Leeds United v Brentford: Running order no advantage in relegation battle, says Daniel Farke

With eight games to play, the pressure is mounting on Leeds, Tottenham Hotspur, Nottingham Forest and West Ham United, who are effectively competing to avoid being the team who joins Wolverhampton Wanderers and Burnley back in next season's Championship.

As the team with the most points, Leeds have the least pressure, and playing Brentford at 8pm on Saturday gives them a chance to apply the thumbscrews to the other three, who all play on Sunday.

A home win at Elland Road could make the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium a very tense place indeed when Forest kick off there at 2.15pm.

Farke, though, is reluctant to get drawn into any of that.

"I'm not out too much about pressure because we have pressure in each gameday and I wouldn't say that other teams have less pressure if we would just draw or lose a game," argues Farke, who has a fully-fit squad, but left wing-back Gabriel Gudmundsson suspended.

"Each team at this level has pressure and expectations, this is not a topic for me.

"I just know that we need to win a few more points and the sooner we can get this, the less pressure we have than in the crunchtime period of the season.

"For me crunchtime period is always after the last international break (which follows this weekend).

"The last six gamedays is more or less when you have to deliver but in this period right now the table is made and you have to bring yourself to the best possible level."

Where he was prepared to be more definitive is on how many points Leeds need.

"I always expected every team would fight more or less until the end to grab their chances to stay in this league,” he commented.

"It's one of the seasons where you perhaps need a few more points than in the last seasons. In recent seasons very often 32 points would have been enough to stay in this league.

"Thirty-eight was more or less always our crossbar.

"I mentioned before the Crystal Palace game seven to nine points are needed so right now, after the draw, six to eight points are needed and we have eight opportunities to win them.

"From the first day of the season we were confident in ourselves after I would say many brilliant performances and also good results.

"Once you're newly promoted you don't know exactly what will happen in this league and everyone is aware of the different animal that the Premier League can be but I think we can take lots of confidence also out of our last performances, also the last results.

"But there's still work to do and if we don't manage to win six to eight points out of the last eight games then we probably don't deserve to stay in this league but I'm pretty sure that we will.

"We are in the quarter-final of the FA Cup and we are only on 32 points so we're on a good path but nothing is achieved yet."