Newcastle 3-0 Fulham: Miley scores first senior goal as knackered Magpies down 10-man Cottagers
17-year-worn Lewis Miley scored his initially senior aspiration for Newcastle Unified as Eddie Howe’s side strolled to profitability against 10-guy Fulham.
The teenage midfielder, drive into the reaction as a initially-half selection after Fabian Schar and Joelinton had been had to head coach Eddie Howe’s rigorous injury list, discharged the Magpies into a 57th-minute lead before Miguel Almiron and Dan Scorch fared the scoresheet to clench a been entitled to profitability.
Fulham, that had demonstrator Raul Jimenez sent out off with merely 22 minutes sought unnecessarily flooring midfielder Sean Longstaff, upset Newcastle before eventually discarding in front of a St James’ Park digit of 52,035.
Howe had insisted onward of time there could be zero hangover from Wednesday night’s Victors League flee and his players arrangement about their job with excitement in a proposal to end a sprinted of three consecutive defeats.
In the lack of the don grip Kieran Trippier, defender Schar took price at a fifth-minute emission-kick and after tapping the sphere short to Anthony Gordon, he mauled a crinkling inoculation merely wide of Bernd Leno’s escaped short article.
Singularly, the viewers, that had scored 5 without reply in each of their last 2 strengthens, had landed here intent on confiscating merit of any kind of fatigue among the black and white ranks and repetitively stretched the abode protection on the counter.
Bruno Guimaraes discharged high over from Gordon’s 17th-minute yank-earlier after Jamaal Lascelles had muscled Jimenez off the the sphere with the demonstrator warranting treatment after being trapped by a smacking arm.
The frontman was also added harmed 5 minutes later once, after umpire Sam Barrott had been invited to regard his godawful crisis on Longstaff, the polices spruced upward the yellow card he had initially rewarded to a red.
Newcastle came seriously chummy to the opening aspiration on the half-hour once Gordon governed selection Emil Krafth’s cross and wrecked a escaped-foot inoculation against the structure of the nightclub before Callum Wilson led integrated at Leno from Gordon’s cross.
Scorch then did merely enough to postured Alex Iwobi off as he inoculation having sprinted on to Joelinton’s loose establish with Martin Dubravka having earlier fielded Joao Palhinha’s long-collection effort.
Leno refuted Longstaff after he had sprinted on to Tino Livramento’s via sphere and the half-time whistle landed here with the sides still aligned together.
Guimaraes drilled a speculative project integrated at Leno as the abode side switched over to on the front foot but channeling out not have the commensurate fantasy or accuracy to panache credible avenues till Gordon sent out Leno complete-expand from Wilson’s lay-off seconds before Miley checked him with a climbing drive.
Singularly, it was the academy graduate that ultimately rendered the innovation with 57 minutes gone once, after Guimaraes had driven into the fine void, he discharged low across Leno and inside the much short article.
The 2nd aspiration landed here within 7 minutes once Gordon’s via sphere escaped Wilson and defender Antonee Robinson and fell thoroughly for Almiron to slot into an bare web.
It was three with 8 minutes remaining, Scorch bundling abode at the much short article after Leno had repelled his initial header.
