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Newcastle United’s U21s bounced again from a weekend defeat with an enormous win at Gateshead final night time, serving to them qualify for the quarter-finals of the Nationwide League Cup as Group C winners.
Our younger Mags have been approaching properly beneath new boss Diarmuid O’Carroll, lately recording wins over Chelsea and Leeds earlier than falling to a 4-2 loss at Southampton.
Nevertheless, sat seventh out of 26 golf equipment within the Premier League 2, above the likes of Arsenal and Sunderland, the lads recorded a 4-2 win at north east neighbours Gateshead on Tuesday night time.
There have been a number of acquainted names in motion on the GIS final night time, that includes Aussie expertise Garang Kuol, former Man Metropolis expertise Alfie Harrison, ex-AC Milan centre-back Cathal Heffernan and England youth right-back Leo Shahar.
Kuol has had a tricky time of late, battling accidents and some disastrous mortgage spells, however the 20-year-old scored from the spot after profitable a penalty (watch beneath) and arrange our fourth with some sensible wing play resulting in Darren Palmer’s header.
Harrison confirmed his class with a tidy end early on earlier than Gateshead-born 19-year-old Josh Donaldson latched onto Johny Emerson’s low cross to make it 2-1. Watch all of the targets beneath, additionally that includes a mistake Toon stopper James Taylor received’t need to see once more:
Newcastle Beneath-21s: Taylor, Shahar, Charlton (R. Powell 84), Bailey, Heffernan, C. Thompson, Kuol, Munda (Stanton 71), Donaldson (Neave 63), Alfie Harrison (Finneran 84), Emerson (Palmer 63)
Kuol in all probability wants one other mortgage transfer – hopefully this time the fitting one – to assist his growth at senior stage, but it surely’s good to see the previous A-League star match once more and impressing.
Chatting with the membership’s official website after the win, he stated: “I believed the boys performed properly and it’s a mirrored image of the arduous work the lads put in for weeks. We have to maintain constructing and, hopefully, maintain profitable on this competitors.
“I really feel I may’ve scored extra tonight however I simply need to maintain working and coaching arduous. Hopefully, extra probabilities will come and I discover that consistency of hitting the again of the web.
“It feels superb to be coaching constantly and I really feel this has been an important interval for me, bodily creating.
“As an attacking participant, you’re eager to be scoring or aiding in matches to assist the group and, in the end, that’s my aim. I need to assist the group as a lot as potential and maintain discovering confidence in entrance of aim.”
