Key events
Yoane Wissa: “Of course we lost so many players but the club worked well,” he told Sky. “It is challenging and we need players to step up, like me for instance. I didn’t play last year and now I have a chance to play. So many players have to step up and enjoy the challenge and with the fans behind us nobody can stop us.
“I am not injured and I feel confident now. I trust myself and I trust the manager and even though I didn’t play last year I have trained a lot with the players and they know my movements.
“Eddie Howe did a top job and the new manager [Matthias Jaissle] came with a new identity and that [first goal] is something we have been working on. Every part of the game we are really precise. He is a really dynamic manager, so we have to give everything and I think he is the best signing of Newcastle so far.”
Nico Gonzalez: “It was amazing,” said Newcastle’s new midfield maestro in an interview with the BBC. “I have been four days here so it wasn’t easy for me to start but I am really happy for the work I have done and the team has done.
“The idea [in the second half] was the same but we made a few adjustments and were a little more aggressive on them. I think that this group has so much potential, we are really young and have so much space to improve and even today I felt like we kept on improving and feeling more comfortable and that is the way we need to keep going.”
On his precision pass to Amar Dedic for Newcastle’s opener: “It is something I spoke a lot about with the coach,” he says. “He wants me to see these kind of balls and I tried a few in the first half and the second half and we scored. It is something we have tried to work on. In the second half we said: ‘We have to keep doing this because it is really hard to defend these types of players’. I hope it gives us many more goals this season.”
ShareTottenham Hotspur 0-2 Newcastle United
Premier League match report: “If ever you wanted to understand the distinction between ‘winning the transfer market’ and winning an actual football match, then this was the game for you,” writes Paul MacInnes from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
An email: Seeing Sandro Tonali getting spun around by Elanga for the first goal and then playing Wissa onside for the second,” writes Tanay Padhi. “Oh to be a Newcastle fan today.” While I appreciate they will have loved it, as a Sunderland fan, can I say: let’s not go mad.
Tottenham Hotspur: Tottenham have now lost their last three top flight matches at home against Newcastle and are without a league goal after their opening two games of this season. It’s obviously not time to sound the crisis klaxon and while there’s little or no point in perusing the league table until 10 matches have been played, Arsenal and Hull City fans – among others – may enjoy clicking the link below.
Some correspondence: “After playing one match, it’s nice to see Arsenal three points and eight goals clear of Tottenham already,” writes Daniel Rice, who may be Declan in disguisse. “I’m almost glad they weren’t relegated last season.”
“Loving the Jaissle chest bumps,” writes Mags fan Chris Paraskevas from Down Under, where it’s way past everyone’s bedtime. “Nothing wrong with a bit of positive testosterone. Good to see some mongrel back into us. If nothing else, Elanga and Wissa look like completely different players. Even everyone’s favourite N’Sync backup dancer/ Car Yard Tube Man/Dude, Where’s My Car extra (Nick Woltemade) managed a positive attacking contribution. Can you believe Pedro Porro is a World Cup winner?”
Updated at 14.36 EDT
A word on Nico Gonzalez: He may only have arrived on Thursday but Nico Gonzalez was outstanding on his debut for Newcastle today. Matthias Jaissle had a clear plan to isolate Andy Robertson against Dedic and Elanga by attacking down the right flank with long balls pinged from deep by the Spaniard. Having tried it several times without success, the move led directly to Newcastle’s opening goal.
Yoane Wissa: “These fans, they are so lovely,” he says in an interview with Sky, gesturing towards an away end in which his wife and child are sitting. “They love their club, they love their players. What they want is for us to give them everything we have in our bodies. We try and it’s been difficult today but they never stopped singing, shouting. So today is for them today. Today is for them.”
ShareFull time: Tottenham 0-2 Newcastle
It’s an outstanding result for Newcastle, who rode their luck in the first half before putting in a much better shift after the break to win courtesy of goals from Anthony Elanga and Yoane Wissa. It’s two league defeats on the bounce for sorry Spurs, who were much improved from last weekend’s showing against Brentford but still contrived to lose from a position of almost total first-half dominance.
