Leeds United's disappointment in defeat gives Daniel Farke satisfaction after brilliant season

The Whites ended the season with a moribund 3-0 defeat against a West Ham United side who were anyway relegated from the Premier League, thanks to Tottenham Hotspur's 1-0 win at home to Everton.

Leeds were hoping to reach the 50-point target but their over-riding ambition this season, not to be relegated themselves, had already been achieved and it showed as an injury-hit side lacked intensity on the hottest day of the year so far.

Even so, the mood in the dressing room at full-time was despondent.

"I don't like this old-school attitude that you have achieved all your goals, you just make sure that no one gets injured before the holiday," said Farke. " I want this attitude (of disappointment in defeat) and this is the only attitude that my lads know.

"Even if you lose a training game you should be close to crying. This is more or less like how you make sure that you survive as a promoted side.

"This is the mentality and the culture that we have instilled in this group and if anyone would be in the dressing room not disappointed with a loss in the final game of the season, he wouldn't be the right player for Leeds.

"If you put the shirt on, you have a great responsibility and you have all to play for. Not just to achieve survival, but even after survival is achieved, even in a friendly or whatever. We always have the responsibility to represent this club in the best possible way.

"I have no doubt that this is the mentality in the dressing room but one thing is also for sure, from this second half, we won't dwell on that for the future, that's also for sure."

Nevertheless, he did after admit his team was not at its best at the London Stadium.

"We wanted to finish the season, a fantastic season, with a better result," he stressed. "I think it's fair to say that it was probably one game too many without too many key players.

"In the last weeks, we have always found a solution, somehow, to grind out a performance and a really good result. Not today.

"The first half was okay. We were a bit indecisive in front of the goal. We had a good situation in the first half.

"Normally, we should have gone into the lead, and perhaps even put the game to bed already in the second half.

"But then we were sloppy in possession, not focussed and concentrated.

"All the goals were an unnecessary loss of the ball, counter-attack, and then either it was straight away a goal, like the second goal for Jarrod (Bowen), or it was more or less like we could clear in the last moment to a corner, and then the corner was in.

"In possession, we were by far not at our best today.

"I think you could feel that several key players missing, and also several key players in the last weeks, like Dominic (Calvert-Lewin), for example, had missed many training sessions with some slight problems. It was difficult.

"It doesn't take anything away that the boys have played a fantastic season, but, of course, would have wished for a better final game, a better outcome."

For the past two seasons all the Premier League's newly-promoted sides have been relegated immediately but Leeds have finished 14th this term, and Sunderland have qualified for the Europa League.

"I think it's important for the Premier League that you don't have the feeling that it's more or less cemented like in other sports and sometimes abroad where there is no competition," said Farke.

"Once you have a club with the history of Leeds United and you have such a big club with such a huge fanbase, I think it's beneficial for English football (to have them in the Premier League).

"Fingers crossed that West Ham can also come back soon. The Premier League is definitely better with Leeds United and I hope that West Ham will also have better times."