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Bournemouth (a) Premier League
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Date: Wednesday 1st July 2020, 6.00pm. Live on Sky Sports/Sky One/Pick Venue: Vitality Stadium.
Conditions: Unimpeded. |
No programme
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Bournemouth |
Newcastle |
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1 - 4 |
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| Half time: | 0 - 2 | |
| Score Sheet: | ||
(90+4) Gosling |
Gayle (5)
S.Longstaff (30) Almiron (57) Lazaro (77) |
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Teams |
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Ramsdale Smith S.Cook Ake Kelly Brooks Billing Lerma Groeneveld King Solanke |
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Dubravka Manquillo Lascelles Fernandez Krafth S.Longstaff Shelvey Bentaleb Saint-Maximin Gayle Joelinton |
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(46) L.Cook
for Billing (62) Wilson for Brooks (62) Stanislas for Groeneveld (75) Gosling for Lerma (80) Mepham for S.Cook |
Almiron for S.Longstaff (33) Carroll for Gayle (62) Lazaro for Saint-Maximin (62) Hayden for Joelinton (73) Yedlin for Manquillo (73) |
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| Subs not used: | ||
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Boruc Rico Stacey Surridge |
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Darlow Rose Schar Ritchie |
| Bookings: | ||
Kelly
Ake |
None |
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| Dismissals: | ||
| None | None | |
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Referee:
Kevin Friend - who avoided lockdown in his
native Leicestershire for a third game of the season
involving United. |
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Attendance:
Behind closed doors. |
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Goals |
5 mins Some loose passing by the home side outside their own box was seized on by Sean Longstaff who won the ball off Jefferson Lerma. Allan Saint-Maximin played in Dwight Gayle who had time to steady himself and fire into the far corner of the goal in front of the Ted McDougall Stand. 1-0
30 mins
Javier Manquillo charged
into the area and surprisingly laid the ball to his left rather than shoot.
The attack seemed to break down but Saint-Maximin's trickery took him past
three defenders to the left byline and his expert pull-back teed up Sean Longstaff to
fire into the top of the net.
ASM claimed after the game he had told
"Longy" to be waiting for exactly that
sort of a pass.
2-0
Half time: Cherries 0 Magpies 2
57 mins Saint-Maximin slotted a perfect pass through for substitute Miguel Almiron to run towards the box. Miggy took the ball in his stride before floating a lovely effort into the far corner of the net with his right foot. 3-0
77 mins Another forward foray saw Jonjo Shelvey release Valentino Lazaro who was just onside. The Austrian made his way into the box before firing an unstoppable shot past Aaron Ramsdale. 4-0
90+4 mins Nathan Ake got goal side of his marker Andy Carroll to nod a Junior Stanislas free-kick across goal, allowing Dan Gosling beat Emil Krafth and poke the ball in from close range. 4-1
Full time: Cherries 1 Magpies 4
We Said |
Steve Bruce:
"Some of the football we
played was arguably the best since I've been at the club. Fair play
to the players, the ones that came in brought a freshness to us,
that energy.
"I was delighted with how we played except for how things ended, but
I'll forgive them for that!
"Saint-Maximin is
a joy to watch at the moment. He was a constant threat, played very,
very well and he is providing that end product which we need.
He has wonderful talent. Every time I go to a ground and people
haven't seen him play, they always say what a talent he is. He can
only get better.
"I felt we had lost that cutting
edge, creating an opportunity to try to win a match. We enjoyed
playing, that was pretty evident. There was a certain cutting edge
to them. Long may it continue.
"If we can get into the top 10 that would be a great
achievement after a lot of people wrote me and the players off.
"But even at my age that just makes me roll my sleeves up and show
them. It was a bit disrespectful at times.
"It makes you work harder and spurs you on. I’m delighted to manage
this great club.”
They Said |
Eddie Howe said:
"When you’re in our position looking for a lift, it’s a hammer blow
the other way (to concede so early in the game). We believed the
team was in a good place: it’s a bit of a head-scratcher for us at the
moment.
"It's tough at the moment to sit here and
pick out the positives. We know the situation we're in is difficult.
"We know tonight was not a good night. I think me sitting here and
saying otherwise would be foolish, but I do still believe we can get out of the position we are in.
'I do still believe in the players and the group we have, I have no
doubt about that. But we have to take tonight on the chin.
"I don't doubt that (the players' effort). It's very easy from the
outside to think differently, especially with the manner of the games at
the moment, the lack of a crowd.
"I can see close at hand what it means to the players. How much they are
hurting. Tonight wasn't pretty but I can assure everybody it wasn't through a
lack of effort.
"We have to find answers quickly, we
have a tough run of fixtures to come but I have no doubts we can turn
this around."
Stats |
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2019/20 won 4-1 Gayle, S.Longstaff, Almiron, Lazaro
Newcastle remain unbeaten here in the top flight, with two victories and two draws from
four visits.
