Даниел Фаркийн удирдлага доорх Лидс Юнайтед Премьер лигийн улирлын эхний дөрвөн тоглолтын дараагаар хожигдолгүй цувралаа үргэлжлүүлж, хүснэгтийн гуравдугаар байр руу дэвшлээ.
Тоглолтын эхний хагаст Ао Танакагийн цохилт Льюис Майлигийн хөлөөр дамжин хаалганд орж Лидс Юнайтед тэргүүлж эхэлсэн бол удалгүй Жейден Богл багийнхаа хоёр дахь гоолыг орууллаа. Доминик Калверт-Льюин хагас цагийн өмнөхөн дахин нэг гоолыг нэмснээр эхний хагас Лидс Юнайтедын бүрэн давамгайлал дор өндөрлөв. Хоёрдугаар хагаст Ноа Окафор тоглолтын дөрөв дэх гоолыг оруулж Ньюкасл Юнайтедын эргэн ирэх найдвар тасарсан бөгөөд 90 дэх минутад Базумана Туре нэр төрийн ганц гоолыг оруулжээ.
Ньюкасл Юнайтедын хувьд Нико Гонзалес 19 дэх минутад бэртлийн улмаас сэлгээнд суусан нь тоглолтын эхэн үеийн хүндрэл байв. Матиас Жайсслийн удирдлага доорх Ньюкасл Юнайтед тоглолтын туршид өрсөлдөгчөө хүчтэй шахалтад оруулж чадаагүй бөгөөд 41 дэх минутад Харви Барнсын цохилт л хаалга руу чиглэсэн цорын ганц оролдлого болсон юм.
Энэхүү ялалтын дараа Лидс Юнайтед есдүгээр сарын 20-нд Кристал Пэласыг өөрийн талбайдаа хүлээн авч тоглох бол Ньюкасл Юнайтед есдүгээр сарын 19-нд Халл Ситиг талбайдаа угтан авна.
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Leeds United blew previously unbeaten Newcastle United away in 13 first-half minutes to continue their own fine start to the Premier League season.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin starred for Daniel Farke’s side at Elland Road, scoring once and playing a crucial role in another goal in a 4-1 win which extended their own unbeaten league start and moved them up to third in the table after four matches.
The game was fairly even for the first half an hour but Ao Tanaka’s deflected strike — it went down as an own goal against the unfortunate Lewis Miley — gave Leeds the lead.
Calvert-Lewin thought he had scored his team’s second when he powered a header past Lukas Hornicek — the knee-slide celebration that followed made it clear he was convinced this was his goal — but replays showed the final touch came from Jayden Bogle.
The striker did get on the scoresheet with a neat finish just before half-time, a goal which killed the game as a contest.
Any prospect of a highly unlikely Newcastle comeback ended when Noah Okafor’s precise shot added a fourth just before the hour mark. Bazoumana Toure’s 90th-minute consolation was far too little, far too late.
Beren Cross, Chris Waugh and George Caulkin analyse the main talking points from a night of jubilation for Leeds, but one which will cause real concern for Newcastle.
Is Calvert-Lewin playing himself into the England squad?
Dominic Calvert-Lewin powers in a header but this went down as Jayden Bogle’s goal (Stu Forster/Getty Images)
Calvert-Lewin may have been denied what he thought was his first goal of the night by team-mate Bogle, but it did little to dim his overall performance. Leeds were brilliant as a collective, but in the week Thomas Tuchel picks his next England squad, their No 9 stuck his hand up again.
While Bogle was found to have got the last touch on the ball before it hit the net, the leap, positioning, strength and intent all came from Leeds’ in-form striker. Calvert-Lewin has had better all-round performances since joining the club, but he brought the x-factor at the tip of Monday’s attack to turn home promise into production.
His goal, when it eventually came, was brilliant and right up there with his best goals for the club. The anticipation for the pass, the burst of speed, the turn away from the defender and then the rifled finish were the work of a man in form.
With Ivan Toney and Ollie Watkins out of sight and out of mind in the Middle East, surely the Leeds striker has a chance of being called up again after missing out on World Cup selection.
Beren Cross
A calamity for Newcastle — and Jaissle’s first big test?
As first halves go, this was a doozy for Newcastle, a wonky masterpiece of softness, frailty and mishap in which they were bullied and blitzed by Leeds and which presented Matthias Jaissle with the first big challenge of his tenure.
