Daniel Farke shares what he wants to bait Arsenal into doing against Leeds as three key threats outlined

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Leeds United manager Daniel Farke has outlined three things he wants his players to do in order to try and beat Arsenal on Saturday.

Arsenal host Leeds in Saturday’s early evening Premier League kick-off, with both sides keen on maintaining their winning run.

The Gunners ran out 1-0 winners at Manchester United last weekend, while Leeds overcame Everton by the same scoreline on Monday night.

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Daniel Farke wants Leeds to be resolute, positive and good in possession at Arsenal

Farke, speaking at his pre-match press conference, made it clear that he would not be compromising his side’s style of play in games against the likes of Arsenal.

And while Farke acknowledged that “defensive steel” is important, he also said Leeds would need to have good amounts of possession and also carve out chances via positive football.

Farke stressed that having plenty of possession would help bait Arsenal into wasting energy whilst Leeds would recover their own.

“We won’t sell our DNA in this Premier League season,” Farke said, as per the Leeds website.

“I think if you just concentrate on trying to defend 90 or whatever, 95, 96 minutes, you have no chance to survive there.

“You have to make sure that you have as many periods as possible when you also control the ball, when you can recover with possession and let them shift and let them waste some energy against the ball.

“I think it is also important to try to create chances to be dangerous ourselves and to play positive football and try to create chances to score goals.

“So for that, of course, there will be also periods in the game when we suffer and when we have to be well structured and really as a compact unit against the ball.

“Then we have to show, of course, also our defensive steel and also the behaviour that we have shown in pre-season, but also on the first game day that we can defend our goal.

“We hardly conceded a chance against us on the first game day and we will try to do the same also in the difficult away game.”

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Arsenal team news vs Leeds

Mikel Arteta has confirmed that Kai Havertz will not be available against Leeds due to a knee injury.

However, Arteta could not provide a timescale for Havertz’s recovery, as the club are yet to determine the severity of the injury.

Christian Norgaard will also be out, while Ben White is set for a late fitness test.

Arteta said Jurrien Timber’s workload will need to be managed, though he did not elaborate on his availability ahead of the game.