Chelsea 6-3 Leeds United: Caught cold
Zetterer and Bard were all new to this, but Cole Palmer — the modern day Jon Parkin — took to the pitch with history and freedom on his side.
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Brighton 1-1 Leeds United: On the line
Scampering around, pressing, never giving up, with his black hair bouncing, Tanaka looked a lot like Brenden Aaronson out there in the most complimentary way. When on the ball he played clever incisive passes to move possession into dangerous areas, and he looked a lot like Ao Tanaka.
Transfer chills are multiplying
Leeds United, in the end, kept a grip on their own transfer window sanity. But what of the nine-figure no-brained Premier League around them?
Leeds United 1-1 Brentford: The Bees of doubt
Hopefully adapting until they got it right will help the players get it right sooner in future. But hopefully, too, the misplaced self-doubts that sent them into their first half shells will be cast aside as quickly.
And Leeds have every right to go mad
Leeds United Football Club is being talked about as a home of sound common sense. But this is still football, where common sense is still very relative.
Nottingham Forest 0-2 Leeds United: They all count
I usually just want to forget the Carabao Cup as early as possible, but this time I'm keener it should count: Dan James, James Justin, Lukas Nmecha, three goalscorers in a 2-0 win.
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Leeds United: Staching up
Stach, the hero, hadn't had a great game. Nobody had. But the cliché about a good team being one that wins without playing well can apply to players, too, and Stach got his reward for sticking to it.
14th again, but better
Back in May, we wondered what Daniel Farke's ambitious talk was all about. Now we know, and his new project begins in the same place: 14th, but better.
Leeds United 4-0 Augsburg: Through the motions
Was this ever part of the deal, as United's Welsh contingent sold Harry Wilson a bright future in Yorkshire? 'Yes, and you know how for Wales our Big Joe is always at the back? Well...'
Manchester United 1-1 Leeds United: Too friendly
The relaxed bonhomie got too much for some youngsters, who ran on for selfies with Bruno Fernandes. I hope that, since they saw him preen his penalty hilariously wide in the shoot-out, they will always look at their pictures of him with shame and remorse.