This match mattered for the visitors, who helped haul it back towards being an occasion. The game became a determined and in the end hilarious contest, Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club will qualify for the Champions League versus No They Won't.
Farke said, "We don’t have to over-analyse the game," and I hope he was lying ahead of a week spent over-analysing, over-thinking and overall tearing up plans, finding a solution for a better Leeds team.
A year since they sacked Bielsa to 'accelerate the coaching transition', Leeds can no longer be protagonists in their own stadium against Brighton, who used their head coach's walkout in September to make their team even better.
United's whole day was summed up when Struijk watched his clearance rolling towards his corner flag, and the camera caught his eyeroll when the ball clipped the pole and fell corner side, not throw-in. Typical.
If Leeds have an inspiration at the moment it's Raphinha, leading by glowering, frustrated example, yelling at the crowd to give the ball back, yelling at the bench about the game, yelling at his teammates to get in the box for one of his not so long-throws.