A Leeds United star has made a personal declaration following his role in Saturday’s brilliant 4-1 win against Crystal Palace.

Whites captain Ethan Ampadu says his Leeds United side are now delivering a club ‘requirement’ - but with a brilliant personal declaration after his own role in his team’s latest success.

Saturday’s hosting of Crystal Palace presented Ampadu’s 93rd league appearance for the Whites and it proved 93rd-time lucky as the midfielder bagged his first Leeds league goal and first ever Premier League strike.

With his men already 2-0 up and en route to a brilliant 4-1 victory, Ampadu showed reactions that flying Whites striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin would have been proud of in latching on to Brenden Aaronson’s ball back into the box following a cleared Anton Stach corner.

The Whites captain then stabbed the ball home past keeper Dean Henderson to spark wild celebrations in a huge moment for both player and team.

Speaking post match to LUTV, though, Ampadu declared that he did not belong in the ‘goalscorers’ lounge and still “owed” much having gone so many league games without scoring.

His strike, however, proved huge in effectively putting Palace out of reach, the skipper delighted with his side’s recent run and the fighting spirit and character now shown which the midfielder says is a requirement at the football club.

Asked how he was feeling after the victory, Ampadu admitted: "Pretty good.

"It was important for us to keep building momentum and that's been our message.

"Probably ever since we had those difficult results, we had like three or four in a row where we lost and everything looked like it was going to be difficult.

“I don't think I belong in that”

"We showed togetherness to get back and showed the fighting spirit and the character that is required to play for Leeds United and then to keep building momentum, it's been a joy at the minute."

Pressed, though, on whether he would be heading for the 'goalscorers' lounge' later, Ampadu declared: "I don't think I belong in that lounge yet.

"I don't think you score one and get yourself in there. I still owe a lot because of the amount of times I have hit it over the bar.

"Anton puts it always on the money to be honest and then we've been caught out a few times of second phases so we know how important that is.

"I'm not sure why I stayed there for so long but I'm glad I did. I saw the ball come in and it's probably a good job that I didn't have much time to think about it. I could just stab it home and thankfully it went in so now I can tell some people that I have scored a goal in the Premier League."