Newcastle United’s striker Alexander Isak secured a 2-1 win in opposition to Tottenham Hotspur with a easy tap-in as they weathered a second-half storm from the guests to safe the factors in an entertaining Premier League conflict at St James’ Park on Sunday.
Harvey Barnes’ first-half opener for Newcastle was cancelled out by a Dan Burn personal objective after the break as Spurs dominated the possibilities within the second interval however spurned quite a few openings and had been crushed by a lightning-quick break from the hosts.
Joelinton’s defence-splitting go was excellent for Jacob Murphy who, after drawing out keeper Guglielmo Vicario, laid the ball on a plate for Isak to safe the three factors for supervisor Eddie Howe’s facet, who stay unbeaten at dwelling since January.
Including to Newcastle’s delight, midfielder Sandro Tonali made his first league look since being handed a 10-month ban for a breach of betting guidelines and obtained a rapturous reception from the house supporters.
Newcastle now have seven factors from their first three video games, whereas Tottenham stay on 4.
“Usually we weren’t anticipating to have an excessive amount of of the ball,” Isak instructed Sky Sports activities. “We wished to be harmful on the counter-attack. It wasn’t probably the most lovely sport from our facet however we defended rather well and scored two in order that’s good.
“You at all times must be concentrated. It is simple to get annoyed. It was a troublesome sport and difficult for me — I wasn’t at my sharpest.”
Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou was left to rue the scoreline however not the efficiency as his facet had full management of the competition for lengthy durations.
“It received away from us sadly,” Postecoglou mentioned. “We had the possibilities to win the sport, in all probability comfortably, however we stroll away with nothing so it is a bitter capsule to swallow.”
Isak struck the woodwork with an early likelihood earlier than Newcastle took the lead in opposition to the run of play after 37 minutes.
A fast throw-in allowed Lloyd Kelly to fireside in a low cross from the left which was fantastically guided into the far nook by Barnes.
The guests levelled when Newcastle goalkeeper Nick Pope didn’t take care of a James Maddison shot and pushed the ball to Brennan Johnson, whose effort was cleared into his personal internet by Burn.
Tottenham continued to pepper the Newcastle objective nevertheless it was the hosts who discovered the winner because of the imaginative and prescient of Joelinton and composure of Murphy to arrange Sweden worldwide Isak.