Speaking following his side had earned a point against Crystal Palace after playing the entirety of the second half with 10 men, Leeds United manager Daniel Farke felt his players showed great heart to come away with a draw.

The Whites enjoyed the better of play until Gabriel Gudmundsson’s controversial red card on the stroke of half time and dug deep to preserve the clean sheet after the break.

“First of all, I have to give a huge lot of compliments to my players, to my boys because they just proved why I would trust in my boys with my life,” the boss told the media after the full-time whistle.

“I can always count on them. We are perhaps not perfect and flawless, otherwise we would have been in the lead at half time.

“But how we adapted to the strange circumstances also in the second half, to show such a mentality and such a unity, we didn’t give any chances away.

“I think it was one of the rare games where the team who has to play for such a long period in underload even had more expected goals than the home team.

“We kept a clean sheet. Even in the second half we were sometimes closer to score the winning goal. I am just proud of this performance and how united we were today again.

“In the first half I think we had the chances and, not just a penalty, also Dominic [Calvert-Lewin] before two good chances, Brenden Aaronson a good chance.

“Pretty sure, normally you should be in lead at halftime and also pretty sure that if we would have been allowed to finish the game or to play for more with 11 players, we would have won the game.

“So for that yes there is a slight disappointment that it was not to be today but on the other hand under these circumstances, a priceless point.

“Also, really good for the confidence, our travel away here with a clean sheet, a valuable point, another clean sheet. A bit closer to what we want to achieve and to that definitely also a good day for us.”