Leeds United exit Carabao Cup on penalties but positives to take says Farke

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Daniel Wales reports on Leeds United being knocked out of the Carabao Cup on penalties away against Sheffield Wednesday.

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00:00Leeds United were dumped out of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday evening away at Hillsborough

00:05against Sheffield United. The game had ended in a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes, meaning that

00:10the game went straight to penalties. And Sheffield Wednesday won 3-0 on penalties, Leeds missing

00:16all of theirs, including from new signing Dominic Calvert-Lewin, forward signed just

00:22from Everton. So disappointing for Leeds United on the evening, losing at Hillsborough and

00:28also going out of the Carabao Cup at such an early stage of the competition. And of course,

00:34cup runs are not to be sniffed at because it's a chance for silverware. But at the end of

00:39the day, will Daniel Farker be too upset? Well, that's for him to say. But of course, let's

00:45be honest, Leeds' priority this season will be Premier League survival. Also, Farker got

00:51to bed in some of his new signings that have come in this summer who haven't had too many

00:55minutes so far in the Premier League. But let's hear from Farker himself now to hear

00:59exactly what he had to say following the loss on penalties against the Owls at Hillsborough

01:05and whether he was indeed disappointed, but whether there were any positives to take.

01:10Yes, of course. We were the favourite today. And if you then lose the game as a favourite,

01:16there's nothing positive to find about this. Yes, we were all involved in this type of football

01:22games where one team is playing, could speak about all this stuff, whatever, 80% possession,

01:2724 shots. They had nothing in the expected goals and we had more or less expected goals

01:33for four, five, six goals. If you have this type of game when out of whatever, 20 corner kicks

01:40and wide arrow free kicks, you don't score. If you miss chances out of four, five yards.

01:45Yes. And then it's always written as such. The opponent is one time in your box and score

01:48out of a situation. There's not even a chance, more or less. I think it would probably go down

01:53as your own goal or half own goal, whatever. Yes, then it can happen that you lose such a game

02:00because football game is not decided by any statistics or by the look who was the more

02:05active team or whatever, just decided by goals. And the fact was after 90 minutes and they have

02:11shot one goal, managed to score one goal. We have just scored one goal out of our many chances.

02:15Yes. And it sums also up that our best penalty takers were not able to score one goal.

02:20And Joel Pirou, I've never seen him miss the penalty. He missed today. Then our two more

02:25most experienced guys with Dominic and Sean missed as well. Thumbs up our night today.

02:30I mean, I'm guessing the worry for you is that you put out a strong side, much change,

02:34but a strong side and you were playing against a very, very young team that Sheffield Wednesday

02:38field did. Is that a concern?

02:40No, but that's also a bit the headline they make out of this. They are all professional football

02:43players there. Of course, they rested and perhaps a 36 year old player like Barry Bannon, for example,

02:51because he's just played off for three days ago. We have also rested a few players who are not in

02:56the squad today or just stayed on the on the bench. If you then change nine time, you're

03:02so Joel also in a different position, 10 time, more or less your starting lineup. It's never great for

03:08being fluent. And, you know, I could feel this in the first half. We were a bit too static in the first half.

03:12But after that, in the second half, we played exactly how I wanted to play. The only thing is

03:16more or less like that we didn't didn't score the goals. And it's still a competitive side,

03:20like I mentioned before. So it's it's a side who in a difficult situation for the club sticks together.

03:25This is why they came from two now losing position in the last league game or so back and nearly turned

03:31the game went away with a with a point. It's a championship side and we don't have to

03:37get arrogant or whatever. We have played against some competitive last season. It's not like we

03:41are since 20 years in the Premier League. So if you travel to a way ground in the championship as

03:46the newly promoted Premier League side, you can't take it for granted that you win the game. Of course,

03:51we wanted to win this game. Of course, we accept also that we were the favorite and that we are also

03:57self-critical and have to be self-critical at the moment. But it's not like analyzing. We have not

04:02played against a youth team today. We have played against a spirited fighting team who somehow managed

04:08after 90 minutes to not get beaten and by the better side in the penalty shootout.

04:12So is it the approach to the players? Is that why that happened? Or are there other reasons for it?

04:19No, it's nothing to do with mentality or character because we tried everything. So of course,

04:24it's more or less like in a normal game. Let's say, for example, Dominic had, I think,

04:28in the second half, three great chances. I would say two of them normally put straight away to bed

04:34when he's back to full fitness. But yeah, he's more or less like he desperately needs this minutes to

04:38build up his fitness or players like Sebastian Bono was more or less injured during the whole preseason.

04:43He needs this minute today.

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