{"id":154338,"date":"2025-11-22T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154338\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:55:07","slug":"barnes-brace-sees-toon-disrupt-man-city-title-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154338\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes brace sees Toon disrupt Man City title momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Barnes fired Newcastle to a welcome 2-1 Premier League victory over Manchester City with a quickfire double in a thrilling encounter at St James&#8217; Park.<\/p>\n<p>The former Leicester winger struck after 63 and 70 minutes either side of Ruben Dias&#8217; equaliser to secure a first league success against City for head coach Eddie Howe at the 19th attempt.<\/p>\n<p>It could hardly have been better timed with Howe&#8217;s men sitting in 15th place, just a single point above the relegation zone, before kick-off on Tyneside with a tough Champions League trip to Marseille to come on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts almost got off to the perfect start when Joelinton pounced on Gianluigi Donnarumma&#8217;s ill-judged pass to Phil Foden, only for Barnes to shoot straight at the keeper.<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland was equally and uncharacteristically wasteful at the other end, scooping a left-foot effort harmlessly wide after being played through by Jeremy Doku.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Pope did well to get behind Rayan Cherki&#8217;s angled seventh-minute drive as City set up camp in the Newcastle half but Donnarumma pulled off a spectacular one-handed save to keep out Nick Woltemade&#8217;s powerful downward header from Jacob Murphy&#8217;s inviting 13th-minute cross.<\/p>\n<p>Tino Livramento made a vital block to deny Haaland after Doku had been allowed to race from his own half to feed him and Foden stabbed wide under pressure from Fabian Schar.<\/p>\n<p>Donnarumma came to the visitors&#8217; rescue once again with 26 minutes gone when, after Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali and Barnes had combined neatly to play him through, Woltemade was unable to find a way past the Italian.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes passed up a glorious 31st-minute opportunity to put the Magpies ahead when he steered a driven Murphy cross wide of the post while Pope somehow kept out Haaland&#8217;s snapshot from Nico O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s pull-back four minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Foden sidefooted wide from Cherki&#8217;s cross three minutes before the break, in the process failing to round off an incisive move he had started, but a pulsating half ultimately ended goalless.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manchester City's Portuguese defender #03 Ruben Dias (L) scores their first goal during the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Manchester City at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, north east England on November 22, 2025. (Photo by Oli SCARFF \/ AFP) \/ RESTRICTED T\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0023854e-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nRuben Dias lashed home the equaliser<\/p>\n<p>Haaland headed a 59th-minute Foden cross straight at Pope with Pep Guardiola&#8217;s men dominating possession but largely unable to pierce the black and white wall in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>They fell behind with 63 minutes gone after the hosts produced their first cohesive attack of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Joelinton poked the ball to Guimaraes for his fellow Brazilian to twice exchange passes with Barnes, who fired right-footed past Donnarumma from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n<p>City were level within five minutes when, after the Magpies had fail to deal fully with a Cherki corner, Dias blasted past Pope with a help of a deflection of Schar &#8211; but they were on level terms for just two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Guimaraes saw his header come back of the crossbar after Woltemade had returned the ball across goal but Barnes was on hand to stab home his second from close range.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors threw everything they had at the Magpies as time ran down but Howe&#8217;s men negotiated eight minutes of stoppage time without mishap to claim the points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harvey Barnes fired Newcastle to a welcome 2-1 Premier League victory over Manchester City with a quickfire double&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-154338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}