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Daniel Farke hails ‘dominant’ Leeds after extra-time win over Plymouth
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Leeds boss Daniel Farke praised his side for their 4-1 extra-time win at Championship rivals Plymouth.
Extra-time goals by substitutes Georginio Rutter and Crysencio Summerville and a Ryan Hardie own goal settled the FA Cup fourth-round replay and sealed Leeds’ passage into the last 16 – and a trip to Aston Villa or Chelsea.
Brendan Galloway’s 78th-minute chested goal for Argyle had cancelled out Wilfried Gnonto’s 66th-minute opener to force extra time.
Farke said: “It was nearly the perfect away performance. We were so dominant, we created so many chances, scored the goals but we also hit the crossbar twice and the post.
“The scoreline flattered us, yes but not that we had to play 120 minutes and it was also a replay.
“I want to say firstly congratulations to Plymouth, a brave side, a confident side, they never know when they are beaten.
“They found a way in both games to get a foot in the door although we were so dominant.
“We dominated the second half, I just saw the statistics that we had 82 per cent of the possession. But Plymouth had the free-kick and they managed to score so they were pretty effective.
“Plymouth scored out of nothing but we showed great heart to win this. We invested so much energy and mentality into the game and showed a real will to win.
“We took risks and pressed them high and also defended with discipline. I am happy with the performance as we gave everything.
“I don’t look too far ahead but we can think about the next round when it comes around. It will be an exciting game.”
Argyle boss Ian Foster said: “I said to them after the game how proud I am of them.
“We spoke about coming away with no regrets and I am proud of the way we approached the game and how difficult we made it for Leeds over two games.
“The scoreline is quite sobering for us in terms of their ruthlessness at the end. We won’t be downtrodden about the result because we know how well we played over two games.
“Look at the quality that Leeds had on the pitch late on, it makes it challenging for you. We will learn from playing against top-quality opposition.
“Leeds are a smashing outfit and they deserved to go through on the balance of the game and we wish them well.
“We have been caught a couple of times and that is fine. We will stick together and keep learning and improving. We are a young and inexperienced team at this level.
“It’s quite difficult because it was a sobering scoreline but we will take the positives from it, dust ourselves down and move on.
“We have got four boys who were ineligible, which is fine, because we knew that. I have got no issues with the number of subs we had today (six, of the permitted nine); we had to go with what we had.
“We will be good to go for Sunderland on Saturday. We will have six more players available to us on Saturday, which is good.
“Late in the game we were still in it, but we want to leave our top scorers on the pitch. We wanted to give it a good go.”
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