Daniel Farke’s mood ‘in-between’ after Leeds’ draw at Sunderland

Daniel Farke admitted his mood was “in-between” despite Leeds claiming a “good point” in a 1-1 draw against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.

The Black Cats went ahead through Simon Adingra in the 28th minute before the visitors were handed a blow with Joe Rodon forced off through injury.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin continued his fine form, scoring for the sixth game running straight after the restart and although Leeds put in a strong second-half display, the spoils were shared to extend their unbeaten run to five games.

Reflecting on the match, Farke said: “The unbeaten run continues. We showed again a great mentality to come back out of a losing position.

“Then of course another point on the table. A difficult away game, no other team has come away with a better result so far in this Premier League season, so Sunderland are unbeaten here at home.

“It’s definitely a good point. The performance from minute 30 on, because I think we dominated this game, mood-wise I’m a bit in-between. All the positives I mentioned now, but the gut feeling was we could have started the game better.

“I wasn’t really happy with the first 30 minutes. To be honest, even without the injury, I would have changed the base formation and perhaps even substituted during the first half.

“We got so much praise for our win last weekend when we scored four goals out of set-pieces. We waited way too much at the beginning, just for the situations for a throw-in, corner, free-kick.

“I think we forgot to show the second part of our DNA – football. To dominate the ball, be brave on the ball and to be proactive to take the game to the opponents’ half and to create chances to score goals.

“This is more or less what we did from minute 30 on, the goal – an