Leeds United register first win of Championship season

Brenden Aaronson and Daniel James scored as Leeds United secured their first win of the season with a 2-0 victory over Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.

Aaronson's second goal of the campaign gave Leeds an interval lead and James raced clear to add a superb second soon after the restart.

Wednesday went close through Di'Shon Bernard's second-half header but Leeds created several other chances and ran out worthy winners to kick-start their promotion challenge.

A morale-boosting victory was roundly celebrated by Leeds boss Daniel Farke and the travelling fans, who are desperate for their club to bring in reinforcements in the final week of the transfer window after some key departures.

"We definitely need a few more signings if we want to be ambitious because with a squad of 12 or 13 senior players and a handful of players with barely 20 games under their belt, for this ambitious and emotional club it is not possible," said Farke.

"We have a good group to build on. That's what we've shown today but we definitely need a few additions and this will also happen over the next coming days."

Farke could not hide his relief at the final.

"This emotional club - everybody is panicking. But we are not panicking. We are convinced of what we're doing.

"I definitely need a few additions, that's definitely for sure but if we do this we are on a good path and I'm pleased for the lads.

"If they urge me to do this I can't say 'no I don't want to'. We've had some difficult times, especially in the last two weeks in terms of all the outgoings and all the rumours and the panicking."

Wednesday slipped to back-to-back defeats after their opening-day win against Plymouth and manager Danny Rohl offered an honest assessment.

"Firstly, I think we played against a strong side. They showed over 90 minutes all their quality," said Rohl.

"We knew this, we wanted to try, but we didn't have so many chances and especially with the second goal, from my point of view it was too easy in a five against one situation where we've not covered deep.

"To take something, you have to do all the basics right, and we didn't. So we deserved to lose."