Daniel Farke’s attack is where Leeds United made the most changes to the squad over the summer.
Leeds sold their best two players in Crysencio Summerville and Georginio Rutter, which forced them into the market for replacements.
Largie Ramazani and Manor Solomon were the two chosen by Leeds, while Brenden Aaronson also made the decision to return to Elland Road after his loan spell at Union Berlin.
Farke has now also finally placed his trust in Mateo Joseph to be his starting striker, with Tony Dorigo hailing the Spaniard as the ‘full package’ despite only scoring once this season.
Leeds could quite easily start an entire new front four to the one that played the majority of the matches last season. As such, it could be a while until they are really at their best.
What Farke thinks of Leeds’ attacking options
Despite the return of Aaronson and the signing of Solomon and Ramazani, Farke was left disappointed at Leeds’ failure to sign another number 10.
Farke has also been critical of Leeds’ wastefulness in front of goal. It cost the Whites a win over Portsmouth, at least a point against Burnley, and should’ve seen them score far more at Cardiff City.
However, taking last weekend’s game in South Wales for example, all four of Leeds’ starting attackers were aged 23 or under. Unfortunately, that inexperience is going to lead to missed chances.
And according to journalist Ben Jacobs, despite Farke’s frustration last week, he is actually pleased with his set of attacking options and believes the goals will start flowing soon enough.
He told Give Me Sport: “Leeds are actually quite happy, from what sources tell me, about their attacking options, and they’re hoping that multiple players get into double figures as far as goals are concerned.
“And if that’s the case, then the belief is, from Leeds’ perspective, they’ll have enough goals to get themselves back to the Premier League at the second time of asking.”
What Farke said about Leeds’ missed chances
Leeds may have picked up all three points against Cardiff last week but there was certainly a feeling of underhwelment.
Cardiff were bottom of the table having only scored one goal all season and so after being down to 10 men for much of the game, Leeds should’ve put them to the sword.
However, it was not until the 87th minute that Leeds found a second, and it’s fair to say Farke was not happy. If that doesn’t improve by January, it will be interesting to see if Leeds do sign another attacker.
He said: “We should have buried the game earlier.” Our conversion rate was the only thing I could criticise. You can always concede out of nothing in this league, so the conversion rate was the issue for me. We will keep working on this.”
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