Daniel Farke has supported Leeds United to make a fast start with their Premier League referee when they take on Everton.
Farke’s side secured promotion in 2024-25 with an impressive 100-point finish, where the championship title was held for Burnley on the last day of the season.
Despite the loss of only one match in their last 28 games in the past term, Leeds will enter the 2025-26 campaign and has signed eight new players, including Sean Longstaff from Newcastle United.
Leeds will have looked at this weekend, while Sunderland marked their return to the great time with an emphatic 3-0 defeat of West Ham, and Farke believes that a fascinating Elland Road will help the whites to get a positive result on Monday.
He said: “It is an opportunity for us to win one or three points and of course I think the atmosphere is great, it is the first time in a while for these great supporters that they can celebrate and enjoy a Premier League match.
“I think the atmosphere and the spotlights will be great and we want to enjoy it and the most pleasant is when you are there with a good performance, with a good game. On Monday evening it will be as if we go out and want to be with the best possible performance, and also with the best possible result against a really good opponent.”
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In the meantime, Everton has been starting their first full season under David Moyes since 2012-13, where this campaign marks the first of the club in Hill Dickinson Stadium after leaving Goodison Park.
The toffees go to their first show of the season and have had seven new faces, including the loan of Jack Grealish from Manchester City.
However, Moyes wants to do more business for the end of the transfer window.
He said: “We are satisfied with the players we have added to the team, but I am not satisfied because I think I still need more. We want to keep adding what we have. We have briefly in certain areas, we are okay in other departments, but we have done good things.
‘I’ve seen him alone [Grealish] For a few days here – living and close -up – and he looks fantastic. He has a good shape. There are many good things to like from Jack. I just have to make sure that I get it at the right time and make sure he played football, and we think he played enough minutes. “
Players to watch
Leeds United – Joel Piroe
Piroe played a crucial role in Leeds’ title -winning campaign, which contributed 19 goals and seven assists, while they were in each of the club’s 46 league games.
To replicate their success this season, Leeds will undoubtedly trust him to deliver similar influential performance for the goal.
However, they also signed former Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who could pose a different threat to his old club.
Everton – Thierno Barry
The acquisition of £ 27 million (€ 32 million) of the Toffees from Villarreal was a revelation in LaLiga last season, with 15 goals involvement in just 25 starts for the yellow submarine.
Everton will hope that the French Under-21 International can replicate the form of last season, since they only scored 42 league goals in previous term-the lowest count outside the lower three.
With Grealisk, the opportunities behind him, Barry, who will probably compete with Beto for a starting place, wants to strive to start in English football quickly.
Match forecast: Leeds United Win
Moyes has confronted Leeds 10 times as a Premier League manager and has won seven of those meetings (losing twice and pulling once). As such, his profit rate against Leeds (70%) is the second highest against each team with which he has confronted at least 10 times, after Sunderland (71%), a team that he also knew.
Everton is also unbeaten in their last five Premier League matches against Leeds (two wins, three draw). This is their joint longest active road unbeaten run against every current Top-Flight Club.
But they have lost their opening competition in each of the last three seasons, and the Opta model expects that Run will continue, even if Leeds has not succeeded in winning one of their last nine games in the top flight, with 29 goals in that run when they returned in 2022-13.
This will be Farke’s 50th Premier League match. He has only won six of his 49 so far, and even with a victory, the lowest profit percentage of each manager would have to supervise 50+ matches in the competition (currently 12.2%).
Leeds has only won one of their last 11 Premier League meetings with Everton (D4 L6), but they ended up last season by winning their last six champion matches.
Opta wins probability
Leeds: 41.7%
Drawing: 26.8%
Everton: 31.5%
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