The Premier League season is far from complete just yet, and Daniel Farke's Leeds United need to make sure they turn up against bottom club Wolves at Elland Road
Isaac Johnson Leeds United reporter
05:00, 18 Apr 2026
Daniel Farke is keeping a cool head
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Daniel Farke is keeping a cool head(Image: Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)
Daniel Farke’s messaging ever since full-time at Old Trafford on Monday has been; don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched - especially with Wolves coming to town.
Leeds United might have beaten Manchester United in an away league game for the first time in 45 years, eight days after reaching their first FA Cup semi-final for 39 years, but Farke was quick to adopt his mantra of ‘fire in the belly but cool in the head’.
"Nothing is achieved yet,” he said not long after sinking to his knees in celebration as Leeds went six points clear of the Premier League relegation zone. “I'm far away from not staying humble, and being overconfident and celebrating ourselves already.
“So I'm proud of this win, and we take confidence out of this, but we don't forget where we're coming from. I know that on Saturday, it will probably be one of our most difficult games during the whole season, because the expectations are high for the home game right now.”
Farke is aware of the type of ravenous Wolves that will turn up at Elland Road later today. The bottom club could be relegated should they lose and Tottenham Hotspur beat Brighton & Hove Albion in the late kick-off. They will be fighting tooth and nail.
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Before last week’s 4-0 defeat to West Ham United, Wolves had lost just one of their past six league games and now sit sixth in the form table over the last six matchweeks, which included wins over Liverpool and Aston Villa as well as a draw with Arsenal.
This is a very different side to the one that Leeds defeated 3-1 at Molineux back in September - which was their sole Premier League away win of the season prior to Monday's historic triumph in Manchester.
Nevertheless, a victory today pushes them to 39 points, just one off the 40 that Farke says will “definitely” be enough to secure survival. Former Leeds defender Dom Matteo has faith that the German can take the Whites over the line.
“I 100% think Leeds are staying up,” he told Leeds Live. “You saw the manager celebrate as he did after the Man Utd game - there was something about that. He went to his knees, and I've not seen a reaction like that.
“And I know Leeds haven't won there for many years, but it wasn't just that - that was just a manager thinking ‘I've got this right, and my team's improving’. Knowing Farke, he’ll be thinking nothing's done yet.”
Matteo added: “It won't be easy on Saturday because Wolves have nothing to lose. So I think this could be a dangerous game if we don't approach it properly. You can’t be too cocky because you've had a brilliant game against Man United.”
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This mindset has been drummed into the players this week. “We know they’ve got real good quality,” Karl Darlow told BBC Radio Leeds.
“They've got four or five different talents that we know, probably more so in recent weeks where they’ve had upsets or pulled out results where you thought they might not get them.
Noah Okafor made his feelings perfectly clear after scoring twice in Leeds United's win over Manchester United
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Noah Okafor made his feelings perfectly clear after scoring twice in Leeds United's win over Manchester United(Image: (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images))
So the players are aware of the task, and Farke has asked the Elland Road crowd both to be patient and drive the atmosphere. "We will need them in this game, perhaps even more than the Man United game," he said on Thursday.
"It's important that we create an atmosphere where, from the first to the last second, we get the support. And no-one in the stadium gets nervous - we don't have to win the game after 10 minutes. We want the correct result after 90 plus minutes.
"And for that, we need our supporters to carry us also through this game, through difficult periods and perhaps when not everything goes to plan, even more than in any other games during the season."
Ahead of these two games this week, Leeds would have taken three or four points. But after Monday, anything less than six would now be a disappointment. And not only would a win retain momentum but it would further prove Farke’s theory correct.
“We still work a little bit to get rid of this old narrative, ‘Leeds are falling apart again’, that we always crumble when it really counts… It feels like when it really matters, we deliver under pressure.”
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Dom Matteo was speaking to Leeds Live courtesy of BetSelect.co.uk.