Alexander Isak and Super Sandro Tonali seal a 3-1 win for Newcastle United at Southampton

 · January 25 2025, 17:16
Alexander Isak and Super Sandro Tonali seal a 3-1 win for Newcastle United at Southampton
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It wasn't as straightforward as it should have been but Newcastle United will return to the North East having secured another three Premier League points at the expense of the league's worst side.

Newcastle started brightly and it looked like it was going to be a rout from the opening few minutes, but it was Southampton who took a shock lead on 10 minutes via a powerful Jan Bednarek header totally against the run of play.

The Magpies had to wait another 16 minutes before getting themselves level, during which their heads seemed to have gone down after falling behind.

It took a VAR intervention and an on-field review to award Newcastle a penalty after Alexander Isak was clearly fouled in the box with the Swedish striker winning, taking and converting the spot kick to bring the scoreline to 1-1.

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Alexander Isak scored twice today to make up for his blank last week

It took Isak just four minutes to double his tally and put Newcastle into the lead after some absolutely stunning play from Jacob Murphy. Murphy went on a run on the halfway line, dinking the ball over the outstretched boot of a Southampton midfielder before he played a stunning through ball for Isak to run on to and slot home.

Isak's two today made up for him drawing a blank last week and keeps him in the hunt for the Golden Boot as well as cementing his place in history yet again as the first Newcastle player to score in five consecutive away games.

The sides went in at half time at 2-1 with Newcastle back in the driving seat again. However, when the second half got underway, Newcastle were lacking that cutting edge yet again and had to grow back into the game.

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Newcastle didn't really press home their advantage this afternoon

Grow into it they did, however, and on 51 minutes they had opened up a two-goal lead thanks to some gorgeous one-touch football which saw Alexander Isak play the ball off his chest to Anthony Gordon who it a one-touch pass through to the on-running Sandro Tonali who made no mistake when through one-v-one with Alex McCarthy in the Southampton net.

Jacob Murphy did his party piece of hitting the woodwork too as Newcastle toyed with Southampton without really putting them to the sword.

That almost backfired when Southampton had the ball in the net late on after Fabian Schar inexplicably let a long-ball sail over his head. Thankfully, VAR was on hand to rule the goal out for offside and Newcastle's two-goal lead remained intact until the final whistle.

Miguel Almiron came on for the last few minutes and received an exceptional welcome from the home fans who sang his name knowing that it's likely the last time we'll see him in a Newcastle shirt.

Also, it's definitely worth mentioning that Bournemouth absolutely demolished Nottingham Forest today 5-0, which really makes our defeat last week look a lot less painful.

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