Newcastle United are through to the fourth round of the Carabao Cup after seeing off Wimbledon at St James’ Park thanks to a first half spot kick from Fabian Schar.
The victory sets up a meeting with Chelsea later this month for a place in the quarter-finals, with the Blues set to arrive on Tyneside on Wednesday 30th October; in between our trip to Stamford Bridge (Sunday 30th) and home clash with Arsenal on Saturday 2nd November.
Howe has made eight changes from Saturday’s 1-1 draw against Man City, seeing Osula, Almiron, Willock, Longstaff, Livramento, Kelly, Krafth and Dubravka all coming into a side Schar captained. Gordon, Murphy, Bruno, Tonali, Trippier, Hall, Burn and Pope all dropped out of th XI,
It was Osula’s first competitive start following his £10m move from Sheffield United and the 6ft 4′ Dane was presented with the first big chance of the night four minutes in. He raced onto a lovely through ball from Almiron and showed his blistering pace to get in behind, but didn’t get his shot off quickly enough as Wimbledon cleared for a corner.
Wimbledon hadn’t conceded in five of their last six games in all competitions and beat Ipswich on penalties in the last round. They looked well organised and we looked like a side that’d made wholesale changes, taking time to find our rhythm with a few too many stray passes.
After Miggy’s disallowed goal and a decent one-two between Tino and Longstaff that ended in a tame shot from the latter, Barnes cut in from the left and almost curled a trademark effort into the top right corner. He wasn’t the only one to fire just over, with Almiron missing a good chance to break the deadlock after ghosting in from the right. The Paraguayan should’ve hit the target but couldn’t keep it down.
We’d had 85% possession at this stage and finally broke the deadlock on 45 minutes. Almiron was brought down and Schar stepped up to do the rest, slotting home nonchalantly to give us a 1-0 lead going into the…
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Author : Olly Hawkins
Publish date : 2024-10-01 20:48:31
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