He has been a key cog in Leeds turning Elland Road into a real fortress, with their last defeat in front of their own fans coming on 3 March.
Going into the weekend, only Arsenal (52), Manchester City (50), Manchester United (45) and Bournemouth (37) had claimed more top-flight points in 2026 than the 35 Farke’s side have mustered.
The German boss has been helped by consistent team selections – naming an unchanged starting XI for 10 Premier League games since the start of 2025-26, the most by any side.
Eagles shipping goals
Crystal Palace’s rocky start to life under new boss Pierre Sage continued last Saturday with a demoralising late defeat by Ipswich to make it three defeats from four league games.
Once again their suspect defence was exposed. Axel Disasi’s 34th minute red card certainly didn’t help matters, but shipping multiple goals merely continued an unwanted trend that begun under Oliver Glasner.
The Eagles have now conceded two or more times in 10 consecutive top-flight matches – second only to Fulham‘s Premier League record of 13 straight games set in January to April 2019.
Defensively they have been all over the place and have shipped the most goals (11), faced the most xG (8.15) and joint most shots on target (26) and allowed their opponents the most touches in their own box (164).