Newcastle are still without an away win this season after Brentford won a chaotic and controversial encounter 3-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Magpies, who have not tasted victory on the road since April, took the lead through Harvey Barnes.<\/p>\n
But they quickly found themselves caught up in a maelstrom of long throws, VAR controversies and a red card — all in a day\u2019s work for the Bees at the Gtech Community Stadium.<\/p>\n
After Kevin Schade equalised referee Stuart Attwell and VAR Paul Tierney took centre-stage, the former denying Brentford what looked a clear penalty for a foul by Dan Burn — instead booking Dango Ouattara for a dive — and the latter surprisingly agreeing.<\/p>\n
But, lo and behold, a few minutes later when Ouattara went down again under Burn\u2019s challenge, Attwell this time pointed to the spot and showed the hapless Burn a second yellow card.<\/p>\n
Igor Thiago rolled in the penalty and added a third in stoppage time to condemn Newcastle to more misery on their travels on the fourth anniversary of Eddie Howe\u2019s appointment as manager.<\/p>\n
Brentford set the tone for a breathless afternoon after a quarter of an hour when their brand of set-piece mayhem almost paid dividends.<\/p>\n
Nick Pope scrambled to prevent Mikkel Damsgaard\u2019s delivery from curling in at the far post and in the ensuing goalmouth scramble, Thiago\u2019s shot was blocked.<\/p>\n
It was Newcastle who took the lead in the 28th minute after Nick Woltemade helped on a cross from Jacob Murphy.<\/p>\n
Barnes, only in the starting line-up due to an injury to Anthony Gordon, turned defenders Michael Kayode and Yehor Yarmolyuk one way and the other before drilling a low shot through the legs of Bees goalkeeper Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher.<\/p>\n
Brentford almost equalised when Pope made a mess of punching clear a Kayode long throw, but Aaron Hickey\u2019s drive was deflected wide.<\/p>\n
Pope was at fault for Brentford\u2019s equaliser, punching into thin air as Kayode\u2019s throw was flicked on and Schade stooped to head the second ball into an unguarded net.<\/p>\n
The controversy erupted when Ouattara tumbled, Burn protested his innocence and Attwell waved away Brentford claims for a spot-kick and flashed the yellow card instead.<\/p>\n
Replays showed Burn had clearly made contact with Ouattara\u2019s foot before he went down but Tierney upheld Attwell\u2019s decision, \u201cminimal contact\u201d was the official explanation.<\/p>\n
Then came the reprise; Ouattara brought down again by Burn. This one was maybe less convincing, but Attwell pointed to the spot.<\/p>\n
Pope, who somewhere amidst the bedlam had managed to get injured, was replaced by Aaron Ramsdale before the penalty, which was eventually rolled in by Thiago.<\/p>\n
Newcastle went close to an equaliser, but Rico Henry slid in to prevent a tap-in for Anthony Elanga.<\/p>\n
Instead their afternoon was summed up in stoppage time when a slide tackle by defender Malick Thiaw fell perfectly for Thiago to slot in number three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle are still without an away win this season after Brentford won a chaotic and controversial encounter 3-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[124939,49,48,124940,561,82],"class_list":["post-272599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-brentford-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-8267","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-newcastle-united-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-6151","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}