A tough season ahead, but this gives us hope

What Wednesday night's game showed was that playing direct can still be fun and it can still look good.

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Mood swings are all the rage in football, but there was nothing flaky about the rage and concern that was building around Daniel Farke and his job security at Elland Road ahead of the Chelsea clash. Performance levels had dropped, at least on the road, they were conceding the same goal repeatedly and, most importantly of all, they were losing games.

Regardless of how deserved the individual results were or were not, three points from a possible 21 is relegation form in anyone's book.