{"id":236548,"date":"2026-01-14T00:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/236548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:31:16","slug":"newcastle-0-2-man-city-jan-13-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/236548\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle 0-2 Man City (Jan 13, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antoine Semenyo<\/a> scored his second goal in as many games for his new club as Manchester City<\/a> secured a precious Carabao Cup<\/a> semifinal advantage over holders Newcastle.<\/p>\n

The \u00a362.5 million winger, who was eligible despite having already played for Bournemouth in the competition this season after a rule change, struck eight minutes after half-time before substitute Rayan Cherki<\/a> added a brilliant second at the death to ensure the eight-times winners will defend a 2-0 lead when the sides reconvene at the Etihad Stadium on Feb. 4 for the second leg.<\/p>\n

City might have travelled back across the Pennines with one foot firmly in the final had Semenyo not seen a second goal controversially chalked off following a review on a night when the Magpies were neither clinical nor stubborn enough to claim the foothold they needed for the return.<\/p>\n

Both managers demonstrated the depth of their squads despite injuries, Eddie Howe making seven changes to the side which edged past Bournemouth in the FA Cup third round on Saturday and Pep Guardiola five after a 10-1 demolition of Exeter the same day.<\/p>\n

Newcastle should have been ahead inside five minutes when Anthony Gordon<\/a> picked out Jacob Murphy<\/a> on the right with a fine ball and he crossed early for Yoane Wissa<\/a>, who controlled before slicing a left-foot shot wastefully over James Trafford’s crossbar.<\/p>\n

\"AntoineAntoine Semenyo celebrates scoring Manchester City’s opening goal against Newcastle.<\/p>\n

Alex Livesey – Danehouse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

City’s response was concerted as wide men J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku<\/a> and Semenyo pinned the Magpies back deep inside their own half, and Nick Pope<\/a> needed to get a touch on Bernardo Silva’s eighth-minute cross to flick it out of the path of the waiting Erling Haaland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joelinton<\/a> flicked a header wide from a 15th-minute Gordon cross after a rare Newcastle attack and with the Brazil<\/a> international taking no prisoners in midfield, the hosts began to establish themselves.<\/p>\n

Joelinton and Nico O’Reilly were both booked after an off-the-ball altercation and full-back Matheus Nunes<\/a> after a crude challenge on Gordon as the game descended into something of an arm wrestle.<\/p>\n

But for all the bluster and endeavour, an entertaining first half ended goalless and with neither keeper having made a save of note.<\/p>\n

Trafford, though, was at full stretch to claw away Wissa’s looping 50th-minute header and was relieved to see Bruno Guimar\u00e3es’ follow-up crash against the post as the Magpies threatened after the restart.<\/p>\n

However, it was the visitors who took the lead three minutes later when Silva touched Doku’s cross into the path of Semenyo, who stabbed home from close range.<\/p>\n

“He’s not just a very good player, but a very good guy, which helps, which fits into the team,” City captain Bernardo Silva told ITV Sport. “He’s a fantastic guy who wants to play collectively, wants to help, wants to have fun and we are delighted with the way he’s started.”<\/p>\n

Trafford claimed Guimar\u00e3es’ skidding 58th-minute strike and Sven Botman<\/a> headed against the keeper from a Lewis Hall<\/a> corner as Newcastle rallied, but they looked to have been undone once again with 63 minutes gone when Semenyo flicked substitute Tijjani Reijnders’ corner past Pope — only for the goal to be ruled out for offside against Haaland after a lengthy VAR review.<\/p>\n

Sandro Tonali<\/a> drilled a 71st-minute shot wide as the Magpies attempted to take advantage of their escape but Cherki, who had twice been denied by Pope, finally got his reward in the ninth minute of stoppage time when he exchanged passes with fellow substitute Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri<\/a> before slotting past the keeper.<\/p>\n

PA and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo scored his second goal in as many games for his new club as Manchester City secured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-236548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}