Leeds United 3-3 Portsmouth: Under the overwhelm
Daniel Farke says winning 22-0 "never happens", but Leeds look better when they believe it's worth a try.
Daniel Farke says winning 22-0 "never happens", but Leeds look better when they believe it's worth a try.
What makes Rutter a brilliant player is the speed with which his body expresses his intelligence. To watch a player processing and executing this way is like watching someone inventing a calculator.
Now it is summer and the sun is shining, but Leeds look great, and won't go wrong if they turn that into being great.
Our team does not yet look like the team that will canter to the EFL Championship title this coming season, but at Harrogate on Friday it looked different to the one that cantered into a brick wall at the end of their last campaign.
When Bielsa placed his hands on Christiansen's shoulders before this game began the moment passing between them contained multitudes, from Vurnon Anita to Jay-Roy Grot.
The goal was the beginning of the end. A sinking feeling, a knowing glance. A resorting to hope — maybe it'll be different, this time — that was contradicted every time you looked at the players.
Where had all this been? There was so much more of it. Twice in a first half minute first Rutter then Gnonto went Maradona mode, slaloming upfield with the ball at their feet, evading tackles, gathering speed towards the goal(s) of the century(ies).
"Hopefully the second step, by scoring, comes this coming Thursday," said Daniel Farke. Hopefully!
A lot of things could have been better this season. But not by much.
Ninety points say Farke does know what he's doing. But that those points haven't already secured promotion suggests Farke has been caught out.