90+4 min: Toure wins a throw-in off Porro deep in Tottenham territory and then beams beatifically as the Tottenham defender jabbers in his ear at length trying to wind him up. Not today, Pedro. The referee blows the final whistle and Tottenham have been put to the Geordie sword for the third time in as many meetings at their own stadium.
90+2 min: Lewis Hall hacks clear from a yard out as Solanke tries to steer an Udogie pull-back home from close range. Newcaslte substituion: Bazoumana Toure on for Barnes.
90+1 min: Jacob Ramsey sends Harvey Barnes away on his bike with a weighted ball in behind but Kinsky is quick off his line to smother it at the winger’s feet.
90 min: Another cross from Fernandes but it’s too deep and sails out for a throw-in on the other side of the pitch. We’re into four minutes of add-ons.
87 min: Marmoush tries to guid a volley towards the corner of the Newcastle goal but doesn’t get enough welly behind his effort to trouble Hornicek.
86 min: The exodus from the stadium has begun in earnest, as home fans try to get a head start on the stampede down Seven Sisters Road towards the Underground station. Oh Spurs.
84 min: Spurs are huffing and puffing but appear to have run out of ideas beyond slinging cross after cross into the Newcastle box. As things stand, Bottman and Thiaw can head those away all night, albeit not as far as their absent captain Dan Burn.
Newcastle double-substitution: Jacobs Ramsey and Murphy replace the goalscorers, Elanga and Wissa.
80 min: Spurs corner. Porro sends a cross into the penalty area, where Botman rises to clear. Now it’s Kudus’s turn to send a cross into the box. His delivery hits a defender and he appeals for a penalty for handball. VAR aren’t interested.
78 min: Mateus Fernandes curls a cross into the Newcastle box but is unable to pick out a teammate. The visitors head clear.
76 min: While there’s time for them to turn this around, it has to be said that while there may be loads of expensive new clowns in the well-appointed Big Top, we’re seeing early signs that is the same old Spurs circus. In complete control of this game at half-time despite having squandered several good chances, they now find themselves two goals down and looking down the barrel of their second defeat of the season after two league games.
Updated at 14.10 EDT
75 min: Tottenham substitution: Sandro Tonali goes off to a chorus of boos and rude hand gestures from the away end and is replaced by Dom Solanke.
ShareGOAL! Tottenham 0-2 Newcastle (Wissa 73)
Lads, it’s Tottenham: From a corner, the ball’s floated to Woltemade at the far post. HIs downward header hits the ground and bounces up. Standing unmarked with his back to goal, Wissa gets down to hook the waist-high ball over his shoulder and past Kinsky into the Tottenham goal.
Newcastle United’s Yoane Wissa hooks the ball goalwards … Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/ReutersIt evades Spurs keeper Antonin Kinsky and Newcastle’s lead is doubled. Photograph: Michael Zemanek/ShutterstockWissa (front right) and fellow goalscorer Anthony Elanga (front left) celebrate with teammates. Photograph: Anthony Hanc/Wired Photos/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 14.12 EDT
71 min: Newcastle substitutions: Nick Woltemade and Sean Steur on for Willock and Gonzalez.
Tottenham substitutions: Mikey Moore, Mohammed Kudus and Destiny Udogie on for Robertson, Gray and Tel.
67 min: While Tottenham haven’t been as dominant in the second half as they were in the first, it would be fair to say that goal has come against the run of play. Spurs get a chance to restore parity with a free-kick in a good position straight in front of goal but after a long wait, Mathys Tel’s effort is dismal.
64 min: Nico Gonzalez picked out Dedic with a brilliant diagonal pass from deep and the right-back knocked the ball into the path of Elanga’s run with a neat header. Newcastle’s winger turned Tonali with aplomb before unleashing a low shot that went in … eventually. That’s the Swede’s second league goal in as many league games – and two more than he scored in the top flight last season.
ShareGOAL! Tottenham 0-1 Newcastle (Elanga 62)
Crikey! Anthony Elanga scores with a low shot that goes in off the foot of the far post after rolling along the goalline.
