{"id":684914,"date":"2026-01-09T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684914\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:16:10","slug":"calvert-lewin-crowned-pfa-player-of-the-month-after-scorching-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684914\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvert-Lewin crowned PFA Player of the Month after scorching December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Calvert-Lewin has been voted PFA Premier League Player of the Month for December, following a prolific run of form that caught the eye of football fans around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old forward was on form throughout the festive period, finding the net in every league match he featured in during December. Calvert-Lewin struck six goals across five Premier League appearances, spearheading a strong sequence of results against elite opposition.<\/p>\n<p>He began the month by opening the scoring in a 3-1 victory over Chelsea, before continuing his hot streak in a pulsating 3-3 draw with Liverpool. Further goals followed in a hard-earned 1-1 draw away at Brentford, as the striker\u2019s consistency continued to prove decisive.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, Calvert-Lewin became the first player this season to score in six consecutive Premier League matches, underlining his reliability and influence during a demanding run of fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>His impact was felt well beyond Leeds. With six league goals in December, Calvert-Lewin finished the month as the leading goalscorer across Europe\u2019s top-five leagues, a remarkable feat that highlights the scale of his form.<\/p>\n<p>The forward saved one of his finest displays for Crystal Palace, where he scored twice in an emphatic 4-1 win, before rounding off December by getting on the scoresheet once again in a 1-1 draw with Sunderland &#8211; a fitting conclusion to an outstanding month that earned him the backing of fans worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominic Calvert-Lewin has been voted PFA Premier League Player of the Month for December, following a prolific run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115866277207381792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684914","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=684914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}