{"id":87171,"date":"2025-08-22T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87171\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:34:06","slug":"daniel-farke-insists-leeds-will-maintain-their-identity-in-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87171\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Farke insists Leeds will maintain their identity in Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniel Farke<\/a> vowed Leeds<\/a> \u201cwon\u2019t sell our DNA\u201d at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday against Premier League<\/a> title challengers Arsenal.<\/p>\n

The Gunners<\/a> are huge favourites to notch their second win of the season in their opening home game after grinding out a 1-0 triumph last week at Old Trafford, while Leeds marked their top-flight return with victory on Monday over Everton.<\/p>\n

Farke\u2019s side were the top-ranked team for goals scored (95), touches in the opposition box, possession and high turnovers en route to the Sky Bet Championship title last season.<\/p>\n

And despite the gulf between the Premier League and the second tier, the German has been tweaking, rather than ripping up, his blueprint.<\/p>\n

Farke said: \u201cWe won\u2019t sell our DNA in the Premier League this season and park the bus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you just try to defend for 96 minutes or whatever you have no chance to survive there.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to make sure you have as many periods as possible where you also control the ball and can recover with possession, and let them shift and waste some energy against the ball.<\/p>\n

We know it\u2019s a tough place to go, especially in their first home game, when they can concentrate on this game<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to try to create chances, to scare them and try to play positive football, but there will be periods where we suffer and we have to be well structured and compact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farke has already acknowledged the onerous task facing Leeds this season after all six clubs promoted to the Premier League in the previous two years have been relegated straight back down.<\/p>\n

He also said top-flight fixtures do not come any tougher than facing Arsenal in their opening home game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have the highest ambitions, the highest demands,\u201d Farke said. \u201cThey want to play for every title, they\u2019re one of the strongest opponents you can meet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know it\u2019s a tough place to go, especially in their first home game, when they can concentrate on this game, no Champions League to distract them.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would wish to have this fixture on a different date, but sometimes you can\u2019t choose and it\u2019s our toughest test so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leeds must look to defy the odds without captain Ethan Ampadu<\/a>, who will be out until after the international break after damaging knee ligaments in Monday\u2019s 1-0 win at Elland Road.<\/p>\n

Ilia Gruev is the obvious replacement after the Bulgaria midfielder stepped off the bench against Everton, but summer signing Sean Longstaff provide other options.<\/p>\n

\u201cEthan is a big miss,\u201d Farke added. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt about this. We don\u2019t have to lie and to sugarcoat the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we have players in our squad who interpret the role slightly differently and we will find the solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Switzerland winger Noah Okafor could feature after completing his \u00a318million move from AC Milan on Thursday and another summer addition, Slovenia defender Jaka Bijol, is in contention for his debut after suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-87171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}