Farke has to ditch 5/10 Leeds man who's 'not sharp'

Leeds United closed the hole on leaders Sunderland to simply two factors on the high of the Championship desk, following Saturday’s deserved 2-0 victory over a struggling Queen’s Park Rangers facet at Elland Highway.

It wasn’t all plain-sailing for Daniel Farke‘s males – with it taking till the ninety fifth minute for the victory to actually be sealed – but the Yorkshire facet’s high quality merely shone by in the long run, having bounced again impressively following the midweek defeat to Millwall.

Targets from Jayden Bogle and Joel Piroe proved the distinction in the long run, with the Whites heading into the worldwide break in a powerful place of their determined pursuit of computerized promotion.

With a two-week break now on the playing cards, Farke can mirror on this newest displaying, with quite a few performances – each good and unhealthy – having given the German loads of meals for thought transferring ahead.

Leeds’ finest performers vs QPR

A phrase should, in fact, be mentioned for the person who opened the scoring, with Bogle firing house off the crossbar following a chaotic, penalty field scramble after simply 19 minutes.

That early strike set the tone for who was a standout, all-round show for the previous Sheffield United man, as he offered an actual outlet in his superior, right-back berth, having additionally offered three key passes and accomplished 5 of his seven tried dribbles, whereas profitable eight floor duels besides, as per Sofascore.

Elsewhere, it proved one other high quality day within the midfield ranks for the pairing of Ao Tanaka and Joe Rothwell, with the duo each taking up 90 touches of the ball as they sought to dictate proceedings, whereas additionally having fun with a 94% and 93% move accuracy fee, respectively.

Key stats – Leeds vs QPR
Stat	Highest rating
Most touches	Struijk (109)
Highest move accuracy	Rothwell & Solomon (94%)
Most key passes	Bogle & Aaronson (3)
Floor duels gained	Bogle (8)
Aerial duels gained	Sam Area (4)
Most tackles	Jimmy Dunne (6)
Profitable dribbles	Bogle (5)
Photographs on course	Bogle (2)
Possession misplaced	Byram & Nardi (19x)
Stats by way of Sofascore

Whereas issues did not fairly click on into gear forward of these two new arrivals, the aforementioned Piroe did profit from his late cameo after producing a pleasant, poked end previous the onrushing Paul Nardi – the Dutchman taking his tally to six for the season within the second tier.

For all these positives, nevertheless, one participant who deserves to come back underneath the microscope is Manor Solomon, with the on-loan winger once more flattering to deceive down the left.

Leeds’ worst performer vs QPR

Except for a short spell at Fulham by which he as soon as scored in 5 successive video games for the Cottagers whereas on mortgage from Shakhtar Donetsk, life in English soccer hasn’t been significantly sort to the Israeli worldwide thus far.

After a season wrecked by damage at Tottenham Hotspur in 2023/24 – by which he was restricted to simply six appearances underneath Ange Postecoglou – the 25-year-old has since endured a combined starting in Yorkshire, with only one help to indicate for his efforts.

Once more, a hamstring damage earlier within the marketing campaign might have been a consider his lowly return, but as CBS’ Jake Winderman said, the diminutive expertise merely “doesn’t look sharp“, whether or not he’s carrying an damage or not.

Maybe, Farke and co might be questioning the knowledge of bringing within the winger on a brief foundation from Spurs, with it having been yet one more ineffectual attacking show, as he failed to supply a single key move, whereas additionally failing to efficiently full a single dribble.

The struggling star did get pleasure from a 94% move accuracy previous to being changed by Daniel James within the closing phases, though he additionally misplaced the ball on 9 events from his 45 touches, with Leeds Dwell’s Beren Cross – who awarded him a 5/10 match score – writing that he ‘didn’t do an enormous quantity to harm QPR’.

There was, in fact, his well-taken strike that was finally disallowed for offside, but Solomon seemingly didn’t do sufficient to warrant retaining his beginning berth forward of that man James.

In reality, his efficiency could also be considerably overshadowed by the eventual scoreline and heroics of Bogle and Piroe, however that is to not say he should not nonetheless discover himself out of the beginning lineup for the journey to Swansea Metropolis on 24 November.