Leeds United are sixth in the Championship table after beating Cardiff 2-0 on Saturday.
BBC Radio Leeds' Don't Go To Bed Just Yet podcast looks back at that victory and also discusses why some of the fanbase are still divided over recent performances.
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A new episode of My Mate's A Footballer has landed.
This week Patrick Bamford talks about media training for players and how individuals are selected to speak to the press after a difficult defeat.
Adam Pope
BBC Radio Leeds reporter
Leeds United travel to bottom side Cardiff City on Saturday for a rare 15:00 BST kick-off.
It will be the Whites' first chance to recover after the first league defeat of the season last weekend against Burnley where manager Daniel Farke felt his side had performed well.
He has been speaking ahead of the trip to South Wales where he will still be without Wales international Dan James:
Winger Manor Solomon is the major injury doubt with a back problem. Defender Joe Rodon has missed two training sessions due to a glute issue and Junior Firpo has been struggling with a ligament problem while Joe Rothwell has rolled his ankle. However, Farke expects the trio and striker Patrick Bamford to be available and centre-back Max Wober is training again.
On whether he feels additional tension at this current time: "No. I don't feel pressure in these terms because I have followed this club for three decades and always had a soft spot for Leeds. I know more about this club and fell in love with it. After one bad result, everyone panics. It's not a bad thing - just everyone cares so much and is passionate about this club."
He is not pandering to calls for a more adventurous midfield: "The balance has to be right. In football, it's important to be rock solid and at the other end, create chances. If I judge our first five games from balance, it was quite good. We tried to be more offensive in the cup and it did not work out. When I judge the past four games, we have conceded one goal after a slip from Manor.
He pays little attention to suggestions Leeds should win because Cardiff are struggling: "I’d rather play against a team that’s won the game before. After a loss, when you have a normal week, everyone turns every stone searching for solutions. I’m pretty sure this has happened at Cardiff."
Similarly, he feels the Bluebirds squad is equipped to turn their situation around: "Cardiff has a really good group. I look at their teamsheet: Callum Robinson, Yakou Meite, so many experienced players in the centre of the park... I think they have a team to finish in the top half. They have all the ingredients. "
If anything, Farke believes Leeds need to even more focused if they are to be successful: "We have to be more aware. I’m fully aware of the quality of the players. We have to be even more switched on."
Listen to build-up and full-match commentary on Cardiff v Leeds from 14:00 BST on Saturday on BBC Radio Leeds FM with Louis Reynolds, Adam Pope and former Whites defender Jon Newsome.
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Adam Pope
BBC Radio Leeds reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesSteve Staunton once scoffed at suggestions that promotion-chasing Leeds United were under pressure by quipping: "Pressure is for tyres."
When Staunton said that 16 years ago, as assistant manager he had helped oversee a six-match unbeaten run in league and cup to climb to fourth place in League One. Having been beaten in the play-off final the year before, fan expectations were high.
Different division, different era but 2024 has a feel of 2008 about it. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
"If there is pressure at Leeds, it is a lovely pressure to have", added Staunton. "I would rather be where we are than at a club which has no money, no support and is just hoping to stay in the division."
If some Leeds United supporters are applying disproportionate pressure to manager Daniel Farke after a first league defeat of the campaign, despite dominating rivals Burnley, then it comes with the territory I guess - whether it is lovely or not.
If anyone has a barometer near the dugouts at Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday, I would be interested to know the collective force being applied to both Farke and counterpart Erol Bulut. Like all Whites managers before him since the club's golden era, Farke has to work constantly in an overtly stressful environment. But Bulut's position is parlous.
The Bluebirds have not won a league game and prop up the Championship with a single point. Bulut may run out of road before the pressure is relieved for him but I seem to recall Southampton's Russell Martin was in a similar position a year ago.
Tread carefully.
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Adonis Storr
Fan writer
Image source, Getty ImagesLeeds United CEO Angus Kinnear spoke out last week against a “hugely aggressive recruitment drive” which has seen the two Manchester clubs poaching Yorkshire children for their football academies.
“We think there's 39 players playing in the Manchester United academy or the Manchester City academy who live in Yorkshire postcodes,” said Kinnear.
“So you have this hugely aggressive recruitment drive from two of the biggest clubs in world football right into our heartland where we've developed so much great talent over the years”.
Manchester City paid Leeds what the Whites believe to be a British record for a 15-year-old last November when they bought Finlay Gorman. While Manchester United recruited Jack Maguire from Halifax for their 'pre-academy' at the age of six and two-years-ago he signed his first contract at eight.
Premier League clubs signing children is not new.
Between losing players to comply with FFP regulations and losing players before they're even able to sign a professional contract, the fairytale of the homegrown player is fading. There are surely also concerns about children's welfare, and this is something that you would imagine an independent football regulator would review.
For Leeds United, the loss of so much talent from Yorkshire – while controversial in numerous ways – has definitely not helped the club. Kinnear's solution for the Whites in the short-term sounds simple enough: “The only way to fix it is to get back in the Premier League”.
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Image source, Getty ImagesBBC Radio Leeds reporter Adam Pope says there should not be a "meltdown" after Leeds United fell to their first Championship defeat of the season against Burnley, but Kaiser Chiefs bassist Simon Rix believes Daniel Farke's side should have been awarded a penalty during the game.
Pope spoke about the overall performance on the latest Don't Go To Bed Just Yet podcast: "It wasn't great. However, I don't think a meltdown is deserved in proportion to the performance, which people are going to hate to hear.
"But most things were actually right with the performance, and things could have changed on the penalty [decision] or from missed chances."
Rix replied: "The worst thing was I was looking at it [the performance] thinking 'this is OK' - other than not scoring, the referee and other bits and pieces. We had shots, we were creating chances and we got loads of the ball.
"The midfielders had a couple of shots, especially [Ethan] Ampadu and Ilia Gruev, but they weren't hitting the target. So then you're thinking 'OK we're trying harder to score from midfield but, if they aren't going to score, then there's no point in trying'.
"Part of my frustration was the fact that I said at half-time we would score. We did look like we should and we had enough chances.
"I also think the penalty [shout] was probably a penalty. I think if you forensically researched it, you would think maybe it's not a penalty but, at that point in the game, I just cannot understand why the referee didn't give it."
Pope added his thoughts on the penalty appeal: "In real time, that looked a penalty all day long. He was taken down from behind and that is how it looked.
"The referee was quite close to it in his position, as I recall it, so I don't know how he has made that decision. I really don't know how he has come to that conclusion."
Is Leeds United boss Daniel Farke "tactically inept"?
In the latest episode of the BBC Radio Leeds Podcast Don't Go To Bed Just Yet, Jonny Buchan, Adam Pope and Kaiser Chiefs' bassist Simon Rix discuss that all-important question following the defeat to Burnley.
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