Five star Newcastle United soar into third place in the Premier League with stunning win over Crystal Palace

Newcastle United made it nine goals in two games tonight after following up Sunday's 4-1 win over Manchester United with a 5-0 win over Crystal Palace.

In contrast, that makes it 10 goals conceded in two games for Palace who, aside from being awarded a penalty, never looked like scoring.

Despite his best efforts, Nick Pope kept a clean sheet, with the keeper being at fault for the penalty, although it was a very harsh decision that took VAR and the on-field referee seven minutes to award. Then on 90 minutes, Pope had another rush of blood that left Adam Wharton with a golden opportunity to square it for Eddie Nketiah to poke up, but Wharton's ball was behind Nketiah who slipped and the opportunity for a consolation goal was gone.

Other than those two moments though, it was just another routine victory for Newcastle who could have been 3-0 up in the opening 10 minutes before Jacob Murphy did break the deadlock.

Marc Guehi has scored for Newcastle home and away this season

Clearly inspired by Sandro Tonali's screamer against Brentford, Jacob Murphy hit his own belter from out wide into the roof of the net to open the floodgates.

The controversial penalty incident began around the half-hour mark and the long delay clearly got the better of Eberechi Ezi who tapped the worst penalty I've seen in years into the grateful hands of Nick Pope.

Just a minute or so later, Newcastle were 2-0 up as Harvey Barnes fired a cross towards Alexander Isak only for Marc Guehi to deflect the cross into the net for his second Newcastle United goal of the season. Cheers, Agent Guehi.

Alexander Isak waited for his most difficult chance before scoring a goal

Harvey Barnes kept his run of goals going scoring his fourth in three games two minutes into the seven minutes of stoppage time with a left foot rocket beyond the Palace 'keeper.

Then, in the sweetest of ironies, Newcastle scored deep into stoppage time that was only awarded thanks to that lengthy VAR check for the penalty as Jacob Murphy got his customary assist, curling in a cross for Fabian Schar to nod home.

The second half was basically just a case of keeping Crystal Palace out of the game, but just to make sure they had no hope, Alexander Isak, who missed a host of easy chances in the first half, fired home from range to make it five. Clearly, the other chances were just too easy for Isak.

From then on, there wasn't really much to report as Palace were defeated and Newcastle had the job done and the game became routine.

That's Newcastle into third place now, just four points off Arsenal in second and two points ahead of Nottingham Forest in fourth. Which is nice.