To put it bluntly, Newcastle could not cope with Farke’s team, who swarmed and pressed all over them, winning their duels and breaking with pace and power. Calvert-Lewin, in particular, was unplayable.
Not everything was self-inflicted. The 19th-minute loss of Nico Gonzalez to a concussion substitution after he was struck in the face by a Gabriel Gudmundsson cross was an early, blameless setback.
The first Leeds goal was also unfortunate, with Tanaka’s shot taking a double deflection off Sean Steur, Nico’s replacement, and then Miley, who was awarded the dubious honour of the own goal.
Yet to say Newcastle did not forge their own luck is an understatement. Their first shot of any sort did not come until the 41st minute, when an effort from Harvey Barnes was blocked and they did not add to it in the opening 45 minutes. They did not threaten Leeds.
Over the same period, the home team had 11 shots, five of which were on target; Hornicek, the Newcastle goalkeeper, was an exception to the general malaise.
The second from Leeds was initiated by an awful forward pass from Steur, which was intercepted. This summed up their half from hell.
Did they improve from that point? Perhaps marginally. Perhaps in the sense that they could not get any worse.
When Sven Botman’s clearing header fell kindly for Okafor to make it four, the game was well and truly up. Dreadful.
George Caulkin
Is third place a fair reflection of Leeds’ start to the season?
This was a night which had a lot of potential for Leeds. It was the first match of the season under the Elland Road lights, the team were keen to respond to their humiliating collapse against Chelsea in the Carabao Cup, the crowd was ready to roar them on and there was an away end to provoke events, too.
But few people could have anticipated the gulf Leeds would put between themselves and Newcastle. The first 30 minutes showed a few signs of what was to come, but the hosts were not cutting through the visitors as they would have liked.
Moves would start and culminate in shots or openings, but there was not a regular turnover of clear-cut chances.
From the moment they took the lead, though, confidence grew in Leeds as it drained from Newcastle. The home side were dominant in every regard, seemingly getting to every loose ball first and then winning every duel.
Bogle’s goal, nicked from under the forehead of Calvert-Lewin, illustrated his bloody-minded determination to repeatedly invade the final third, looking for a goal from wing-back. The third goal was all Calvert-Lewin — anticipation, composure and technique.
Okafor put the cherry on the cake, turning another of Ethan Ampadu’s long throws into a goal. At 4-0, it began creeping up the chart of best-ever performances under Farke.
Leeds go third in the table with this victory. That position is testament to the consistency they have shown in these opening weeks. They battled well on the road at Nottingham Forest and Brighton & Hove Albion, finding a late winner in the former, and weathered a storm here at home to Brentford before fighting back to draw.
There will be trickier tests to come than Newcastle provided here but Leeds have given themselves a dream start to this campaign.
Beren Cross
What happened to Newcastle’s attacking threat?
Matias Fernandez-Pardo managed only one pass into the final third (Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images)
The metrics suggested a result like this was coming. The sample size was only three games, so was certainly not definitive, but Newcastle had been overperforming their expected goals against (xGA) and their expected goals for (xG).
This was the night they really regressed towards that mean — and in alarming fashion, especially defensively. Leeds bullied Newcastle and basically battered the visitors into submission.
But in attack, Newcastle were also toothless.
Having lost Anthony Elanga to injury during the build-up, with Jaissle revealing the winger requires an MRI scan to determine the extent of an injury they “hope” does not rule him out “long term”, Matias Fernandez-Pardo, the €60million (£51.3m, $69.4m) deadline-day signing from Lille, was handed his full debut. During a first half in which Newcastle managed a paltry shot, which came when they were already 2-0 down in the 40th minute, Fernandez-Pardo was peripheral and did not have a single touch in the opposition box, never mind an effort on goal.
The 21-year-old was withdrawn in the 58th minute, having managed just 15 touches and two in the penalty area, with no shots and only one chance created and just one pass into the final third.
The rarely spotted Toure was brought on and did get his first Premier League goal in the dying moments, a reflection of the fact Newcastle did at least offer more of a threat during the final half hour.
Having scored with their last four shots on target across the entirety of their previous two league games, Newcastle’s failure to regularly create clear-cut chances really bit at Elland Road.
In every facet of the game, they were second best to Leeds. And, on this occasion, the end product aligned with the metrics.
Chris Waugh
What next for Leeds?
Sunday, September 20: Crystal Palace (Home), Premier League, 2pm BST, 9am ET
What next for Newcastle?
Saturday, September 19: Hull City (Home), Premier League, 3pm BST, 10am ET
