Premier League:
Tyne Bridge!

Chelsea  0  Newcastle  1

Newcastle ended their long wait for victory at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, Anthony Gordon's first half goal and some resolute defending giving Eddie Howe's side a first success here since Papiss Cisse's famous brace in 2012.

Thirty previous visits in the Premier League had harvested just 10 points from a possible 90 before today, but when Tino Livramento's pass down the centre of the field put Joe Willock through on goal on 18 minutes, he opted to play in Gordon to tap the ball beyond Robert Sanchez.

Taking the lead here isn't completely unheard of, but retaining a clean sheet was a rather different matter - no less than fourteen failures in league and cup following Tim Krul's contribution to that epic night over 13 years ago.

Despite starting a Premier League game for the first time under Eddie Howe minus Bruno Guimaraes, Joelinton and Sandro Tonali though, United made the most of a home display that had disgruntled fans heading to the exits.

Reece James hit a post with a free-kick from similar range to that which beat Aaron Ramsdale at Gallowgate back in December, with substitute Liam Delap also going close.

The home side stuttered and spluttered with talisman Cole Palmer less than red hot; Joao Pedro contributing little on what became the first time in his career that he finished on the losing side in a meeting with the Magpies.

Wesley Fofana headed over and Palmer lashed a shot wide before Gordon's goal and Ramsdale saved from Palmer before Jacob Ramsey saw a deflected shot pushed away.

After the break, Ramsdale denied Delap and then a Gordon penalty shout was rightly ruled out after he intercepted the ball in the box before taking a tumble.

A foul on Malick Thiaw by James in the home box during the first half was far more credible, but referee Paul Tierney was unmoved and VAR upheld his view - although a pitchside review had seemed a reasonable shout.

Gordon's shot was saved in the 69th minute then Delap headed over the bar before Trevoh Chalobah headed wide after Ramsdale had missed a cross from the left.

Another Gordon shot was easily saved and Delap headed wide again before James came within inches of an equaliser in the third minute of added time, hitting the foot of the post from a free-kick 25 yards out.

Pedro headed onto the roof of the net near the end of eight added minutes, before the full-time whistle was greeted with relief and delight by the Toon travellers.

The win took United back into the top half of the table, four places above the mackems who lost at home to Brighton.

Full match report to follow.

Team: Ramsdale, Livramento, Thiaw, Botman, Hall, Willock (Burn 76), Ramsey, J.Murphy (Elanga 78), Barnes, Woltemade (Joelinton 67), Gordon.
Subs n/u: Pope, Ruddy, Trippier, A.Murphy, Osula, Wissa.

Booked: Ramsdale, Hall.

Goals: Gordon 18.

CFC: Sanchez, Gusto (Delap 46), Fofana (Hato 83), Chalobah, Cucurella, James, Caicedo (Lavia 61), Palmer, Fernandez, Garnacho, Joao Pedro.
Subs n/u: Sharman-Lowe, Adarabioyo, Andrey Santos, Badiashile, Guiu, Sarr.

Booked: Fofana, Caicedo.

Referee: Paul Tierney - first sighting of the Wigan whistler since handling our 1-4 PL loss at Arsenal in February 2024.

VAR: Michael Salisbury

Crowd: 39,587 including 3,083 jubilant Mags.

Eddie Howe said:

"As I said on Friday, I wasn't aware the record was that bad here for us, so it's nice to end that and get the win on so many levels today.

"That was such an important victory with what we have coming up ahead this week with the two massive games (Barcelona and the mackems).

"It's great to go into those games with the good feeling that we have. And I thought the mentality, the effort today was very, very good. You mentioned the mentality and effort.

"It gives us huge belief. I think we needed to win today to give us any chance of winning in Barcelona and progressing through the Champions League. It's such a difficult game, but you need that confidence that winning gives you.

"That's back-to-back wins in the Premier League now, which is so important. We'll be in a better place for today and now all eyes are on Barcelona.

"I think our defensive mentality was key. We were really good off the ball today, in every respect. We rode our luck at times in the second half, but with the amount of times we've been hurt this season I thought we deserved it.

"It was an excellent goal and we were very much in the game. It was a great pass from Tino (Livramento) to slip in Joe Willock and very unselfish from Joe to pick out Anthony (Gordon).

"It's our first clean sheet in a long time. It's been a difficult spell for us. We've defended really well at times. We know it's in there, it's just about bringing it all together.

"When you make changes from the outside, there's maybe more noise than there should be. I thought Nick Woltemade was excellent. Jacob Murphy was outstanding.

"When you have players with the experience of Joelinton and Dan Burn to bring on, it's huge."

On his side's improved away form:

"I think, of course, we've analysed our away form almost as much as you (journalists) have, I think. I'd probably say our athleticism's returned.

"I think we've had really, really good physical returns on the road recently, and I think that's helped our results. I think that's always been the hallmark of what we've done over the years.

"We try to really compete athletically. I think you have to away from home, and today I thought our quick players really sprinted and gave them problems, so I'd say that's probably been the biggest difference.”

On Sandro Tonali:

"He was feeling unwell after training yesterday. It quickly became apparent that he would not be able to travel.

"Fingers crossed it follows a similar pattern with the other illnesses we've had and it is a quick recovery.

"There has been something going around now for two or three weeks in the squad and hopefully this is the same."

