Newcastle United 2-3 Manchester City: Premier League as it happened | Premier League

TNT Sports have no time left for Pep, but they’ve already chatted to De Bruyne and Bobb, so all’s good. Louise Taylor’s report is in, and here it is. Thanks for reading this MBM.

A deflated Eddie Howe speaks to TNT. “It’s difficult … a difficult second half … we were a real threat in the game … the end of the game was really painful … we had chances … we scored two and potentially could have scored more … the quality told in the end … the substitution of De Bruyne, a world-class player … he scored one and assisted one and made the difference … we’ve just got to continue in the same vain of today … there’s not a lot wrong with our performances, we’re just not putting it together for the whole 90 minutes … today we were a top team in moments and phases but to win games you need to do it for the whole game, and we weren’t able physically today … collectively we have to stick together … we need to learn lessons from this defeat.”

The brilliant Kevin De Bruyne talks to TNT. “It was crazy … I missed this … it was more willpower than anything else … I’m not able to do that for 90 minutes at the moment … I can put in a shift for 20-25 minutes at full pace … I feel it in my lungs with the cold … it can’t be any better than this, can it? … the ball was good but the run from Oscar was amazing … the control at pace and going around the keeper … we want to try to compete again for the league … I’m happy to be back and compete.”

The goalscoring hero Oscar Bobb speaks to TNT. “It’s an amazing feeling … the manager told me, go on and score … thankfully I could … it’s a lifelong dream … to do it with the best team in the world, I can’t explain it … I said thank you to Kevin De Bruyne [for the assist] afterwards … he’s the only one in the world who can do that … to get to play with him is great … not only one of the greatest players in the Premier League, he’s also a very nice guy … helps the young lads a lot … just having him back, he’s one of our captains, so he definitely strengthens the team.”

Manchester City cavort! Proper scenes of celebration. Pep Guardiola is pumped. They know how important those extra two points could be come the end of the season! Newcastle scored two excellent goals, but City scored three. The hosts ran out of energy towards the end of the game, the champions passed and pressed, and the substitutes Kevin De Bruyne and Oscar Bobb took advantage. Elegantly so. That’s a huge win for City, who move into second place, their title charge beginning … three, two, one … right about now.

Oh, and Matthew Guite (50 mins) called it pretty much spot on, didn’t he?

FULL TIME: Newcastle United 2-3 Manchester City

Oscar Bobb gets the job done!

90 min +2: Almiron tries to scissor a loose ball goalwards, but he can’t connect. He claims a handball but more out of desperation than anything else.

GOAL! Newcastle United 2-3 Manchester City (Bobb 90+1)

The champions have snatched it at the death! De Bruyne wedges a pass down the inside-left channel. Bobb brings it down, sashays past a lunging Trippier, sells Dubravka a dummy, and rolls into the net from six yards! Yet another outstanding finish!

90 min: There will be just three added minutes. The announcement gives the home fans a brief lift. However …

89 min: Rodri races the best part of 80 yards upfield. He finds Gvardiol, whose slight hesitation allows Trippier to put a stop to City’s gallop on the edge of the box.

87 min: The tension all around St James’ Park is palpable. City are press, press, pressing for the winner. Newcastle so desperate to hang on for a precious point. The home side running on fumes, however.

86 min: Gordon is replaced by Lewis Hall. Schar loops a pass down the right for Miley, who is eventually flagged offside. That was tight. “Dear Matt Dony,” replies Jeff Sax. “Love is blind!”

85 min: A looping ball nearly catches Dubravka out. He tips over his bar. Another corner. Newcastle deal with it. Just. They continue to hang on.

84 min: Rodri dances his way down the middle, ball glued to his boot. He enters the box and fizzes a shot towards the bottom right. Dubravka does extremely well to palm out for a corner, from which nothing comes. City are really pressing for a priceless winner.

83 min: Doku makes way for the young Norwegian attacker Oscar Bobb. “Look away, Sax,” begins Matt Dony. “Gordon’s goal was also Darwin-esque. Although, in fairness, Gordon wasn’t making up for one of the worst touches in the history of professional football. Man, I love Nunez!”

82 min: Some pinball in the Newcastle box. Schar is forced to hack clear in a panic. The home side hanging on.

80 min: Foden tries to score from the halfway line. He doesn’t catch it properly, which is just as well for Dubravka, who was well out of position.

79 min: Gordon’s shot is deflected wide right for a rare Newcastle corner. Trippier to take. Nothing comes of it, but at least it’s a moment of respite for the home defence.

78 min: Gordon attempts to release Isak into space down the right. A decent pass, but Isak looks completely out of juice. He can’t haul his heavy legs across to take up possession.

77 min: Foden and De Bruyne combine crisply down the right. The latter crosses. Burn heads clear. Newcastle can’t get out.

75 min: That had been coming, it’s fair to say. And what a cool, measured finish by De Bruyne. He’s back, baby.

GOAL! Newcastle United 2-2 Manchester City (De Bruyne 74)

Rodri pings a pass down the inside-right channel for De Bruyne, who strides upfield, drifts into the middle, and passes a shot from the edge of the D through Schar’s legs and into the bottom left. Simple as that! Another world-class goal!

73 min: Rodri’s right-wing cross brushes Longstaff and flies out of play. Newcastle get the ball back, though. Rodri is fuming at the officials’ mistake. But no matter, because City soon come back at Newcastle, and …

72 min: City continue to press forward. Now it’s Foden’s turn to swing wildly at a good chance, shanking a shot from the right-hand edge of the six-yard box across goal and away.

70 min: Nope. He blooters it witlessly into the wall. Most unlike him. The ball breaks to Doku on the left. A cross into the mixer. It drops to Alvarez, alone on the penalty spot! He leans back and flays a dismal effort way over the bar. He should have hit the target at the very least. He almost certainly should have scored.

69 min: Rodri is skittled by Longstaff, just to the right of the Newcastle D. Before the free kick is taken, Silva is replaced by De Bruyne. The returning hero’s going to take it! A goal with his first touch?!

68 min: Kovacic takes a shot from distance. The ball takes a huge deflection off Schar, but Dubravka hasn’t committed himself, and is able to adjust and stop an effort that’s headed for the bottom-right corner.

67 min: Gordon sends Burn scampering into space down the left. Burn crosses low for Isak, who opens his body and tries to steer a shot past Ortega. The City stand-in keeper does exceptionally well to spread himself and block the shot. That was Newcastle’s best move of the second half.

66 min: Another Doku run, another corner on the left … and some more over-elaboration that allows Newcastle to clear their lines.

64 min: Alvarez takes a snapshot from the edge of the Toon box. Straight at Dubravka, who nevertheless parries well. “Silva’s finish should be a Zola, no?” wonders Matthew Lysaght. “Kanu did it in the late 1990s at Boro,” adds Aristos Galatopoulos. “A Nwankwo?”

62 min: Guimaraes has his pocket picked in midfield by Rodri. City stream forward. Walker is sent steaming into the box down the right. He cuts back in the hope of finding Foden, who can’t force home from close range because Guimaraes has got back to make good his initial mistake. He blocks, then bravely takes a hit from Rodri in the middle of a scramble. A free kick means the danger is over.

60 min: Doku’s mere presence earns City a corner down the left. Alvarez takes. City tiki-taka a while. They win a corner on the right. It’s pulled back for Foden, who doesn’t faff around this time, skelping a shot high over the bar.

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