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One Newcastle participant specifically caught the attention of Stan Collymore within the Toon’s 3-2 victory over Birmingham Metropolis within the FA Cup.
Eddie Howe’s facet secured development into the fifth spherical in a correct cup tie on Saturday night. The League One facet took a lead inside the primary minute, however we responded with two targets earlier than Tomoki Iwata’s screamer pulled it again to 2-2.
Callum Wilson and Joe Willock have been each on the scoresheet, with the latter netting the second half winner, but it surely was neither of those who acquired the credit score of former Liverpool and Nottingham Forest ahead Collymore.
Collymore watched on as Will Osula grabbed a pair of first half assists in FA Cup motion over the weekend, publicly singling out the Dane for reward.
The previous Reds star thinks the 6ft 4′ Dane has ‘each primary attribute’ a striker wants and is on the good place to develop at Eddie Howe’s Newcastle United.
In a publish on X as he watched Saturday evening’s sport, he stated: ‘Like Newcastle’s Osula rather a lot. Stays to be seen whether or not he’ll be high flight or not however at 21 he’s acquired each primary attribute a striker wants.’
’Bodily, can flip and drive in the direction of purpose, good first contact, completely happy to play dealing with or again to purpose, keen to run in behind and take pictures on. On the proper membership to develop too.’
It was an attention grabbing show from the massive man, who confirmed his tempo from the correct, fast footwork, a formidable first contact and physicality as he drew fouls towards a bodily Birmingham facet who didn’t know how one can deal with him.
Howe is the proper man to supervise the event of Osula. As confirmed already with the likes of Jacob Murphy, Joelinton and Lewis Corridor, the Magazine supervisor is aware of how one can get the very best out of people.
Osula has been used sparingly up to now in his time with Newcastle, restricted primarily to minutes in cup competitions, however his performances towards each Birmingham and Bromley might even see Howe put an growing quantity of religion within the attacker in league motion.
Osula’s pair of assists on Saturday carry his profession document within the FA Cup to a formidable 10 purpose contributions in simply six begins over the past two-and-a-half years.
His purpose towards Bromley in January added to the six he scored throughout spells with Sheffield United and Derby County, additionally bagging one help in his time with the Rams in a 5-0 victory over Torquay.
Not the completed article but with a number of tough edges nonetheless to be smoothed out, the 21-year-old has loads of uncooked attributes and pure means that Howe can hone and develop in an thrilling younger expertise.
