27 mins: Mustoe shot 0-1

Half time: Middlesbrough 1 Newcastle 0

50 mins: Shearer penalty 1-1

Full time: Middlesbrough 1 Newcastle 1

No extra time was played

The shootout:

Shearer scored 1-0
Gordon scored 1-1
Lee scored 2-1
Blackmore scored 2-2
Albert scored 3-2
Mustoe scored 3-3
Pistone scored 4-3
Connor missed 4-3
Ketsbaia missed 4-3
Maddison missed 4-3

NUFC win

Perez - back to back spot kick saves

Kenny Dalglish:
 
"We were better today than yesterday. There are three or four young players who have got an opportunity to push for a place and it's good to see them doing well.

"I thought we showed a great attitude....It was admirable how we came back in the second half, when, for a few players it was their first game.

"Lionel did very well, he must think the English game is all about penalties after all the shootouts he's taken part in (this was his third in four games, following Saturday's shootout against Benfica and his final game for the mackems against Charlton in May).

Reflecting on his team's performance in tournaments:

"We finished bottom at Everton last year and this time so we must be making progress."

Bryan Robson:

To follow
 

Independent newspaper report:

In the North-east, where football courses through the veins like Newcastle Brown on a Saturday night, only a couple of thousand bothered to turn out to see the region's top players contest the third place of the JD Sports Cup, having been denied a place in the final by Portuguese and Italian teams which are considered quite ordinary in their own land.

Eventually Newcastle won on penalties which was a rather tough on Middlesbrough, who had at least managed to score one goal from open play in their two games.

Both managers, though, say that they have learned lessons, but they appear to have had worst fears mostly confirmed rather than unexpected bonuses.

Newcastle's best moment of the first half came in the second minute when Shearer provided a classic headed knock-down for Stephen Glass to volley a 40-yard pass into the path of Paul Dalglish.

Signed from Aberdeen as a wing-back, he moved the ball swiftly and sensibly and in tight midfield areas and when he ran into the penalty area to reach Dalglish's return pass he also showed a surprising turn of pace.

But that was in the 15th minute and Glass faded as Middlesbrough stepped up a gear. In the 19th minute, Neil Maddison created an opening for Paul Gascoigne, who was retired at half-time with a slight strain. Maddison lifted the ball over a dreadfully static defence but Gascoigne side-footed wide from the edge of the area.

This was the first of the Newcastle rearguard's many questionable moments. In the 28th minute, Paul Merson drifted in an innocuous cross, which Alessandro Pistone allowed to bounce, and Robbie Mustoe steered home from a couple of yards.

Newcastle's defence degenerated so much in the second half that Steve Howey and Philippe Albert headed each other and then Pistone tackled Howey. Laurent Charvet a solid Frenchman, was sent on to prevent further embarrassment.

Not that Middlesbrough could boast much, as they will start the season without Gary Pallister, Gianluca Festa and Steve Vickers. Dean Gordon, an pounds 800,000 signing from Crystal Palace worryingly presented the ball to Shearer but at least his partner, Curtis Fleming, was steadfast enough to hold up the England Captain.

But Fleming blotted his copy book in the 50th minute when Dalglish robbed him on the right as he naively bundled him over in the area. Shearer's penalty was not his usual blast but a girlish tickle over the diving Marlon Beresford.

The equaliser consigned the game to drift into the shoot-out where Middlesbrough's two misses handed Newcastle the victory. 

Independent follow-up on Monday Aug 3rd - Gillespie's move to Boro was never completed, with the player revealing some years later that he'd failed his medical.

Boro released a statement before yesterday's JD Sports Cup third place play-off between the clubs stating: "Middlesbrough Football Club has signed Keith Gillespie from Newcastle, subject to the player passing a medical. Gillespie joins Middlesbrough having agreed a five-year contract and is expected to train with his new team-mates on Tuesday."

But the Newcastle manager, Kenny Dalglish, and the Boro manager, Bryan Robson, denied the deal had been completed. Dalglish said: "You are telling me something I never knew," referring to the statement. "I knew the bid for Keith was acceptable but I never knew what had happened after that and neither did Bryan Robson."

He added: "Obviously, if a player is involved coming in or going out, you'd think the manager would be involved in the decision. I was aware of the offer but you cannot sign a player before he's had his medical. If it has gone through, then we are disappointed because I haven't had a chance to speak to Keith and this isn't right. Movement is part and parcel of football but there's a way to do things and it's wrong if I haven't spoken to the player. That's me being honest and open about it."

Robson also chose his words carefully, when he said: "It is not 100 per cent tied up, Keith has still got a medical to go through. We have agreed a fee with Newcastle but there are other things to sort out. Everyone has jumped the gun, even though personal terms have been agreed."

Robson admitted he had made a move for Gillespie 18 months ago but was then told the player was not available. Now it is second time lucky.

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