They ought to have, because for an hour they were comfortably the better team but only had Jaidon Athony’s wonderful solo goal to show for it.
A side with six changes was unable to keep its foot on the gas, and Adam Randell was able to secure a 1-1 draw which means Leeds must now go to Plymouth twice in February – as well as Bristol and Swansea.
But the reason Farke was not angry was because he felt his team had played so well, Anthony and Willy Gnonto both hitting the woodwork in the same move at 0-0, two of 18 shots for the home team.
“Leeds United, we never go the easy way,” was how Farke opened his post-match press conference, no doubt echoing the thoughts of many a supporter.
We wanted to go into the next round, we are not, so the first reaction is we are definitely disappointed with it.
“To be honest I’m struggling to be annoyed performance-wise because we were so dominant, we had a good energy on the pitch on against the ball, with the ball, in a dominant first half.
“But we played a good side and the problem today was we didn’t kill the game with the second goal. In the first half, at the beginning of the second half and even after the equaliser we had chances to win the game and it’s football.
“For us it was the third game within six days, we had to do without several key players, they had a whole week to prepare for this big game, played with their best possible starting line-up (something ineligible midfielders Darko Gyabi and Adam Forshaw might dispute) and it’s a good side so it’s quite normal that over the course of 90 minutes a good Plymouth side with many players who played with confidence – (Morgan) Whitaker had 15 goals in the league – that they can create one or two chances in the game.
“They were able out of their two chances (which were on target) to scored one goal, we sadly scored out of our 10, 12 chances (they had eight on target) also just one goal so you have to say congratulations to their effectiveness.
“In football it’s always about effectiveness.
“We could have done without the replay but I definitely prefer this draw to lose the game because we still have a chance to go into the next round.