Anthony Elanga of Newcastle United scores the opening goal. Photograph: Michael Zemanek/ShutterstockElanga celebrates. Photograph: Chris Radburn/ReutersAs do the Toon Army. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/ReutersShare
Updated at 13.57 EDT
60 min: A promising and largely unopposed cross-field run from Omar Marmoush ends with the Spurs debutant sending a dipping diagonal effort flashing just wide of the far post.
58 min: Mateus Fernandes plays a lovely weighted pass in behind for Gray to chase but the Spurs right-back doesn’t have the legs to beat both Botman and Thiaw, who gets across to give his teammate a helping hand.
56 min: Porro clears the set-piece, putting the ball out for a throw-in, which Lewis Hall takes, combining with Willock down by the corner. As the duo try to work the ball into the box, Willock is penalised for a foul on somebody or other and Spurs get to clear their lines.
54 min: Sven Botman tries his luck with a low shot from a long way out. The ball goes out for a corner off Rodrigo Bentancur.
52 min: Tonali is penalised after catching Elanga on the side of the head with his arm as the former teammates contested the ball. He avoids a booking because there was no real aggression on his part.
51 min: There’s hesitation from Kinsky and a loose ball rolls towasrds the byline with Tottenham’s goalkeeper in no-man’s land. Despite his best efforts, Anthony Elanga is unable to get to it in time to steer it goalwards.
47 min: Omar Marmoush goes down under a challenge from Malick Thiaw in the Newcastle penalty area. The Newcastle skipper missed the ball and appeared to kick the Egyptian’s boot instead after being beaten to it. Computer says “referee’s call” and Newcastle seem to have got away with one there. I’ll need to see it again.
46 min: Kinsky launches the ball upfield towards the Newcastle left-back position, where Lewis Hall wins the aerial battle against Archie Gray.
ShareSecond half: Tottenham 0-0 Newcastle
46 min: Play resumes with the game scoreless, Tottenham on the ball and no changes in personnel on either side.
Half-time correspondence: “So ‘Savio’ is suffering from muscle fatigue,” writes Justin Kavanagh. “Who knew that shortening your name could be that much of a stretch? Careful with those nicknames now, kids.”
“It’s vital Spurs win today to try to close the six-point gap to Hull City,” writes Phil Moseley.
“Spurs have gone Double Dutch in central defence, so it’s no wonder that Newcastle’s attackers are struggling to find space in or near the Tottenham box without getting caught up in a tangle of ropes,” writes Peter Oh.
ShareHalf-time: Tottenham 0-0 Newcastle
The deadlock remains resolutely unbroken at the break but Tottenham will wonder how on earth they aren’t at least one goal ahead. After a slow start, Pedro Porro (x2), Mathys Tel, Omar Marmoush, Andy Robertson and Sandro Tonali will all go in for their half-time brew feeling they should have scored against a Newcastle side whose only chance of note fell to Yoane Wissa.
45 min: Mathys Tel picks up the ball on the left side of the Newcastle penalty area after good work by Robertson but is promptly dispossessed by Amar Dedic.
43 min: Out on the right wing on this occasion, Tel jinks this way and that before sending a waist-high cross fizzing across the edge of the six-yard box. Positioned at the near post, Sandro Tonali is unable to make the necessary contact to steer it goalwards.
41 min: Tottenham are in control of the game but have yet to make their obvious superiority count. They’ve had several presentable chances to score and ought to be a be a couple of goals ahead.
39 min: A scything back-to-front move from Tottenham involving Fernandes, Tonali and Porro almost results in a goal, only for it to break down courtesy of a rogue final pass that fails to pick out Mathys Tel and is too close to Hornicek.
37 min: Another Spurs corner and this time Van Hecke rises to head goalwards. Hornicek does well to parry his effort up in the air and then leap to win the second ball amongst a thicket of bodies.
Newcastle keeper Lukas Hornicek saves a header Jan Paul van Hecke of Tottenham Hotspur. Photograph: Michael Zemanek/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 13.17 EDT
34 min: Lewis Hall blocks an attempted cross from Gray and the ball goes out for another Tottenham corner. Robertson steps up, raising both arms in the air, a signal that appears he plans to send the ball drifting on to the head of Newcastle’s Lewis Miley in the middle of the penalty area. He clears, the ball’s recycled and Robertson has a low diagonal effort saved by Hornicek.