Leeds United host Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United in their next Sky Bet Championship fixture at Elland Road.
Attentions quickly turn back to club football after the international break, with the two promotion contenders doing battle under the lights in LS11.
Two weeks since the Whites’ previous outing, the squad are itching to be back out there on the field, according to defender Jayden Bogle.
“The mood has been just wanting to get back into the games,” the 24-year-old told LUTV. “Obviously, it is nice to have a break, have a rest, but the feeling around the place is to get back into the games and get going again.
“Sunderland was a tough game, but I think we have done well. Again, away from home, a tough place to go, but I thought we had done well and deserved to win the game. Obviously, a frustrating ending to the game, but we will use that going into the next games as that sort of feeling to get right through to the end.
“I think the main thing is to keep demanding more from each other. I am demanding more from myself each game. I think that is the mentality you need to have when you are going into these games because each game is going to be tough and each game you are going to have to defend really well.
“I have really enjoyed it,” Bogle explained of his time with Leeds so far. “As I have said before, it is a fantastic club. The mentality of the club and everyone around it and the direction they want to go in is fantastic. And the standards that everyone sets themselves individually and as a whole as well is something to be proud of.
“Whether people are starting or coming off the bench or getting opportunities through injuries, whatever it may be, I think everyone is ready. And again, that is the mentality and the standards that everyone sets themselves. I think everyone that has come in has stepped up and it is important to keep doing that.”
Friday’s match will see Bogle face his former employers for the first time, having made the switch from Bramall Lane to Elland Road in the summer.
“It will be an interesting one,” he added. “But I think we just need to make sure that we prepare well and, as I said before, use that fire from the last game going into this game to do the right job.
“It will be tough, just like when any team comes to Elland Road, they try and make it tough and difficult for us. But I think the main thing for us is to focus on ourselves and apply ourselves in the right way, work hard over the next few days in training and approach the game in the right way.”
The fixture against Sheffield United will also allow football to remember former Blades defender George Baldock, who tragically passed away aged 31 last week.
Speaking about his former teammate, Bogle said: “It has just stunned everybody with what went on.
“I think before the game, [I will] think about the good times everyone had with him, he was an amazing person, a fantastic player as well, and the way he helped people, new players coming into the club, just the type of person he was, he was really welcoming.
“He was a fantastic guy, a fantastic player, and it is just devastating news for his family, who I send my dearest condolences to.”