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Questions about Leeds United's goalscoring circled Daniel Farke after the first four games of the season.
He had wanted more offensive players in the final days of the window and the failure to get any in provoked worry after the boss said it would be "difficult" to stay up with his current attacking options.
That said, ahead of the trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers, Farke said he had "complete faith" in his forwards to find the net. He had set up chance-creation and scoring drills in training that week and was encouraged by what he saw.
Up to that point only one goal had been scored from four league games, and that was from the penalty spot. Lukas Nmecha was the club's top scorer with a single strike for a month.
The 3-1 win at Wolves provided relief. Dominic Calvert-Lewin heading home his maiden goal also saw the club net their first from open play. Anton Stach's bullet free-kick showed Leeds can be a threat from any kind of set-piece, with Joe Rodon showing this too via his corner conversion against Bournemouth.
Noah Okafor was the third man to get on the scoresheet at Wolves, his transition goal before half time important for both his confidence and the team's. Following Rodon's header against Bournemouth, Sean Longstaff - the assist provider - "sliced" his shot in off the post.
That is now six Premier League goals for Leeds, and most pertinently five in their last two matches. The shooting and set-piece training seems to have worked.
What will please Farke is the spreading of the goals. All six league efforts have been scored by different players, with no one talent having to take on the burden of doing it all himself. All areas of the pitch are getting in on the act.
Rodon's goal was his first ever in the Premier League, and only his second for the club, while Longstaff's strike broke his top-flight duck that had lasted since May 2024. When it comes to the number of different scorers, Leeds sit joint third in the Premier League table.
Only Arsenal (eight), Brighton & Hove Albion (eight) and Liverpool (seven) have more. Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, Brentford and Chelsea have also had six different scorers but all have netted more than six overall.
This should come as encouragement for Farke. It means his players, his strikers in particular, still have gears to go. Two of Farke's three centre-forwards have found the net, and all three have at least had chances to score.
Other areas need to continue to chip in. The number of different scorers rises to seven when Jayden Bogle's League Cup goal against Sheffield Wednesday is included. He might get more before the season is over but it is the wingers who need to make a concerted effort to get on the scoresheet.
Out of the five wing options, only Okafor has scored. None have provided assists yet. Injury problems to Daniel James and Wilfried Gnonto have hampered their ability to register goal contributions and Okafor has yet to last a full 90 minutes.
So there are clear areas of improvement across the frontline. Farke said that midfielders also need to help out and so far they have, with two goals.
It is still early in the season and Farke will be satisfied with his array of goal scorers thus far. But more would be nice too. So far out of the six league goal scorers, five have been summer signings who collectively cost £47million between them.
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