Daniel Farke says Leeds United will get back the six points they are owed — Yorkshire Post 6/10/25
By Stuart Rayner
Daniel Farke says Leeds United are owed around six points in
this season’s Premier League, but believes they will get them back over the
course of the campaign if they continue to play the same way.
The Whites have eight points as the division goes into the
October international break after seven matches per team.
That is good enough for a mid-table position, but 14 would
put the newly-promoted side in the Champions League positions, level with
Tottenham Hotspur, who beat them 2-1 on Saturday lunchtime.
Afterwards, Farke argued Leeds ought to have beaten Thomas
Frank's side, who became the first visiting team to take three points from
Elland Road since Burnley in mid-September 2024, 24 home games previously.
The Leeds manager also felt his side should have beaten
Bournemouth the previous week, rather than drawing 2-2, and that they ought to
have drawn with Fulham last month, rather than losing 1-0. Those three games
alone would contribute an extra six points.
He also felt his side were better than Newcastle United when
they drew 0-0 at Elland Road in August.
But Farke is confident it can turn.
"Over the mid- and long-term I'm a big believer that
it's really equal," he argued in an upbeat post-match press conference.
"I'm also pretty sure there is sometimes a game where
we (will) win a point luckily. We've not won one point so far luckily, but
we've lost not one, but I would say really at least six points a bit unluckily.
"So it's not in the short-term period, especially not
in the beginning of the season as a new promoted side, but if you deliver the
mature performances we have so far, then I'm pretty sure it will also even out
– (although) perhaps not as much in comparison to a really mature top team.
"It won't go like this, that you never win a point
luckily and you're always on the unlucky side."
Farke saw plenty of positives despite goals from Mathys Tel
and Mohammed Kudus overriding a first goal at Elland Road for Noah Okafor.
Joe Rodon hit a post for Leeds at 0-0, Dominic Calvert-Lewin
failed to score good chances either side of playing an important part in
Okafor's equaliser, and Sean Longstaff's long-range shots failed to hit the
target.
"Apart from this (result), I have to say just many
compliments, nearly congratulations to the lads for this performance," he
told the media afterwards.
"After this game I would be normally disappointed even
with a draw, not even to speak about a loss.
"We were the better side in all aspects. We had more
possession, we had more passes, we had more expected goals, we had more shots,
we had more shots on target, we had more big chances created, we had more big
chances missed, we had more corners.
"In each of the aspects, we were the better side, but
football is decided by goals.
"We missed too many of the good chances in the first
half and the second half and we allowed ourselves in each half one clumsy loss
of the ball (the first leading to Tel’s goal, the second Kudus’).
