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Full time: Nottm Forest 1-2 Newcastle
Newcastle’s season is again on monitor. After two months and not using a Premier League victory, they’ve received twice in six days. The good Alexander Isak scored each objectives after Emmanuel Dennis had put Forest forward with a scrumptious chip. The first half was fairly even; the second was all Newcastle.
90+5 min Renan Lodi is booked for pulling again Isak. “He is very, very sharp,” says Jamie Carragher on commentary, with a mix of admiration and reduction that he didn’t must play towards someone as dynamic as Isak.
Isak waits for Navas to maneuver and sidefoots a nonchalant penalty into the online. It’s his second purpose of the sport, his third of the week; he has been magnificent.
GOAL! Nottm Forest 1-2 Newcastle (Isak 90+3 pen)
Newcastle Football Club has a brand new hero.
Hang on, Isak is taking it – Trippier was the decoy man.
90+3 min Navas and Shelvey are booked for taking part in foolish buggers.
Kieran Trippier will take the penalty…
PENALTY TO NEWCASTLE!
Isak’s header hits the raised arm of Niakhate, who places his head in his fingers even earlier than Paul Tierney has pointed to the spot.
90 min Six minutes of added time.
89 min Aurier marches ahead and performs in Gibbs-White, whose cross is taken away from Surridge by the stretching Pope. That was a significant contact.
87 min: Chances at each ends! Felipe makes a terrific block to disclaim Guimaraes after some glorious play from Newcastle on the suitable. Forest break in trademark fashion, and Johnson’s crisp low shot is kicked away properly by Pope.
86 min Isak has had such a very good recreation. The final six days really feel like an necessary breakthrough in his Newcastle profession.
84 min: Newcastle substitution Matt Ritchie replaces Jacob Murphy.
84 min: Chance for Newcastle! Longstaff stumbles into the world and finds Isak, whose left-footed shot on the stretch is blocked within the six-yard field by Aurier! I’m undecided Navas would have saved that.
82 min “I’m a Newcastle fan but also a supporter of VAR,” says John Davis. “The issue there was that a Forest defender deliberately cleared the ball which went towards Longstaff. Another Forest defender then deliberately played the ball off Longstaff (who didn’t attempt to play the ball?).
“Given some of the attempts to cut out through balls which deflect and then have resulted in players making through runs then being ruled onside again, that one feels really inconsistent. Compared to the Mo Salah goal a month or so ago, that was in a different dimension. I don’t like to criticise refs, I think VAR has brought more ‘correct’ decisions but that just felt wrong under current guidance.”
80 min: Chance for Murphy! Trippier’s angled cross is headed again throughout purpose by Anderson. A few Forest gamers depart it to one another, and Murphy hooks the bouncing ball huge from 12 yards along with his left foot. Decent probability, that.
80 min “That decision is a perfect example of why VAR should be abolished,” says Rupert Downing. “No one other than the VAR referee understands it, which makes it ridiculous for everyone else. This is no longer a real sport. Bring on the robots.”
79 min: Double substitution for Forest Sam Surridge and Neco Williams exchange Andre Ayew, who performed fairly properly, and the goalscorer Emmanuel Dennis. Williams is enjoying left wing.
76 min “I am a biased Forest fan but the offside Newcastle player prevented the defender simply putting it out for a corner or throw,” says Phil Hull. “Had to turn it back into box due to offside player.”
Doesn’t it rely as a distinct section of play as soon as the cross is blocked? I’ll be sincere, I haven’t a clue any extra.
75 min Forest have had a few promising assaults within the final two or three minutes. I don’t suppose it will end 1-1.
73 min “Fair point on Big Sam,” says Tom Stratford. “One particular bit of the early period Allardyce I miss is how he’d start games on the headset in the stands and then you knew it was business time when Sam chose to descend to the Reebok touchline. And if it makes you feel any better I actually found myself feeling slightly sorry for Eden Hazard earlier, so am clearly also going soft on the banter front with age!”
Empathy will get us all ultimately. That and outdated age.
72 min Isak, who has been electrical, combines superbly with Guimaraes earlier than Felipe makes an necessary problem within the space. Then Anderson hammers a ball throughout the six-yard field that’s cleared by Renan Lodi.
71 min Anyway, the shot should go on, and Newcastle are nonetheless pushing for a winner. They’ll be fuming in the event that they lose this, for every kind of causes.
69 min Longstaff was in an offside place on the suitable of the world when someone else, Isak I believe, slid the ball throughout purpose. It was blocked, after which one other Forest defender booted the ball off Longstaff. It ricocheted to Isak, whose cross was headed in by Anderson.
NO GOAL! Nottm Forest 1-1 Newcastle
VAR: killing goals since 2018. The biggest second of Elliot Anderson’s younger life is overturned by some fella in an airless bunker. It’s an accurate if pedantic determination, I believe, however I maintain coming again to the query Kenny Cunningham requested so succinctly on the Off the Ball podcast: has VAR improved soccer as a spectacle?
Paul Tierney goes to the monitor. The situation is whether or not Longstaff, who was in an offside place at one stage, was interfering or whether or not it counts as a distinct section of play. I believe this will likely be disallowed.
Anderson has been good since approaching, stuffed with goal and intent, and now he has put Newcastle forward. An assault broke down on the suitable of the world, however Isak collected the unfastened ball and teased a left-footed cross past the far publish. Anderson received above Aurier and compelled an outstanding header again throughout Navas.
Hang on, it’s being checked by VAR.
GOAL! Nottm Forest 1-2 Newcastle (Anderson 64)
Too late: Elliot Anderson, 20, has put Newcastle forward along with his first senior purpose!
