Leeds United vs Queens Park Rangers press conference live: Daniel Farke faces team selection questions

There was a little setback in training and for that he had to return to individual rehab work but I think in the next one or two days he will also return back to team training.

He is an important part of our group, there’s no doubt to be captain of this club, he didn’t win the lottery. It’s more like it’s well deserved and a player and also human being the person who loves this club as more or less, he’s got white blood in his veins and I’m full of praise so far. So obviously, yes, first of all, he could have been better last game but there were three or four little mistakes that led to this [first] goal and when I watch and judge his performances so far, I think he had a brilliant pre-season. so when he was on the pitch during pre-season, we have not conceded one goal, so he was pretty impressive. And then we were there the first game [vs Cardiff] and he sacrificed himself, he sacrificed his body in order to score a pretty important goal, then worked unbelievably hard in the rehab process.

There’s not that much time [in Saturday-Tuesday schedule], it’s more like analysing the game, showing scenes and speaking and talking about the details what we have to improve and also on the individual level it was also not too much work after last game because the players were quite self-critical and we know that we have to improve in a few topics.

Luke is always an [option] because he’s done well so far. He was involved in many good games has also scored an important goal, he’s one of our leaders and due to the workload at the moment and you have three games within seven days and suddenly he’s not 22 anymore, so you also have to keep this in [mind]. We have also some good players and some good options and we need all the players and Luke, like all the players, have a chance to be involved [vs QPR].

A few little knocks after the last game but all of them are available.

Willy Gnonto and Djed Spence, they are on track, recovering nicely but no chance before the international break. Junior Firpo back into team training on the other side of the international break.

I don’t expect against such a solid side that doesn’t allow many chances, that we create many one-v-ones vs the goalkeeper so we have to be brutal when it comes down to finishing moments and this will be the task for the game.

When you go a bit more detailed into the analysing, yes they’re not in the best position but in the last three away games have just conceded one goal, so they looked unbelievable solid away from home.

I think he’s settled in unbelievable, because he had to play the first games without being prepared without the proper pre-season games, I think. yes, fantastic. so far. We had many clean sheets with him, yes also few games we have conceded for example, in Ipswich. He was definitely there with good performances but has not reached his perfect level I think there’s much more to come from and much more potential for example, when we speak about the yellow red card here to handle it a different way.

I’m totally convinced of his potential.

I will also never get used to lose football games. It’s always the same next day. I don’t want to get up. I don’t want to speak about football.

We’ve given away four chances, they’ve scored three goals. Sometimes it’s tough to accept but we were also a few percent away from our best possible performance, not just one player, I would say the whole group want to return back to our best performance.

I think this turnaround is a bit easier. Last time it was three games within six days. And then there were just two days between the games. It’s obviously three days and 24 hours more, that helps a lot with the early kick-off on Saturday [vs Southampton].