Leeds Player Ratings: West Brom 0 - 5 Leeds. An absolute hammering.

Leeds United were almost playing a different sport to West Bromwich Albion as they won 5-0 at the Hawthorns.

Leeds took an early lead through a fairly comedic own goal from Romaine Sawyers. The midfielder played a backpass to Sam Johnstone, but the keeper had moved wide of the goal and Sawyers instead passed it into the goal.

Leeds battered West Brom for the entire first half and Ezgjan Alioski and Jack Harrison both scored excellent goals, Harrison’s coming after an excellent one-two with Patrick Bamford. Leeds topped the half off through a deflected Rodrigo goal following an excellent team move.

Raphinha made it five with a screamer from 20 yards, but the play from the team before it was just as good, an excellent goal to top the game off.

Time now to look at each player and how they performed. As always you can tell me how wrong I am @mightywhitespod or @ThruItAllLUFC on twitter.

STARTING LINEUP

Illan Meslier - Did well with a couple of crosses in the first half. Really poor pass to gift a chance to Grady Diangana, but made a great save to make up for it. 7/10

Stuart Dallas - Excellent piece of defending to cover after Furlong beat Harrison and crossed. Excellent breaks going forward to contribute to attacks. 8/10

Luke Ayling - Not much to do defensively. Brought the ball out excellent both with ball carrying and passing. 8.5/10

Pascal Struijk - Not much to do defensively but his passing out from the back was very good . 8/10

Ezgjan Alioski - Made it 2-0 with a thunderous finish from the edge of the box, a truly great strike. Did everything you would want from him throughout the match. 8.5/10

Kalvin Phillips - Kept possession well and produced an excellent pass to get the move going for the fourth goal. Not his most spectacular game, but did everything well throughout the match. 8/10

Raphinha - Quieter first half compared to those around him barring one piece of skill to send Lee Peltier to the shops before having a good shot saved. Lit up the second half with 20 minutes to go when he cut inside from the right and scored a fantastic goal from 20 yards. 8/10

Mateusz Klich - Got the assist for the Rodrigo goal and looked much more like himself in the first half. Went off early in the second half. 8/10

Rodrigo - Bit of luck with the deflection on his goal to make it 4-0 but the shot was on target and a good one. Much more involved than in the last couple of matches. 8/10

Jack Harrison - Excellent one-two, followed by the turn and finish to make it 3-0. Some good crosses and lots of good attacking involvement. 8.5/10

Patrick Bamford - Good return pass to set up Harrison to make it 3-0. Was involved a lot and dropped off the front well. Just missing his goal but played well. 7.5/10

SUBSTITUTES

Jamie Shackleton (for Klich, 57mins) - Excellent play both to win the ball back, and with his passing in the build up to Leeds’ fifth goal. 7.5/10

Pablo Hernandez (for Rodrigo, 70mins) - Did well in possession, although the match was very one-paced for his time on the pitch. 6.5/10

Helder Costa (for Raphinha, 81mins) - N/A