Michael Keane helps sink Leeds to give Frank Lampard first Everton league win

For only the second time in five gruelling months Everton felt the release of a Premier League victory. A superb first-half display and disciplined second delivered three vital points for Frank Lampard, as his new team cast off their insecurities to deliver a comprehensive beating of Leeds.

Séamus Coleman, leading by example, Michael Keane and Anthony Gordon scored the goals that gave Lampard his first league win as Everton manager and firm evidence of his players’ ability to haul themselves away from relegation danger, providing this level is maintained. Marcelo Bielsa’s side were dominated throughout and, despite flashes of inspiration from Rodrigo, rarely threatened to repeat their stirring recovery at Aston Villa in midweek.

Lampard’s commitment to attack was evident for the second successive Saturday at Goodison but this was an impressive demonstration of his wider managerial skills. The new Everton manager was without seven first-team players, including two leading central defenders and the club’s only recognised left-back in Vitalii Mykolenko. He responded by abandoning his early 3-4-3 system and handing Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Donny van de Beek, Jonjoe Kenny and Alex Iwobi their first starts of his reign. All four shone in a fine collective performance.

Kenny nullified Raphinha and provided an attacking threat as a makeshift left-back. The fit-again Calvert-Lewin led the line with power, aggression and a graceful touch. Van de Beek brought vision and authority to central midfield, igniting a much-improved display from Allan alongside him in the process, while the often-maligned Iwobi was a potent threat on the right wing. Bielsa’s more defensive approach, with the Leeds manager reverting to a five-man rearguard,