{"id":474335,"date":"2025-10-04T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474335\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:40:17","slug":"daniel-farke-lets-loose-on-dominic-calvert-lewin-after-leeds-uniteds-struggles-vs-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474335\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Farke lets loose on Dominic Calvert-Lewin after Leeds United’s struggles vs Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daniel Farke has criticised Dominic Calvert-Lewin for his poor finishing in Leeds United\u2019s defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds United<\/a> slipped to a 2-1 defeat to Tottenham<\/a> on Saturday, a result they ultimately deserved but one that could have been so much different.<\/p>\n

Daniel Farke\u2019s<\/a> side came flying out of the traps and ruffled Spurs with their combative challenges and high press.<\/p>\n

However, the visitors still took the lead against the run of play when Mathys Tel\u2019s shot cruelly deflected in off Pascal Struijk.<\/a><\/p>\n

Leeds didn\u2019t let their heads drop, though, and fought back through a goal from Noah Okafor, who left Farke impressed<\/a> with his display.<\/p>\n

The Whites were in the ascendancy but were unable to take advantage before a Gabriel Gudmundsson error<\/a> opened the door for Mohammed Kudus to get the winner.<\/p>\n

The goal knocked the stuffing out of Leeds, who did little in the final half hour to get themselves back level, but should have already put themselves in a better position.<\/p>\n

Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/a> was once again a prime culprit and Farke has called on him to improve.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Farke gives scathing review on Dominic Calvert-Lewin\u2019s performance<\/p>\n

Calvert-Lewin himself called for Leeds to start taking their chances<\/a> or they will continue to be punished after the defeat, though he must look at himself.<\/p>\n

The striker was given a golden chance on a silver plate when Anton Stach<\/a> won the ball back high up the field and sent him through on goal, but his finish was wild and soared over the bar.<\/p>\n

Calvert-Lewin had two more chances when Leeds were on top, but failed to convert either. Shortly after, Spurs retook the lead.<\/p>\n

Speaking in his post-match press conference, Farke said: \u201cHe has scored goals since he started playing. He doesn\u2019t have to overdo it. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe came into two good shooting positions and probably should have scored in the first half. He has to work on like this. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you just concentrate on scoring goals, it will never work. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to make sure you are a good team-mate to work with. You just need a deflected or scruffy goal and the goals will come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Farke did praise his overall performance, his work in Leeds\u2019 goal and ended his comments positively, it does ignore the fact that Calvert-Lewin has already scored a good goal this season which hasn\u2019t eradicated his wastefulness in front of goal.<\/p>\n

He desperately needs to start converting such gilt-edged chances or Leeds will pay the price.<\/p>\n

Daniel Farke praises Brenden Aaronson<\/p>\n

Farke was largely happy with his side\u2019s performance despite the result, and another player who came in for praise was Brenden Aaronson.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fans bemoaned the fact the American wasn\u2019t sold in the summer and have been frustrated with his starting spot in the side.<\/p>\n

Yet, Aaronson has put in bright displays of late on the wing and Saturday\u2019s was his best yet.<\/p>\n

Farke said: \u201cYou can see in the last games that his confidence is growing. <\/p>\n

\u201cToday he was there with what was more or less an assist. It was another decent game from him, not perfect, some things can always be a bit less complicated. His workrate is never in doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Farke has criticised Dominic Calvert-Lewin for his poor finishing in Leeds United\u2019s defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,1385,33761,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-474335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-daniel-farke","10":"tag-dominic-calvert-lewin","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115317835773303820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}