{"id":770974,"date":"2026-09-15T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770974\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:00:13","slug":"leeds-4-1-newcastle-is-unplayable-calvert-lewin-in-line-for-england-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770974\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds 4-1 Newcastle: Is ‘unplayable’ Calvert-Lewin in line for England recall?"},"content":{"rendered":"

No side will relish coming up against Calvert-Lewin and this aggressive Leeds<\/a> outfit at Elland Road this season. <\/p>\n

In fact, only Arsenal<\/a> (52), Manchester City<\/a> (50), Manchester United<\/a> (45) and Bournemouth<\/a> (37) have won more Premier League points in 2026 than Leeds United<\/a> (35), with the Whites suffering just a single defeat across their past 13 league matches.<\/p>\n

Yet Newcastle<\/a>‘s implosion was remarkable as a young team were bullied and outfought.<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> had previously made a good start under head coach Matthias Jaissle, following so much change in the summer, and were unbeaten in their opening five games in all competitions before this reality check.<\/p>\n

But they have faced more shots than any other side in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

However clinical Newcastle<\/a> were in the opening weeks of the campaign, they mustered just eight efforts on target against Liverpool<\/a>, Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> and Bournemouth<\/a> before their trip to Elland Road.<\/p>\n

That was a dangerous cocktail going into this game.<\/p>\n

What was most galling, though, was the visitors’ failure to match Leeds<\/a>‘ bite at a raucous Elland Road. <\/p>\n

Jaissle’s side crumbled and conceded three goals in a chastening 14-minute period in the first half.<\/p>\n

It was a night the German manager swore in his post-match news conference to illustrate how low he felt.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to point fingers and point any players out tonight,” he said. “We were not matching as a team the level of intensity, the level of duel behaviours, the level of physicality.<\/p>\n

“This is something we need to bring on the pitch in every match. This is non-negotiable. It should be the basic fundamentals of football.<\/p>\n

“These are young lads. The learning curve needs to be fast.”<\/p>\n

For Calvert-Lewin and Leeds<\/a>, however, this was a night to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No side will relish coming up against Calvert-Lewin and this aggressive Leeds outfit at Elland Road this season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}