00:00I also enjoyed North Ireland's performances against Slovakia in a big win and against Farka in Stax, Germany. How we didn't get a point against them is unknown to me, but that was absolutely great.
00:19Really, really good. It made me think a lot about how teams can harness what they're good at, what they are, and who they are to make it really difficult for superior opposition.
00:34So I asked Farka about it today at the press conference about how team spirit, what can it do for Leeds United in the Premier League?
00:41Because he's absolutely massive on it. He's absolutely huge on togetherness.
00:45And so that played a big part in the recruitment this summer and the kind of players they wanted to bring in because they did not want to upset, which was a very strong dressing room culture last season.
00:58And yeah, you can kind of rely on your leaders to enforce that and to bring new players into the culture and make sure they adhere to it.
01:06But if you brought in five or six wild cards who were very difficult to predict as human beings, then I think you'd kind of be risking quite a lot.
01:18So Leeds were really quite pleased that the players they brought in, and part of it was purposeful as well, were good lads.
01:25You know, like Goodmanson seems like salt of the earth.
01:28Stax seems very down to earth other than his Instagram.
01:30Calvert-Lewin settled straight in, kind of made himself one of the group.
01:36So that does play a really big part.
01:40And the other thing that game made me think was you can make football very difficult for very, very good technical players,
01:48even if it means putting it in the air, like Leeds have been doing increasingly this season, going longer to Calvert-Lewin.
01:54It makes life very, very hard for teams that are not physically equipped to kind of play that style of football.
02:03I think it's been really effective for Leeds so far this season.
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