2009/10 SHEFF WED 2 NEWCASTLE UTD 2
Harper
Simpson
Jose Enrique
Butt
Coloccini
S.Taylor
Nolan
Guthrie
Ameobi (73 Carroll)
Harewood (84 Lovenkrands)
Gutierrez (64 Pancrate)
Substitutes:
Krul
R.Taylor
Kadar
Ranger
Attendance: 30,030 including a sold-out 5,300 Newcastle fans in the upper and lower sections of the Leppings Lane.
Space in the home sections of a ground that still holds just under 40,000 saw a number of ticketless Toon fans appear in those areas - and a number were escorted out, both before kick-off and after both our goals.
Goals
14 mins A half-cleared corner was returned into the United box by James O'Connor, with an unmarked Luke Varney to head home, despite the presence of two United players on the line. 0-1
19 mins Danny Simpson and Shola Ameobi combined down the United right and worked the ball to Danny Guthrie. He made it to the byline and found Kevin Nolan, who picked his spot and converted in front of the Kop with a decent header. 1-1
22 mins Jonas Gutierrez took possession near to the left corner of the Owls box and laid a low pass forward to Shola Ameobi. He turned infield and evaded two defenders before rifling home his 58th goal for the club from just inside the area.
It later became apparent that he had received the ball when in an offside position (along with the 'inactive' Marlon Harewood), before checking back, heading across the box and shooting. 2-1
59 mins a hopeful cross from the left was swung in towards Harper, who was preparing to make a two-handed catch as Varney jumped with him. He made contact with the ball about two yards from goal, heading it onto the crossbar but linking arms with Harper as he followed through.
That was enough to impede the United 'keeper, who turned away from goal just in time to see the arriving O'Connor ram the loose ball into the net from four yards. 2-2
Newcastle manager Chris Hughton said:
"It wasn't one of our better performances. We have no given right to win any game and we faced a spirited Sheffield Wednesday side.
“Having got back into the game and then gone ahead, it makes it doubly disappointing when you don’t go and finish the job off, but their second goal was definitely a foul.
“He (Harper) was almost certainly impeded, and it was probably a decision that referees will give week-in, week-out in favour of the goalkeeper. His arm is raised and wraps around Steve Harper’s arm. It was definitely a foul.
"I have had the benefit of seeing the incidents since, and I can understand they would be aggrieved with Shola’s goal,. As the ball goes into him, he starts in an offside position.”
"We knew this was a side who would put us under a lot of pressure because of the way they play. What you’ve got to do is soak that up and score at the other end. The fact that we scored two makes it disappointing we conceded two.
"It would have been too big a risk to play him (Alan Smith) today but he'll be available on Monday."
Wednesday's interim manager Sean McAuley commented:
"It was the way that they approached the game that we are really pleased with. They played with no fear and had a great start. When a team that is ten points clear at the top of the league gets 2-1 you probably think and fear the worst but the reaction in the second half was spot on and the players deserve all of the credit.
"Their second goal came from an offside situation but we want to remove any culture of excuses. We didn't want to sit and cry about it so it was a case of rolling our sleeves up and working hard in the second half to make sure we got something out of the game.
"We needed to stay disciplined. We didn't play pretty football but the players need to understand that is the position we are in and maybe if we can get a strong foothold in the games coming up then the creativity can start coming out. But I knew the hard work and effort would be key to getting us points today. Let's make no mistake about it Newcastle are at the top of the league and they are a very tough nut to crack so I thought we did really well.
"We'd not scored in six games, we only got two points out of a possible 30 so we can start a new run of two goals and one point out of a possible three - we have to make every game a cup final from now on.
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NEWCASTLE UNITED
Fri 10th July (8pm BST)
Gateshead FC 0 Newcastle Utd 1 (Cisse pen)
(First half): Darlow, Janmaat, Haidara, Lascelles, Williamson, Anita, Colback, Gouffran, Cisse, Sissoko, De Jong. (Second half): Woodman, Bigirimana, Satka, Good, Ferguson, Tiote, Obertan, Aarons, Perez, Armstrong, Riviere.
Tue 14th July (8pm CT)
Club Atlas (MEX) 2 Newcastle Utd 1 (Sissoko)
Krul (Darlow 46); Janmaat (Bigirimana 72), Williamson, Lascelles, Haidara (Ferguson 72); Anita, Colback; Sissoko (Obertan 72), de Jong (Perez 72), Gouffran (Aarons 72); Cisse (Armstrong 72).
