The celebrations were calming on a wild road on her last Monday, when the hero of Leeds United, Pascal Struijk, was told to make her career after the game with the other substitutes.
Struijk had left the bench to score an orthopedic device, including a 95 -minute winner against Sunderland, so the vicecapitan and the center of Leeds joked what he had to do to be saved.
'Hat-trick score', was the answer.
In a nutshell, he summed up both hunger and camaraderie inside this side of Leeds, which will remain by seven points of the places of play -off, and five clearings at the top, if they win in the second place of Sheffield United United the Monday night.
Daniel Farke's men have been undefeated since November in the championship and in progress per 100 points. After the pain of last season, where they put 90 points and then lost in the Play -off final to Southampton, to say that there is a feeling of pending issues would be a euphemism, even if Farke had told their players to forget of pain. , the morning after losing in Wembley.
As a source from the mantra club that drives the costumes: 'Most of the team still hurts last season. Players want to correct mistakes and do whatever it is necessary to not have the same feeling this summer. '
Pascal Struijk came out of the bench to score two goals when Leed defeated Sunderland last Monday
Despite being the star man, Struijk was ordered to join his submarines in a career after the party
It is a mentality that explains the cruelty and implacability of Leeds, particularly in recent weeks where their title credentials have emphasized, winning six of the last seven league games.
And a broader exchange of responsibility: of the 20 goals that have scored in those seven games, they have had 10 different scorers.
In the four main divisions, Leeds are the highest scorers despite losing two of their most prolific players in Crysencio Summerville and Georginio Rutter against the Premier League last summer.
Similar to Marcelo Bielsa's second season in Leeds, when the top scorer Kemar Roofe left, Farke's team has improved his last season's production despite losing key players.
In the field, Farke believes that his domain of possession is essential for everything they do with LEEDs playing more passes and trying the least amount of long balls, compared to his championship opponents.
“The key to cleaning the leaves is to be dominant in possession,” Farke said earlier this month.
Her average possession for the season is 61 percent of the league, but a common theme that Farke sought to address from the beginning was how she wicked impatiently at the times when the dead point does not break against the weakest opposition.
Each team wants to score early, but the German has emphasized the importance of running outside the blocks to calm the tension inside the ground. And his players have heard.
The former administrator of the city of Norwich, Daniel Farke, has been in charge of Leeds since July 2023
He led Leeds to the final of the play-off last season, but this time he is anxious to avoid the play-offs.
In his 17 games at the league's house, Leeds has scored 12 goals in the first 20 minutes: only Sheffield United can match that number this season, and that requires that the Blades matches be added. When Leeds has scored this season, at home or far, they have not lost.
In the back, Leeds spent more than nine hours without granting in the league to the goal of Wilson Isidor last week. That was the first time they continued in a championship game since November.
The key to that has also been the arc of redemption of goalkeeper Illan Meslier, who has appeared when requested in recent weeks.
Following his 3-3 draw in Hull last month when Meslier made two huge mistakes, the calls grew to drop the French goalkeeper, but Farke was caught by the 24-year-old and has only granted once since then.
When Struijk scored the winner against Sunderland, Meslier ran to the extreme outside and hollowed out the ears to travelers who spent the game mocking his infamous howler at the Luz Stadium at the beginning of the season.
Of course, thanks to strange events in Burnley this season, they are not the best defensive side of the division, but they have scored 25 goals more than the Clarets and that has led his position. Only Borja Sainz de Norwich (15 goals) has surpassed Joel Piroe this season, and Piroe has played 600 less minutes than his rival.
The discipline has also been key: the LEEDS are one of the six sides of the championship so as not to receive a red card this season and only Coventry (52 yellow, 0 red) can overcome the 53 yellow cards of the Farke team.
Slow but sure, the ghosts of last season have also been exorcised during this current undefeated race of 15 games.
Leeds currently sits at the top of the championship table after winning 21 of its first 33 games
Good discipline has helped Leeds avoid red cards, although they have received 52 yellow
The beginning of the end for the automatic promotion impulse of Leeds The last term was in Coventry. After losing there, Leeds won only four points in his last five.
When Leeds returned to CBS Arena a couple of weeks ago against one side managed by Frank Lampard, they surpassed Coventry and had a good value for more than the score 2-0. Lampard praised Leeds as “the best side of the league.”
A week later, they passed four beyond Watford in Vicarage Road, another land where they eliminated the points in the race for the promotion last season.
After both victories, Farke made sure that all his players and the staff were at the end to celebrate. It will never be Bielsa, but his style certainly works, with an average of more than two points per game.
“Those trips in the middle of the week were evidence with which we would traditionally have difficulties, but the players are spending everything with flying colors and that is largely due to meticulous preparation and inner unit,” adds the source of Leeds.
You just have to go to social networks to see how very close this group with Joshua Guilavagui taking the opportunity to publish a photo of Farke on the floor after the victory against Sunderland, and others showed how good the camaraderie is good.
But those in Thorp Arch insist that the primary culture is “serious” because not a player there wants to play championship football next season, and the consequences of missing the promotion again do not have to think about the ambition of the best players of the team . , and also its owners in San Francisco.
The impulse on this side is fed by Farke's “direct” nature with an approach similar to a laser that is channeled to the players.
The Farke manager was photographed on his back after Leeds came from behind to beat Sunderland
There is respect in all areas because he knows what is needed to climb, even if he emphasizes in public that the task in question with Leeds is something different from that of Norwich, where he won the championship twice.
He will be absent from the bench tonight while fulfilling a contact line prohibition after they reserved it for running in the field to celebrate the winner of Struijk. It is a prohibition that even his counterpart Chris Wilder described as “ridicule”, but Farke will comfort the fact that at this time, his side is doing exactly what he asks.
“I wasn't posing to show my emotions as if I were an actor for the next Oscar,” he said. 'I know how emotional Leeds United is. This is one of the reasons why it is so difficult to provide success and consistency to this club and why it has been so difficult in the last 25 years. It is important to channel your emotions, but it was a crucial game and I was very happy for my players because I know how much it meant. They were relentless and showed the winning mentality that you need to create within a group if you want to achieve something, “he added.
After this week, Leeds will not play any of the current seven best in its remaining 11 games. The visit of the play contestants -off West Brom on Saturday is followed by a series of extremely liveable games against intermediate tits teams: the positions of their remaining opponents are 17, 11, 14, 16, 24, 13, 15, 15, 15, 15, 18, 19, 8, 22. The work is not complete, but if they fail to get from here, it would be a disaster.