 11 fixtures, is full aware of the barbs aimed at his side.- whether it be from a section of the fanbase or from pundits like Gary Neville and Roy Keane tipping the Whites for relegation.<\/p>\n “The outside world will try to provoke us, tear us apart and divide us to make sure we don’t go further on united,” the German added.<\/p>\n “I have too much passion and love for this club so, in this moment, I make sure that no-one criticises my players too much. I want to be there for them like a shield.”<\/p>\n Now in what seems like a seismic moment, it is time for his charges to step forward and take the game to Villa and show, as Farke says, “they are not scared and more like we are brave and go out and press higher than we did in the last two games, and play with a bit more courage”.<\/p>\n Providing the shield is one part of the battle, but it is the sword in hand the fans want to see on Sunday.<\/p>\n Listen to West Yorkshire Sport Daily<\/a>, weeknights at 18:00, and subscribe to BBC Radio Leeds’ Don’t Go To Bed Just Yet podcast on BBC Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In between matches, the noise around Elland Road can be just as deafening and blinding. Manager Daniel Farke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-585302","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\/115589366941955209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585302","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=585302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}