Leeds are struggling. Coach Daniel Farke is said to have been given two games to convince the management he deserves to keep his job. When the two games are against Manchester City and Chelsea, then you are in trouble as a coach. However, it turned out that Farke and the Leeds players managed to shake City at the Etihad, an overtime goal by Phil Foden separating Leeds from the points share. Now Farke wants a rule change in the Premier League.
It wasn’t Foden’s goal that was the problem, but an incident that happened when Leeds surprisingly led 1-2 after 68 minutes. Then City goalkeeper Donnarumma signalled for injury, and received treatment out on the pitch. The Leeds manager believes this was simply a play to give Guardiola the opportunity to talk to his players.
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After the game, there was a long speech from a very annoyed Farke.
-Everyone knows why he went down, right? It’s not like the elephant in the room. You can ask me what I think about it, why he went down, I think it was obvious. It is within the rules. That’s smart. If I like it, if it’s in a fair play sense, if it’s going to be like that, I keep it to myself and leave it to the Premier League to find solutions to it. It is within the rules. I asked the fourth referee if he wanted to do anything, he said, ‘No, we’re tied on our hands, we can’t do anything,'” Farke begins.
-If we don’t educate our players in football what to do in terms of fair play, sportsmanship, if you’re trying to bend the rules to your advantage, and you can pretend you’re injured to have an extra team chat, I don’t think that’s something I personally like, but if it’s within the rules, I can’t complain about that. My recommendation is that if this happens, it is 50/50 to the away team instead of the home team. After 90 minutes with the score 2-2, I would rather have blown the whistle than all the time that was added. There are tools you can use to make sure this doesn’t happen. There is a reason why the goalkeeper goes down and not an outfield player; An outfield player must resign. I think that for the Premier League to find a solution, in a fair play sense, I have my doubts. I don’t criticize my colleague. It’s not that he (Guardiola) went down. If he has time to do it, and if it’s an injury, I would do it. We have such a good relationship, and Pep is by far the best manager in the world. Fine-tuning something in a match, there’s no one better. That is not one percent criticism of Pep. That this happens, everyone knows that,” the Leeds manager concludes.
Who knows that one or three points against City could have saved the job.
