The Leeds United players, staring into the abyss of their dressing room floor at Wembley on Sunday, did not want positive comments. The Championship play-off final saw Southampton defeat the Whites 1-0, meaning that their 49-game winning streak came to an end.
The end of a lengthy season is finally here, but the new one won’t begin for another 11 weeks. In just over four weeks, Leeds will receive their new campaign’s fixtures, and they will once again include them in the second division. Daniel Farke should not have started beating the drum about taking three points at Kassam Stadium when the hurt was still fresh at the national stadium.
The German stated that his team has no need to focus on a season that yielded 90 points, a total that in 15 of the previous 20 years at this level would have guaranteed automatic promotion.
It would be too early to be there with positive words since, at the moment, no one wants to hear it, he added, “after you lose a final and you are just one day, more or less, away from everyone going into the summer break.” “There have been a lot of tears shed in the dressing room and on the field as everyone is hurt and disappointed.”
You have to give them space to feel defeated, but ultimately, there’s no need to focus on it when you take a closer look in the coming days at the larger picture, the 90 points I stated, how we performed in the play-offs, and how we performed in the championship. It’s more crucial to use this setback and this experience as additional inspiration to make sure that these fans—who were outstanding today—have a day when they can rejoice and enjoy themselves, as they were not only in this league but also in this nation.
We are quite unhappy that we are unable to provide our supporters with something to be happy about as a result, and we feel the pain today. These guys have no reason to worry about it, and we’ll use this as further inspiration to return even stronger. We may not be in the Promised Land, where we want to be in the Premier League, but one thing is certain: we are not back there yet.
We were there with ninety points during the season, so it will be challenging to return stronger. Overall, that’s a fantastic accomplishment, but we also want to celebrate the fact that we were able to reach the ideal result and can now proudly call ourselves a Premier League team.
