Alexander Isak struck the winner as Newcastle United beat Tottenham 2-1 in a vigorous encounter at St James’ Park.
Eddie Howe’s males broke the impasse on 37 minutes when Harvey Barnes produced a superb first-time end to transform Lloyd Kelly’s cross from the left.
Tottenham dominated following the restart and deservedly levelled when Dan Burn bundled substitute Brennan Johnson’s cross-shot into his personal internet.
Ange Postecoglou’s males had been totally dominant however couldn’t make it rely on the scoreboard with James Maddison, Wilson Odobert and Johnson all going shut.
Newcastle then made them pay with a lightning counter-attack 12 minutes from time as substitute Jacob Murphy arrange Isak to roll dwelling.
The consequence means The Magpies have gained their first two dwelling matches in a Premier League season for the primary time since 2000/01 and strikes them as much as fourth spot with seven factors from three outings.
Tottenham endure their first lack of the league marketing campaign and sit tenth.
Subsequent up, Newcastle go to Wolves on Sunday September 15 after the worldwide break whereas Tottenham host neighbours Arsenal.
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This was a hard-fought win for Newcastle and it didn’t go unnoticed that for lengthy spells they had been outplayed by a profligate Tottenham. Nevertheless, the positives are exhausting to disregard for Howe and Co as they adopted up a midweek League Cup win by sustaining a robust begin to the PL season.
The Magpies scored for the twenty first dwelling league match on the spin and maintained an ideal dwelling report (in 2024-25) to make it 10 PL video games unbeaten at St James’ Park.
Throw within the Premier League return of midfielder Sandro Tonali from his betting ban as a second-half substitute, and regardless of unrest from supporters over a scarcity of switch exercise this summer time, issues are fairly constructive for The Toon heading into the worldwide break.
Participant of the Match – Alexander Isak (Newcastle)
The Swede was industrious all through and obtained his reward with the profitable objective. It was his first of the brand new marketing campaign and got here after he had gone shut with a cross-shot towards the publish.
Participant Scores
NEWCASTLE: Pope 7, Kelly 7, Krafth 7, Burn 6, Livramento 7, Joelinton 7, Guimaraes 7, Longstaff 6, Barnes 7, Gordon 7, Isak 8. Subs: J. Murphy 7, Corridor 6, Tonali 6, Almiron n/a.
TOTTENHAM: Vicario 6, Udogie 7, Porro 7, Romero 7, Dragusin 6, Maddison 6, Bissouma 6, Sarr 6, Kulusevski 6, Odobert 6, Son 6. Subs: Johnson 7, Werner 6, Bergvall n/a, Bentancur n/a.
Match Highlights
05’ – NEWCASTLE CHANCE! Isak wins the ball on the far proper from Son and hangs up a devilish cross that deceives Guglielmo Vicario however crashes towards the again publish.
37’ – GOAL! – Newcastle 1-0 Tottenham: (Harvey Barnes). The house facet break the impasse as Barnes flicks a first-time end into the nook from Kelly’s intelligent ball from the left.
55’ – GOAL! – Newcastle 1-1 Tottenham: (Dan Burn personal objective). Pope makes a meal of Maddison’s low shot from the left and poor outdated Burn can solely bundle into his personal internet attempting to clear Johnson’s effort on the rebound. It’s not more than Spurs deserve having hit the bar seconds earlier and been utterly dominant for the reason that restart.
66’ – NEWCASTLE CHANCE! Vicario beats away Murphy’s shot at his close to publish after a pleasant lay-off from Gordon had freed the substitute on the left facet of the field.
78’ – GOAL! – Newcastle 2-1 Tottenham: (Alexander Isak). It is a sucker punch. Spurs have been dominant, however they’re caught on the break as Murphy surges clear earlier than rolling the ball throughout for Isak to faucet dwelling.