63 min Newcastle have been a lot the higher staff since half-time, and Steve Cooper should be contemplating a swap to the standard 4-3-2-1.
62 min “Considering how both these teams were performing at the start of the season, that 1-1 is a fair scoreline at halftime is a testament to Steve Cooper’s incredible skill as a manager,” writes Kári Tulinius. “Meanwhile, Newcastle are a bit less taut than they were before the World Cup, but the funds to purchase a player of Isak’s quality will paper over most cracks.”
I’ve been impressed with Newcastle tonight, significantly their passing in tight areas across the fringe of the Forest space. Whatever occurs between now and the tip of May, Eddie Howe has achieved such a very good job with what remains to be, at this stage, not more than an higher mid-table squad.
61 min Willock cuts inside from the suitable and pokes a cross into Guimaraes on the sting of the world. He slashes a rising drive that’s pushed over by the leaping Navas, one other dramatic however comparatively comfy save. The ensuing nook is cleared to the sting of the world, the place Anderson shoots over. He’s been actually full of life since approaching.
60 min Murphy slides a pleasant ball in direction of Anderson, who is thru on purpose… after which slips over. Dumb luck for Newcastle.
59 min Gibbs-White is booked for a cynical pull on Bruno Guimaraes.
59 min: Just huge from Shelvey! Gibbs-White’s nook is headed away to the sting of the world. Shelvey cracks an impatient volley that hits Isak and loops again to Shelvey, who controls the ball on the chest and drags a shot not far huge. Pope had it lined although.
58 min: Forest substitution Ryan Yates goes off with a shoulder downside. Remo Freuler replaces him.
57 min A beautiful deft contact from Ayew releases Dennis, who takes a poor contact however nonetheless manages to win a nook.
57 min “Happy St. Patrick’s Day one and all!” says Nora Mulcahy, a sentiment I’ll heartily second. Hic.
55 min A uncommon Forest counter-attack (within the second half) ends when Gibbs-White overhits a cross. He’s been quiet tonight.
54 min “So with the entire MotD team and now potentially also a 75-year Roy Hodgson going back to work, do we have to acknowledge Jeremy Hunt’s absolutely smashed the theme of this year’s budget?” says Tom Stratford. “Someone will be putting down their pint of wine and getting a plane back from Malaga at this rate…”
It all the time makes me a bit unhappy that Sam Allardyce – who was such a progressive supervisor firstly of his profession, and overachieved at just about each membership he managed – was sacrificed on the altar of banter. I’m going delicate in my outdated age, I do know. Fifteen years in the past I used to be the Bishop of Bantersaurus, or regardless of the eff.
52 min A minute or so earlier than that Anderson volley, Felipe had a handful of his shirt within the space. Technically, I suppose that might have been a penalty to Newcastle.
51 min Newcastle are throughout Forest like an affordable cliche. One nook results in one other, which ultimately results in Willock curling over from the left fringe of the world.
49 min: Good save from Navas! Murphy, on the suitable, floats a nothing cross past the far publish. The substitute Anderson meets it with a candy, sidefooted volley that’s pushed over dramatically by Navas. It was a snug sufficient save for a keeper of his class, however Anderson’s method was excellent.
46 min Peep peep! Newcastle start the second half, having made a half-time change: Elliot Anderson for Allan Saint-Maximin.
Half time: Nottm Forest 1-1 Newcastle
Two excellent objectives, a good scoreline, some fruity tackles: what’s to not love?
This is a superb end from Isak, who’s so rattling sizzling proper now. Schar and Saint-Maximin mixed properly on the suitable to launch Willock, who lifted a cross in direction of the unmarked Isak on the far publish. The ball was barely behind Isak, who improvised superbly. With each ft off the bottom, he whirled his proper foot across the ball to power a volley again throughout purpose and into the online by way of the publish.
GOAL! Nottm Forest 1-1 Newcastle (Isak 45+2)
Alexander Isak equalises on the stroke of half time!
45 min There will likely be three minutes of added time.
43 min A conflict of heads between Ayew and Guimaraes results in a break in play whereas they obtain remedy. I believe they’re high quality.
41 min Felipe sprays a cross excessive to Ayew, who seems miles offside however is allowed to proceed. Trippier will get again to make a strong problem, simply in case, after which the flag goes up. Replays present Ayew was offside, although not by a lot.
39 min “Have to say,” says Peter Turnbull, “Forest need a calming yellow card.”
I believe Dennis was booked for his purpose celebration, although I respect that’s not the purpose you’re making. Ayew and Shelvey ought to have been booked.
38 min Longstaff lifts a extremely intelligent cross into the world for Murphy, whose shot is blocked. Moments later, Longstaff belts over from distance.
35 min: Longstaff hits the bar! Murphy muscle groups Renan Lodi off the ball, simply outdoors the world on the Newcastle proper, and slides the ball again to the sting of the world. Longstaff collects and sidefoots a shot that hits Felipe, loops over Navas and hits the crossbar!
34 min Shelvey flips a terrific cross into Yates, who can’t management it on the sting of the world. Had he achieved so, Forest may need been in once more.
33 min Dan Burn is booked for dissent. Misplaced dissent at that, as a result of replays present the choice he complained about was appropriate.
32 min “I cannot let your comment about Roy Hodgson pass unchallenged,” says Richard Hirst. “He will always have an honoured place in the Fulham pantheon (no sniggering from the cheap seats) – a legend, and a gentleman.”
He was nice at Fulham, little question, however the considered him changing Vieira is simply bizarre.
30 min Shelvey will get a last warning for a scissor sort out on Guimaraes. He did get the ball however that’s not significantly related with a problem like that, and like Ayew earlier he ought to have been booked. Forest have been very bodily within the first half hour.
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