Daniel Farke watched his Leeds United team claw their way back from 2-0 down at Chelsea and leave with a 2-2 draw.

Things looked bleak at first. Joao Pedro put Chelsea ahead in the first half, and Cole Palmer buried a penalty after the break. Chelsea controlled the game, and honestly, it felt like they were just cruising to a win.

But then Leeds woke up. In the space of six minutes, everything flipped. First, Moises Caicedo fouled Jayden Bogle in the box, and Lukas Nmecha stepped up and smashed home the penalty. Suddenly, Leeds had hope. Next, Bogle just wouldn’t quit; he battled his way into the box, somehow got the ball to Noah Okafor, and Okafor tapped in the equaliser.

“Proper night of football,” Farke said afterwards, still buzzing. “Great night for everyone with Leeds United. I’m so proud of my players; they deserve a lot of praise.

Chelsea are flying at the moment, winning in the Premier League, winning in the Champions League. And we come here as a newly promoted side, missing some key guys – Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Anton Stach, and Pascal Struijk – really the backbone of our team. Some players were only just back from injury, too.

“With Chelsea’s quality, going 2-0 down can mean a long, ugly night. But this team doesn’t give up. We believe we can always fight back.”

Farke admitted that going 2-0 down was partly Leeds’ own fault. He couldn’t figure out why Jaka Bijol shoved Joao Pedro in the box; he thought the penalty was soft, but still, it was a needless risk. Even after those mistakes, Farke felt his team earned the point with their mentality. Chelsea pushed late, but Leeds hung on.

Okafor’s equaliser followed his goal against Nottingham Forest last weekend, probably his best showing for Leeds so far. Farke said it wasn’t easy to leave him out of the starting lineup at Chelsea, but he had his reasons.

“It was tough, but I had to use my head, not my heart,” he explained.

“Noah needs a bit longer to recover because of his physical style. We figured our wingers would have to do a ton of defensive work, and honestly, that’s not their biggest strength.

“We planned to keep things tight, adjust our formation as the match went on, and throw more attackers on late. We didn’t plan to be 2-0 down, but the idea was always to go for it in the last 20 or 30 minutes. Credit to the players; they earned a massive point tonight.”

Eddie Howe didn’t mince words on Monday; he said he’d walk away from Newcastle if he stopped believing he was the right guy for the job.

Maybe Thomas Frank should take a hint. Still, with Tottenham now facing a 12-day break before the north London derby against Arsenal on February 22, he might just hang on for a bit longer.

Newcastle did the damage with goals from Malick Thiaw and Jacob Ramsey, one in each half. Archie Grey had managed to equalise for Spurs, but the South Stand still filled the air with chants for fan-favourite Mauricio Pochettino.

The home crowd had clearly had enough. They called for Frank’s head all night. Honestly, it’s time for Tottenham to put Frank out of his misery. The Europa League winners desperately need a change before they get sucked into the relegation battle.

Tottenham haven’t won a Premier League game in 20,26 not a single one. That’s eight matches without a victory. Watching them lately, you can’t say they’re too good or too big to go down.

Newcastle had only picked up two wins from their previous 15 away games in the league, but this one felt over from the start.

Frank looked like a beaten man, trudging off the pitch in the rain. Whatever comes next, it’s wild that he didn’t get real support in the January transfer window.

Spurs went into this game missing 11 first-team players, 10 injured, plus their captain, Cristian Romero, suspended. Now they’ve also lost Wilson Odobert to what looked like a nasty knee problem.

You could see the nerves right away. Anthony Elanga’s early corner bounced off Radu Dragusin’s knee and just missed the bar. Not long after, Guglielmo Vicario flapped at a high ball he should’ve caught, and the boos started.

The pain didn’t end there. Newcastle piled on nine corners in the first 30 minutes. Tottenham, outside of a weak penalty shout from Dominic Solanke, spent most of the first half pinned inside their own half. Pape Matar Sarr even picked up a yellow for diving, just to make matters worse.

Joe Willock thought he’d opened the scoring, but VAR ruled it out for offside. That didn’t save Sp.urs Newcastle went ahead soon after. Thiaw met Willock’s cross, Vicario saved the header, but Thiaw pounced on the rebound while Tottenham’s defenders just pointed fingers at each other.

Spurs survived an early storm in the second half. Elanga had two penalty shouts turned away, then Archie Grey put Tottenham level—Xavi Simons floated a corner to the back post, Sarr nodded it across, and Grey finished it off.

But hope didn’t last. Seconds after Conor Gallagher blew a golden counter-attack, Ramsey restored Newcastle’s lead with a smooth finish, thanks to some slick work from Anthony Gordon.

Tottenham never looked like they had the quality or belief to come back, even though Micky van de Ven had a golden chance to steal a point right at the end and blasted it over.

Here’s a wild stat: in the last 14 months, Tottenham have won more games in Europe (12 out of 18) than they have in the Premier League (11 out of 49).

At this point, it would be astonishing if Vinai Venkatesham didn’t make a change. Who’d want to take on this mess, though? That’s anyone’s guess.