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NEWCASTLE (4-3-3):\n<\/p>\n
\n 6 Ramsdale: Made a decent first-half save from Reijnders, but didn\u2019t exactly exude confidence\n<\/p>\n
\n 6 Trippier: Tried his best down Newcastle\u2019s right, but looks in need of a rest with Livramento now back\n<\/p>\n
\n 5 Botman: Couldn\u2019t contain Marmoush, even if he won a few headers when City played the ball into the box\n<\/p>\n
\n 6 Thiaw: Battled away gamely at the heart of Newcastle\u2019s back four \u2013 his commitment can\u2019t be faulted\n<\/p>\n
\n 5 Hall: Had a difficult night against the lively Savinho \u2013 allowed the ball to go past him for City\u2019s first goal\n<\/p>\n
\n 4 Willock: Was outplayed by Manchester City\u2019s midfielders and wasted a decent chance in the second half by firing over\n<\/p>\n
\n 7 TONALI: Newcastle\u2019s best player by a distance \u2013 was trying to hold the midfield together on his own\n<\/p>\n
\n 4 Woltemade: More evidence that his switch to midfield is no longer working \u2013 couldn\u2019t get anywhere near City\u2019s midfielders\n<\/p>\n
\n 5 Elanga: Was lively in the opening 20 minutes or so, breaking forward, but quickly dropped out of the game once City began to control things\n<\/p>\n
\n 5 Osula: Couldn\u2019t make the most of a rare start \u2013 wasted an early break by failing to get the ball under control\n<\/p>\n
\n 6 Barnes: Opened the scoring with an excellent finish and carried a threat down Newcastle\u2019s left\n<\/p>\n
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Subs:\n<\/p>\n
\n 6 Joelinton (for Elanga, 62): Added some much-needed midfield bite \u2013 should have started\n<\/p>\n
\n 5 Wissa (for Osula, 62): It said a lot that he was left on the bench with Osula starting\n<\/p>\n
\n 5 Burn (for Trippier, 62): Newcastle were well and truly on the back foot by the time he was introduced\n<\/p>\n
\n Gordon (for Woltemade, 72)\n<\/p>\n
\n Livramento (for Hall, 79)\n<\/p>\n
\n (not used): Pope (gk), A Murphy, J Murphy, Neave.\n<\/p>\n
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MAN CITY (4-3-3):\n<\/p>\n
\n Trafford 6; Nunes 6, Khusanov 8, Stones 8, Ake 7; Gonzalez 6, Reijnders 8, O\u2019Reilly 7; Savinho 8 (Cherki 79), MARMOUSH 9 (Semenyo 73), Doku 7 (Foden 79).\n<\/p>\n
\n Subs (not used): Donnarumma (gk), Dias, Guehi, Ait-Nouri, Rodri, Silva.\n<\/p>\n
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Man Of The Match: OMAR MARMOUSH \u2013 Half of the Egyptian\u2019s goals as a Manchester Cty player have come against Newcastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWCASTLE (4-3-3): 6 Ramsdale: Made a decent first-half save from Reijnders, but didn\u2019t exactly exude confidence 6 Trippier:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-463972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}