Leeds United took another step towards their final goal of automatic promotions back to Premier league At the other time of the questions when West Bromwich Albion kept them 1-1.
Daniel FarkaOn Saturday, the side played the host of Baggies on Elland Road and failed to ask for all three points, despite taking the lead through Junior Firpo.
Whites are now three points in front of Sheffield United in the second place in Priority And eight points from Burnley in third place, and 11 matches are left to play.
This means that Farke and his team are in a fantastic position to ensure that he misses the playoffs of the playoffs, going straight to the top flight, instead of going to matches after the season.
Leeds competes for automatic promotion over the summer disorder in which they saw many key stars, including Crysencio Summerville, Archie Gray, Georginio Rutter and Glen Kamara, starting with Elland Road.
Impressive employment was in the heart of the team’s success, and especially the summer signature, especially, which he caught around this season, was ao tanaka.
AO TANAKA Form for Leeds
The whites reportedly paid modestly £ 3.4 million fee In order to sign Japan International on the German side of Fortuna Dusseldorf in a summer transition window to enhance their capabilities in the middle of the park.
However, Tanaka was not brought to start the middle for Farka immediately. Was a replacement in his The first four championships Performances, such as Ilia Gruev and Ethan Ampad, started together, and an ampad injury against Coventry gave him the opportunity to lease a place as a regular starter.
The 26-year-old star continued Start 27 matches In the second level to date, he has established himself as an option for Leeds in front of the back four.
Tanaka, who recently scored a big goal against Sheffield United in the promotion of six pointers, offered an incredibly reliable presence in the White’s possession.
Leeds is a dominant team, On average 60.9% of possession By the championship game, which means that their midfielders must be comfortable in a lot of touches.
|
24/25 Championship |
Ao Tanaka (90) |
Percentage |
|---|---|---|
|
Passes try |
74.87 |
Upper 5% |
|
Pass the accuracy |
89.8% |
Top 2% |
|
Progressive passage |
7.40 |
Upper 5% |
|
Passes into the last third |
7.03 |
Upper 5% |
|
Passes into the penalty area |
1.38 |
Top 10% |
As you can see in the table above, the tanaka is incredibly high among the midfielders in the division when it comes to completing the passage and progress in the last third.
He is the middle maestro for Farkar and gladly watched in the championship of this season, but he is not the first one to play at a (potentially) promotional victory at this level for the White.
Marcelo Bielsa had his ao tanaka
Former lead coach Leeds Marcelo Biels, who won the second level in the 2019/20 campaign, had his own version of the AO Tanak in the form of English metronome Adam Forshaw.
Former whites struggled with the club with the club during their time and was limited to seven appearances And six begins in the league of that term, but he was exceptional in the games he played.
As you can see on the upper chart, Forshaw’s use of the ball of that season was incredibly similar to Tanakin with this term, in terms of his progressive passage and his effectiveness with the ball in front of his feet, and offering more than Japanese stars as creative threats.
Forshaw, who an average of 1.23 passages In the penalty area of 90, he provided the Bielsi metronomical figure in the engine room, because he had technical quality to constantly enter the ball and make things marked on a dominant side promotion.
Unfortunately his fitness questions ultimately distracted his time on Elland Road, as a midfielder who was Described as “worthy” from the Argentine tactic, he continued to play only 34 Premier League match In the next three seasons.
Still showed signs of promise in a top -notch flight upper 15% From the midfielder to go to the last third of 90 (5.64) and in the first 16% for the key passes of 90 (1.5), which shows that he offered quality as a progressive and creative passerby in the Premier League.
This shows that he was Biels’s own version of the tanaka because he was another reduced with a metronus that could be a terrier in the middle of the field, buzzing around the field to dictate the pace of games, and also had the ability to progress to play and find a teammate in dangerous areas.
What happened to Adam Forshaw
His contract at Elland Road Expired in the summer of 2023 And it was an unpleasant time for players out of the contract because Leeds had just dropped out and did not appoint a permanent main coach until Farke arrived in July after the contracts expired.
Executive director Angus Kinnear did not decide to expand Forshaw’s contract before appointing a new manager, which meant that he allowed the midfielder star to go to a free transfer that summer.
This proved to be an excellent decision by Kinnear as Forshaw, despite the quality he portrayed in his time under Biels on Elland Road, he has bounced around the championship in recent years.
Joined Norwich on a free transfer after leaving Leeds and only Made nine appearances In the first half of the season, before he was allowed to join Plymouth Argyle on a free transfer.
The 33-year-old lasted one year with pilgrims, Playing 30 times In all competitions, before securing another free broadcast of the championship team in January this season – Blackburn joined the Rovers.
Forshaw scored a hit one goal in ten Second levels for Blackburn matches so far, from his shift at the beginning of the year, and they may hope that he will finally calm down after three free transfers in a distance of 18 months.
Akin
The fact that the English central midfielder bounced on the championship, without commanding the transfer fee, suggests that Leeds allowed him to go at the right time and that they were right to not award him a new contract in the summer of 2023, despite his quality when he is available for white in the past.
