Calvert-Lewin inspires Leeds rout of Newcastle

Leeds United beat Newcastle United 4-1 at Elland Road on Monday, and the result cost Matthias Jaissle his unbeaten record as Newcastle manager. It was his first defeat since taking the job.

Both clubs had arrived at Elland Road level on five points from three games. Newcastle were without the injured Anthony Elanga and never found an answer to the home side's press. Their evening worsened early on when Nico González, hit hard on the head, had to be withdrawn inside the opening minutes.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin was the leading figure in the rout, playing the kind of night that had the Elland Road crowd in full voice. Leeds went ahead through Fortune as much as design: Ao Tanaka's shot took two deflections, the last off Lewis Miley, to wrong-foot Lukas Hornicek. Jayden Bogle's strike was credited as the second after a final touch off a Newcastle defender, and Noah Okafor finished the scoring with a fine effort for 4-1. James Trafford, facing the club that once courted him, made a big save to deny Harvey Barnes and kept his goal otherwise untroubled. Leeds also felt aggrieved that Matias Fernandez-Pardo, making his first start for Newcastle, escaped punishment for a handball in his own penalty area — a moment that barely registered by the finish.

Daniel Farke's side are unbeaten through four league games, with two wins and two draws, and the win lifts them into third, inside the Champions League places. Newcastle stay on five points.

A third-placed finish four games in says little on its own, but a Leeds side playing with this much conviction under Farke will keep talk of a European push alive for a while yet. For Jaissle, the task now is to show the loss at Elland Road was an aberration rather than the pattern of what the Premier League has in store for him.