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Newcastle United host Tottenham Hotspur at St James’ Park in the weekend’s early Premier League kick-off.
Eddie Howe’s team are striving to move up the table and secure European football for next year but know that points are valuable currency at this stage of the season. The Magpies currently sit eighth in the league, just outside the spots to qualify for Europe, but are only two points behind Manchester United in sixth.
Spurs meanwhile are hoping to secure their place in fourth having recently overtaken the high-flying Aston Villa. It looks as though Ange Postecoglou’s side are in a battle with the Midlands team for the final Champions League spot with both clubs sitting on 60 points, though Tottenham have a better goal difference and a game in hand.
Postecoglou’s side still have to face Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City before the end of the season so any dropped points today could hurt their chances of a top-four finish.
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Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham
67 mins: Spurs can’t really string any meaningful attacking play together at the moment. Werner tries cutting inside but Murphy does well to tackle and win the goal kick.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:57
Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham
64 mins: Maddison plays Kulusevski into the box, but Newcastle clear for a corner.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:55
Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham
62 mins: Great play from Anderson. Barnes dinks it into him in the box, he skips past the challenge and hits a shot to the near post, but Vicario saves well.
From the corner, Newcastle get a head to it again but it just runs past Anderson.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:53
Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham
61 mins: Maddison is the latest to be booked after a high foot.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:51
Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham
60 mins: Newcastle still look more likely to score, but Spurs have one chance. Brennan Johnson does well to bring it down and avoid a challenge, but he opts to shoot rather than play in Kulusevski.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:50
Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham
57 mins: Spurs make their changes. Kulusevski, Pape Sarr and Hojbjerg come on for Son, Bentancur and Bissouma.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:49
Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham
56 mins: Gordon delivers the free-kick and Isak gets a glancing header onto it, but it bounces wide of the far post!
Replays show he was likely offside.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:46
Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham
55 mins: Spurs preparing more changes now. Newcastle are dominating as Romero is booked for bringing down Romero.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:45
GOAL! Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham
50 mins: GOAL! Too easy for Newcastle.
A long ball is played over from deep inside the Newcastle half. Isak is one-on-one with van de Ven on halfway and times his run perfectly from within his own half, and he races clear. He drives towards goal, opens his body up and slots it past Vicario into the far corner. 3-0.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:43
Newcastle 2-0 Tottenham
50 mins: Werner cuts in and hits a shot from outside the box. It’s straight at Dubravka.
Chris Wilson13 April 2024 13:40
