Daniel Farke and his Leeds United players have automatic promotion on their minds but the Whites fans have had some fun during the break. Fan favourite Ao Tanaka has taken Japan to the 2026 World Cup and Rasmus Kristensen played brilliantly against Portugal. However, the Whites supporters might have enjoyed it a lot more when two of their former players were embarrassed by an ex-Leeds manager.
Leeds United will hope the shock results this week in international football are not a sign of things to come as they prepare for the final eight games of the season.
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Leeds supporters will have to wait one more week before the Championship season resumes but Thursday night might have brought some smiles to the faces of Whites fans.
A former Leeds manager took a very unfancied team in international football and embarrassed the United States and their stars, Weston McKennie and Tyler Adams, in the Concacaf Nations League semi-finals.
Leeds United fans must be delighted to see their former players getting humbled by a former Whites boss
Thomas Christiansen would go down as one of the managers who failed at Leeds and only lasted a little less than eight months at the helm of Elland Road.
He went on to manage Union Saint-Gilloise in Belgium before taking charge of the Panama national team in 2020 where he has tasted some success.
However, the Dane probably had the best night of his managerial career on Thursday when Panama scored a late winner to beat the favourites of the Concacaf, United States, in the semi-finals of the Nations League.
Christiansen looked ecstatic on the sidelines but what would have pleased Leeds fans more was to see Adams and McKennie looking distraught on the pitch.
The two United States internationals were at Leeds and are not the most loved former players of the club’s history given their failure at Elland Road.
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McKennie and Adam were part of the Leeds team that got relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2022/23 season.
They formed the Leeds midfield and were woeful as the team went from one disaster to another that season and eventually slid down to the Championship.
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However, instead of wanting to right their wrongs, the duo were quick to move on from Leeds without any regard for the damage they caused to the team.
They are not the most popular of former Leeds players and the fans must have loved to see them suffer more embarrassment on the international stage on Thursday night.
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