Stats:

The Magpies collected their fourth PL away win of the season, following victories at Everton, Burnley and Spurs.

They also ended a run of 14 successive league and cup games without keeping a clean sheet since a 3-0 CL home win over PSV Eindhoven in January.

Lewis Hall reached a half century of PL starts for the club.

Anthony Gordon scored his fifth PL goal of the season and the 16th in all club competitions. He has 23 PL goals for Newcastle, moving one ahead of Jacob Murphy, drawing level with Kieron Dyer and sitting one behind Joelinton.

NUFC after 30 games - last 10 PL seasons:

2015/16 25 points, 19th
2017/18 32 points, 13th
2018/19 34 points, 13th
2019/20 38 points, 13th
2020/21 29 points, 17th
2021/22 31 points, 15th
2022/23 56 points, 4th
2023/24 44 points, 8th
2024/25 53 points, 5th
2025/26 42 points, 9th

Newcastle registered only their third win in 38 league and cup visits to Stamford Bridge in the Premier League era - two in the PL and one in the League Cup.

Today was only their third clean sheet during that period.

Magpies @ Stamford Bridge - PL era:

Update: in response to queries about how PDFs are shown to gain access to the game, NUFC said on Friday that: "you will be able to use your PDF ticket on your mobile device."

From NUFC, Thursday:

Please be advised that we are still awaiting the tickets from FC Barcelona and do not expect to receive these until Monday.

Once the tickets have been provided to us, we will begin issuing the PDF tickets as quickly as possible.

If you have not received your ticket by midday on Tuesday, 17th March, please contact the Box Office by email using the subject line:

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Please ensure that you include your supporter number within the email so we can assist you promptly, and please also check that the email address linked to your account is correct and up to date.

PL2:
Playoff hopes boosted

Having returned to winning days in last Saturday's derby match, United U18s were in league action today, visiting Nottingham Forest on Saturday afternoon.

And they continued their winning ways with a shot by Sam Pinnington five minutes into added time that left the young Magpies third in the table behind the two Manchester sides.

Team: Dowell, Tika-Lemba, Bloomer, Epia, Johnson (Seldon 57), Morgan (Ndiweni 84), Pinnington, Callaghan (Patterson 84), Wooster, Gilligan (Hutchison 77), Ferreira.
Sub n/u: Holland.

Booked: Bloomer

Update:
DRC call on Wissa

On pre-sale from Magpin here is this brand-new badge featuring United's "great Dane", William Osula.

We had two to give away and asked which team Osula scored his first senior Newcastle goal against.

Most folks recalled that it was Bromley (in the FA Cup) and badges will be going to Richard Gates and Andy Virgo.

Update: Tickets are now on sale to those who previously applied holding between 15 and 27 points. Closing date is Mon 16.03.2026 at 9am or early if all are sold.

Newcastle's PL visit to Selhurst Park remains subject to alteration from the advertised 3pm KO on Sat 11.04.2026.

Were Palace to win their UEFA Conference League 16 tie versus AEK Larnaca they'd play a Quarter-final first leg on Thu 09.04.2026.

The first leg at Selhurst Park ended 0-0, with the second leg in Cyprus on Thu 19.03.2026.

That would then see their PL home game against the Magpies delayed 24 hours to Sun 12.04.2026 - as has happened for Palace's game against Leeds this weekend*.

(*That's categorised as a PL displaced fixture, meaning that it's a 2pm KO, televised live on Sky Sports. Newcastle's game would be similarly categorised if moved). 

In the event that Newcastle were to defeat Barcelona in the Champions League, the scheduling of a Quarter-final second leg on Tue 14.04.2026 or Wed 15.04.2026 would also be a factor in when the Palace game is played. That's because UEFA take no account of domestic fixture scheduling when deciding the day that Champions League ties are played.

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Round of 16 first leg results:

Tue 17.03.2026:
Arsenal (1) v Bayer Leverkusen (1)
Chelsea (2) v PSG (5)
Manchester City (0) V Real Madrid (3)
Sporting Lisbon (0) v Bodo/Glimt (3)

Wed 18.03.2026:
Barcelona (1) v Newcastle (1)
Bayern Munich (6) v Atalanta (1)
Liverpool (0) v Galatasaray (1)
Spurs (2) v Atletico Madrid (5)

Stats: 

This is Newcastle's 20th competitive cup game of the season (12 in CL, five in CC, 3 in FAC) the most in any season; one more than the 19 in 2004/05 and 2006/07.

This will be the seventh meeting of the two clubs, all coming in the Champions League:

1997/98 won 3-2 (h) Asprilla 3
1997/98 lost 0-1 (a)
2002/03 lost 1-3 (a) Sh.Ameobi
2002/03 lost 0-2 (h)
2025/26 lost 1-2 (h) Gordon
2025/26 drew 1-1 (h) Barnes

Toon in Spain - competitive games:

1968/69 Real Zaragoza (a) lost 2-3 (FC)
1994/95 Atletico Bilbao (a) lost 0-1 (UE)
1997/98 Barcelona (a) won 0-1 (CL)
2002/03 Barcelona (a) lost 1-3 (CL)
2003/04 Real Mallorca (a) won 3-0 (UE)
2005/06 Deportivo La Coruna (a) lost 1-2 (IT)

2026/27:
New season, new prices