Ao Tanaka has sized up Friday night’s Elland Road visit of West Ham.
Ao Tanaka is eyeing an “incredible” Leeds United “difference” against West Ham in declaring a Whites must with a personal admission.
Leeds have taken five points from four games played at LS11 so far this season, the opening weekend Monday night win against Everton followed by draws against Newcastle United and Bournemouth before the 2-1 defeat to Tottenham before the international break.
Friday’s visit of West Ham, though, marks just a second game of the season under the Elland Road lights, Tanaka saluting the match-night atmosphere that United’s fans create as an “incredible, unbelievable” difference for his team.
Overall, Tanaka feels his Whites have started the new season well but the Japanese international star admits the heat is now on to pick up more points and that he too has a lot to learn at this level of the game from set pieces to long throws.
“This is important for us to win this game”
“I think this game is a little bit different because against Everton as well, we play a night game and then I think it was incredible, unbelievable.
“If we get a chance, if we play good, it makes so much good feeling here [for the crowd], so this is important for us to win this game.”
Reflecting on his team’s start to the season so far, Tanaka said: “We did well, we did well.
“But of course, we have to get points as much as possible and we have to win, especially at home. So, yeah, we have to keep going.
“Especially in the Premier League, every team is at such a high level so it is not easy to win the game. It is not easy to get a point, one point, but we just focus on the details. This is important for the Premier League.
“Small things are like every team has so much quality, especially with set pieces as well, long throws as well. This is important, so I need to learn a lot of things.”
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