Leeds story continues, my dear readers! And I want to inform you that season #6 has already begun. It was kind of start that could be predicted due to 4 new players in the first squad…

Matches and results

Premier League table after 12 fixtures (though Leeds has only 11 played) doesn't correspond to my title challenge ambitions. As we see currently Manchester City has 27 points versus my 19 points + 1 game on hand. Potentially gap is 5 points – not so much for unstable start in the league. Though some of my players have already stated that club is underachieving.

Let's look into played matches screen:

First 3 matches became the best start in my career - 3:1, 6:1 and 5:0 scores slightly convinced me in quick adaptation process of new first squad players. But then we got more strong opponents - Manchester United and Tottenham – who convinced me in an opposite thought The most poor matches were against Wolves and Aston Villa in which almost all goals were scored after mistake of defenders and goalkeeper. In the end it was very important to win home game versus The Gunners (champions of the last season) because gap between Leeds and 1st line of the table started to grow.

I cannot tell any special news regarding Europa League just because all teams in my group are perceptibly weaker. Therefore I use Leeds second squad in the matches against them.

League Cup

League Cup is a separate story. Do you remember I claimed before the season that I am going to challenge for title and also win one of local trophies (League Cup or FA Cup)? It seems like Leeds players support me much in this outburst. We have the most terrible calendar in League Cup this year:

- Manchester United

- Tottenham

- Chelsea (awaits me in the next round)

Now I can boast with confident victories over these clubs. The highest pride is 3:0 win over rival Manchester United:

Leeds players

Now some words about the players. At first look into the screen shot below:

I want to single out wonderful start by Marquinhos. Together with Gignac they have already managed to score 18 goals. Now seems like I have two scoring forwards. I could claim the same in the last season because result of Marquihnos was only 6 goals in 34 matches.

Now some words about new Leeds players:

- Mevlut Sahin (DC). 19 years old defender is an excellent prospective player actually. He develops himself much during trainings (like Marco Verratti), performs pretty well and has constant place in the first squad. Though there are few problems: he made two mistakes that turned into goals, and he is not really confident in air.

- Zoran Tosic (ML). I found wonderful winger for my team. His speed, dribbling and crosses are of high-quality. Moreover Zoran scored one goal from free kick and did several assists from corners. Totally he has 8 assists in 14 matches and was awarded as best Premier League player of August!

- Lautaro Acosta (AMR). Quick Argentinian is only on the way to adapt in team. Therefore I am not really happy with him currently. Dribbles too much and sometimes looses ball. Made 2 assists in 17 games. I think he'll adapt and improve his performance.

- Fabian Delph (MC). He is also trying to blend into squad. The same feeling as about Mbia's start in the previous season. Made 2 assists in 10 matches.

Brede Hangeland

Let's praise Brede who is 33 years old:

With all these attribute values he managed to score 7 goals from corners taken by Tosic, Verratti and Jadson! His average rating is highest among all Premier League defender.

And here are Hangeland's match stats:

Amazing! I didn't expect such amount of won headers and succeeded passes in this season. Leeds captain is truly fantastic defender!

True Football Manager