Newcastle strengthened their European hopes with another captivating win over Spurs as Eddie Howe got it spot on and his player delivered in an electric display at St James’ Park.
A quickfire double from Isak and Anthony Gordon around the half hour mark sent the Toon 2-0 up. Isak completed his brace five minutes into the second half and Schar added a cherry on top three minutes from full time.
The result comes amid yet more injury troubles on Tyneside with Eddie Howe forced to field a makeshift defence including Murphy at right back and Krafth at centre half.
After the game began with a cup-tie end-to-end feeling, Newcastle grew in confidence and were ahead after 30 minutes. Bruno, under pressure, found a fantastic ball to Gordon who beat his defender and slipped in Isak.
Talking of slipping, that’s exactly what van de Ven did, as Isak brought the ball round him, leaving him on the floor. Isak smashed it past the Spurs keeper for the lead.
Two minutes later, we were ahead again. And van de Ven was on his backside again. This time Gordon got on the end of a poor looped back pass from Pedro Porro, rounding the Dutch centre half to pick his spot in the back of the net.
Newcastle attacked the second half with the intensity that saw us grab our first half double. The third, and Isak’s second, came five minutes after the break. Another superb ball from Bruno beat Spurs’ very high line and Isak, who started his run from his own half, was clear through to score his brace.
Spurs never really looked like scoring and squandered a handful of chances through Timo Werner.
The Toon punished Spurs again with a corner whipped to the far corner of the six-yard-box by Gordon. Schar rose to meet it and thumped the ball home with his head. It was 4-0 and we had hammered Spurs at home again. Our set pieces caused Spurs problems all afternoon.
It felt again like the resurgence of the Newcastle of last season. We were defensively solid and resolute. Our pressing was intense…
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Author : Joshua Nichol
Publish date : 2024-04-13 14:07:53
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