00:00I don't think he's getting the credit that he deserves
00:03for the way Leeds United have started.
00:06I made a decision.
00:08Remember we talked about Bogle on right wing.
00:10I put it out as just a pre-game thought
00:12that I'd like to see Bogle on the right wing
00:15with Justin behind him.
00:17And somebody said, we'd see it
00:19if Farker had a flexible bone in his body
00:21or something like that.
00:23And my response to that was,
00:25well, have you not seen the way Leeds United
00:27are playing this season?
00:28I mean, from a very rudimentary level,
00:31they're not playing 4-2-3-1.
00:33They're not playing the same style of football
00:34that they played.
00:36They're more compact.
00:37They are, I would say, more disciplined defensively.
00:40And they're definitely taking fewer risks.
00:44He has been flexible.
00:46He's been very flexible.
00:47He's not been dogmatic.
00:49He's not stuck exactly to the blueprint
00:54and the plan that got him to the Premier League.
00:56I think he's learned from his time
00:58in the Premier League previously.
01:00And he's learned from watching
01:01how other newly promoted clubs have fared
01:04over the last couple of years.
01:05And he has set Leeds United up
01:06in a very specific way
01:08to be competitive
01:10and to stay in games
01:11and to give themselves a chance
01:12and to not be porous
01:14and to not concede loads of goals.
01:15That, to me, says that he's more flexible
01:18than I think any of us
01:19perhaps would have predicted.
01:20I'm not sure I could have seen that come in.
01:24You know, if you said to me
01:25towards the end of last season
01:26that Farker would be this pragmatic
01:28in the Premier League,
01:29I don't know that I would have believed you.
01:33Yeah, I completely agree.
01:34It's one of the points I made down,
01:36actually, was to say
01:37I think Farker deserves more credit.
01:39There was a couple of
01:40these kind of football analytics accounts
01:43that do tactical breakdowns on Twitter.
01:45And I was looking at a couple
01:47and breaking down Leeds, Eschen.
01:49And also, I think we're, you know,
01:51I want to say four
01:52for at least we're in the top five or six
01:54for expected goals conceded.
01:56And I think they've put a lot of effort
01:59in the summer into
02:00this is how we're going to play
02:01in the Premier League.
02:02This is how we're going to compete.
02:04This is who we need to recruit
02:07in order to do that.
02:08And I think they deserve a lot of credit.
02:10Look at the last two seasons
02:11what the promoted teams have done.
02:13We need to remember
02:14what we're walking into.
02:15This is not easy to be competitive.
02:18And like you said,
02:19Spurs have got a squad worth,
02:21I don't know how much,
02:22but a huge amount more than Leeds.
02:25And we were really competitive.
02:27And Spurs were celebrating at full time.
02:29Like they knew they got
02:30a valuable three points
02:31in a really, really tough
02:32competitive fixture.
02:34So I think he deserves loads of credit.
02:37I think it's unfair to call him
02:40inflexible, unflexible.
02:43Not sure what the word is.
02:44Also, I don't think bones
02:45should be flexible.
02:46That's the job of joints, isn't it?
02:47So I'd go back to the kind of biology
02:50there as well,
02:51that you don't want flexible bones.
02:54But yeah, it reminds me of
02:56every game this season
02:58where we haven't got
02:59what we've deserved.
03:00I'm starting to think that,
03:02you know, that's becoming
03:03a bit of a theme.
03:04And at some point,
03:05you need to get what you deserve
03:07in this league
03:07because otherwise
03:09it can run away very quickly.
03:12And already,
03:13I'm kind of seeing a...
03:15People are already looking
03:17at that bottom six.
03:18And I think a lot of neutrals
03:19and maybe fans,
03:21even of the clubs involved,
03:22are probably looking at it going,
03:23right, that's our kind of
03:24mini league this year.
03:25Maybe Sunderland might drop
03:27into that and make it a seven.
03:28But that kind of Brentford,
03:29West Ham, Wolves,
03:31Leeds, Burnley, Sunderland.
03:35I think that's all of them.
03:36Yeah, I think that's already
03:37looking like a mini league.
03:39I still think Leeds can be
03:40better than all those teams.
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