Sat 18th July (8pm UTC)
Sacramento Republic FC (USA) 0 Newcastle Utd 1 (og)
Krul (Woodman 46), Janmaat, Williamson, Lascelles (Taylor 46), Haïdara, Anita, Colback, Sissoko, Obertan (Aarons 69), de Jong (Perez 69), Cissé (Wijnaldum 69).
Tue 21st July (7.30pm UTC)
Portland Timbers (USA) 4 Newcastle Utd 3 (Wijnaldum, Aarons 2)
Darlow (Woodman 46), Bigirimana, Satka, Ferguson, Aarons; Abeid (Anita 65), Wijnaldum (Janmaat 46), Gouffran (De Jong 76), Sissoko (Obertan 46), Ayoze, Cisse (Armstrong 46).
Sun 26th July (1pm BST)
Sheffield United 2 Newcastle Utd 2 (Wijnaldum, de Jong)
Krul, Janmaat, Williamson, Taylor (Lascelles 69), Haïdara, Anita (Obertan 59), Colback, Sissoko (Abeid 80), Wijnaldum (De Jong 73), Perez (Aarons 45), Cissé (Armstrong 80)
Wed 29th July (7.45pm BST)
York City 2 Newcastle Utd 1 (Perez)
Darlow (Elliot HT); Bigirimana, Lascelles, Satka, Ferguson; Abeid, Gouffran; Aarons (Kemen 59), De Jong, Perez; Mitrovic (Suddick 70)
Sat 1st August (3pm BST)
Newcastle Utd 0 Borussia Mönchengladbach 1
Krul, Janmaat (Mbemba 62), Williamson, Taylor, Haïdara, Anita (De Jong 75), Colback, Sissoko (Perez 81), Obertan (Aarons 62), Wijnaldum, Cissé (Mitrovic 62).
Sunday August 9
NEWCASTLE UTD 2 SOUTHAMPTON 2 (Cisse, Wijnaldum)
Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara; Colback, Anita (Tiote, 67); Sissoko, Wijnaldum (De Jong, 81), Obertan; Cisse (Mitrovic, 75). Subs not used: Darlow, Taylor, Aarons, Perez.
Saturday August 15
SWANSEA CITY 2 NEWCASTLE UTD 0
Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara, Anita, Colback, Sissoko (45' Taylor), Wijnaldum, Obertan (82' Mitrovic), Cisse (54' Aarons). Subs: Williamson, Perez, Tiote, Darlow
Saturday August 22
MANCHESTER UTD 0 NEWCASTLE UTD 0
Krul, Mbemba, Taylor, Coloccini, Haidara, Anita, Colback, Perez (78' Tiote), Wijnaldum, Obertan (69' Thauvin), Mitrovic (88' Cisse).
Subs: Williamson, de Jong, Aarons, Darlow
Tuesday August 26
NEWCASTLE UTD 4 NORTHAMPTON TOWN 1 (Thauvin, Janmaat, de Jong, Williamson
Darlow, Janmaat, Lascelles, Williamson, Haidara (78' Toney), Tiote, Gouffran, Aarons, de Jong, Thauvin (65' Mitrovic), Perez (72' Colback).
Subs: Dummett, Wijnaldum, Mbemba, Elliot.
Saturday August 29
NEWCASTLE UTD 0 ARSENAL 1
Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara, Anita (72' Perez), Sissoko (78' Cisse), Wijnaldum, Thauvin (87' de Jong), Mitrovic
Subs: Obertan, Tiote, Darlow, Taylor
Monday September 14
WEST HAM UTD 2 NEWCASTLE UTD 0
Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara, Anita (60' de Jong), Colback, Sissoko, Wijnaldum (79' Aarons), Thauvin (60' Perez), Cisse Subs: Gouffran, Obertan, Lascelles, Darlow
Saturday September 19
NEWCASTLE UTD 1 WATFORD 2
Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara (80' Aarons), Wijnaldum, Colback, Thauvin (88' Obertan), Sissoko, Perez, Cisse (45' de Jong)
Subs: Williamson, Anita, Lascelles, Elliot
Wednesday September 23
19:45 Newcastle United v Sheffield Wednesday (League Cup)
Saturday September 26
17:30 Newcastle United v Chelsea