ELLAND ROAD — A minute before half-time, almost all of Elland Road had three letters on its lips: D-C-L.
They mixed it up shortly after, to give him the full treatment: doo doo doo, Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Leeds United haven’t had a striker score 20 goals in a season since Chris Wood a decade ago and that was in the Championship. Step forward the new king of Leeds United?
This Friday, Thomas Tuchel will name his England squad and Calvert-Lewin must be a certain pick. Ollie Watkins and Ivan Toney have sloped off to Saudi Arabia for easy goals and easier money. Calvert-Lewin has rebuilt his career in a more wholesome way. Few deserve it more.
Leeds are soaring. Last season, Daniel Farke reinvented a team by making it big, bold and barely caring about beauty. The general principles of that movement remain – and Leeds had only scored 16 goals in their previous 15 league games before Monday evening – but they are now adding smart attacking patterns that maximise the impact of the hard work.
That makes Leeds dangerous because what can they not do? The central defenders head and kick when required. The full-backs overlap.
"He just cannot stop scoring at Elland Road" Dominic Calvert-Lewin makes it 2-0 to Leeds! pic.twitter.com/Pv1TEpc5Qj
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) September 14, 2026The central midfielders hound you. The wide players drive at you with the ball. The bench is deeper than ever before – on Monday it had four new signings and five who were all regulars last season.
And then, when all that work is done, the centre-forward in the form of his life does the rest. We have always known that Calvert-Lewin was capable in the air, could hold up the ball and would run the channels if asked.
But it’s the way in which Calvert-Lewin is a magnet for penalty-box danger that has been most transformative because of how it has happened. He’s actually taking fewer shots at Leeds than during almost all of his Everton career. He’s less creative too.
But when his team needs him, Calvert-Lewin is there. Farke has refined him and by asking him to do less work has probably eased the physical burden too.
It is worth reflecting upon just how extraordinary this transformation is. Before joining Leeds last summer, Calvert-Lewin had made 75 Premier League starts in four seasons thanks to a series of injuries that eventually impacted his form to the extent that Toffees supporters were not upset by his departure.
Since his debut, Calvert-Lewin has missed a single Premier League match – through illness in February – and scored 15 league goals. He was denied a 16th on Monday only because his first-half header glanced off teammate Jayden Bogle and thus acted as an inadvertent assist.
Newcastle played their part by barely playing at all. The loss of Anthony Elanga before the game and Nico Gonzalez during it was unfortunate but everything else was caused by lack of individual application or obvious tactical plan.
It is all very well Matthias Jaissle shouting the word “vertical” to admiring glances, but it doesn’t make much difference when you get trampled all over in midfield.
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Daniel Storey: Something has gone terribly right at Leeds United The Score: Man Utd’s Achilles heel, Liverpool are jumpy and Palace’s big problemThis was more clueless and chaotic than anything in Eddie Howe’s last season. As Elland Road reminded the away end: “All that money and you’re… not very good”. You will forgive the rough translation.
The Gonzalez concussion forced the introduction of Sean Steur, 18 years old and simply not yet ready for the Premier League on this evidence. He misplaced a pass for Leeds’ second goal, was constantly pressurised with his back to goal. That is the problem with buying so many young players: there is insufficient experience and maturity around them.
Maturity is the one thing Leeds do not lack. This season is still young, but they have refined their strengths and grown stronger. On this evidence, do not discount a serious push for European football. All led by one of the best free transfers in Premier League history.
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