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'Is Farke's football too boring for Leeds?'

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In a week when Leeds United have won in both dramatic and comfortable circumstances, is it fair that Daniel Farke’s football has been branded as boring?

Averaging 1.97 points per game – the best by any Championship manager in 20 years, his style is effective but supposedly not the most entertaining to watch.

We’ve faced the fewest shots of any club in the opening 17 games of a Championship season (113) since Opta started recording data in 2013.

While this lack of jeopardy is impressive, it doesn’t have people on the edge of their seats – thus complaints of boredom and a decline in atmosphere.

The noises I made for Willy Gnonto’s 91st-minute winner at Swansea were described as “a yelping dog being trampled on”.

Coming less than a minute after conceding the equaliser, it was well worth driving through two feet of flood water in South Wales for.

Much like the sea of travelling supporters around me, I was in complete disbelief and didn’t quite know what to do with myself.

Winning 4-3 in that fashion felt very much like the chaos under Marcelo Bielsa, which fans understandably crave more than a routine 3-0 win over Luton Town.

I personally agree that Farke’s football is boring to watch, but I also acknowledge that he has a job to do and we’re currently top of the Championship.

It’s not his fault that Bielsa has somewhat brainwashed us into thinking seven-goal thrillers are the norm.

Calls for him to be sacked are ridiculous, but bizarrely I do understand why people are fed up.

Is it fair then that Daniel Farke is judged not on the results, but on how he got them?

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