The Magpies have taken the lead on all four of those games, leading
either by 1-0 or 2-0 at the interval. 2019/20 Bournemouth 4-1
One has to go back to January 2018 to find the last time that
we recorded successive PL away wins before tonight (West Ham 3-2
then Stoke City 1-0). 2017/18: 38 points, 10th (scored 33, conceded 41)
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Waffle |
The Geordie Dancer
The Dorset coastline may currently be
congested, but United found plenty of room to roam in Bournemouth on
Wednesday across a nearby grassed area...
The Magpies recovered from their FA Cup exit three days earlier to
score four Premier League goals for the first time this season and
pass the 40 point barrier with a routine success at the Vitality
Stadium.
First half efforts from Dwight Gayle and Sean Longstaff left the
orange-clad visitors in total control, before substitutes Miguel
Almiron and Valentino Lazaro bruised the Cherries further in an
equally one-sided second half.
The only blemish for Steve Bruce's side was surrendering a clean
sheet in second half added time, SJP old boy Dan Gosling bundling
the ball home with the only effort that the hosts got on target all
night.
Our hectic schedule made rotation advisable and five new faces
appeared from Sunday: messrs Rose, Schar, Hayden, Almiron and
Carroll all benched in favour of Krafth, Bentaleb, Shelvey,
Joelinton and Gayle.
There was talk of Allan Saint-Maximin being rested after a
subdued FA Cup game but he kept his place here and was soon back to
his exhilarating best.
Within five minutes of the start he'd slotted a pass into the box
for Gayle to fire home after Longstaff had caught Jefferson Lerma
idling on the ball.
And by the half hour the Frenchman had let the home defence a dance
on the opposite flank, swaying to the left hand byline before
pulling the ball back for Longstaff to net with a rising left
footer.
The second scorer was soon forced off with what looked like a pulled
muscle, having got up after two previous hefty tackles, and was
replaced by Almiron.
That added another variable to what was almost a rotating front four
of him, Gayle, Saint-Maximin and Joelinton - the latter who was in a
wide role here.
A shapeless and disheartened home side were playing like they were
already in the Championship and allowed United to have unprecedented
levels of possession.
Having come from behind here to deny us victory on our two most
recent visits, a response from Bournemouth after the restart was
inevitable - and they did have the ball in the net after just 30
seconds.
Dominic Solanke's shot came back off the goal frame and was
converted by Josh King, but he was rightly ruled offside and with
that decision went his side's hopes of salvaging anything from this
game.
Soon after Saint-Maximin had seen his effort from distance he laid
on another goal; galloping forward down the left before laying the
ball infield to Almiron.
The Paraguayan continued his diagonal run into the box before
supplying a classy clipped finish over the goalkeeper
reminiscent of Peter Beardsley.
0-3 behind, a rare home advance ended with David Brooks pinging his
shot off the crossbar before Saint-Maximin made way for Carroll
(minus what must have been his FA Cup beard).
It goes without saying that every display of this level increases
ASM's resale value and makes it more likely that he'll be sold on,
if the takeover isn't concluded.
Being bleak about this, if Ashley remains in control, we not get to
see him in the flesh again - at least in our kit. By the time we're
back the Frenchman will be away.
ASM's departure though didn't end the scoring; Shelvey driving down
the centre and Lazaro springing the alleged offside trap to score
his first PL goal.
A fifth should have followed, but when Lazaro smashed a shot off the
underside of the crossbar, fellow replacement Isaac Hayden skied it
over the unguarded net - and his blushes weren't spared when a look
across the line confirmed no offside flag was raised ("miss of the
century" he later called it).
There was to be a slight sting in the tail when the hosts got one
back right at the end of added time, but that failed to detract from
a memorable night that featured four excellent team goals.
The last time Newcastle scored that
many times away from home was on that memorable day at Fulham last
season; Toon fans arriving by boat and floating home on a tide of
optimism and over-priced drink.
Fast forward 14 months and things were rather different here,
goals greeted with nothing more than yelps from the players echoing
around empty stands.
Having scored precisely one goal in the five PL games before
lockdown, it's entirely typical of this club to now conjure up goal fests
with none of their followers present: four here making it eight in
three closed door games.
How long though before scenes of epic celebration that greeted Matt
Ritchie's late equaliser here last season get to be repeated? Next
season - or never?
The phrase "new normal" is now much-used; the worry is that blanket
coverage of every PL game on TV is quickly becoming acceptable - and
redrawing the football map for those who would usually be in
attendance.
Home fans will doubtless return at some point next season, but we
have genuine concerns that away travellers will be excluded for
longer under the pretext of public safety - required only for a fake
soundtrack.
Hopefully we're being overly gloomy, but for tonight at least a
hasty rewrite of one song was required:
"This is the best trip I've never been on."
Biffa