The National League North side – managed by former Magpie Steve Watson – made the short journey to The KNOX on Saturday for the behind-closed-doors clash at the end of United’s first week back in training ahead of the upcoming season. <\/p>\n
Howe fielded completely different XIs in each half, handing a debut to summer signing Sean Steur in the opening 45 minutes before fellow new boy Ewen Jaouen kept goal in the second period for a team largely made up of under-21 players. <\/p>\n
Newcastle dominated the ball but it took until the 29th minute for them to find a breakthrough against a well-organised Darlington side who had won each of their two pre-season friendlies so far, when Jacob Murphy crossed from the right and Willock turned home from close range. <\/p>\n
Six minutes later, Osula made it 2-0 as he converted confidently from the penalty spot after Willock went down under a challenge from Ben Hedley. <\/p>\n
The interval saw both managers ring the changes, with teenagers Neave and Trevan Sanusi the only Newcastle players boasting competitive first-team experience for the Magpies.<\/p>\n
And 19-year-old Neave – who made both his Champions League and Premier League bow last term – opened his account for the new season with a low shot following a strong run midway through the second half. New goalkeeper Jaouen was rarely tested as he kept a clean sheet in his first appearance following his move from Reims last month.<\/p>\n
The Magpies’ first public pre-season friendly of this summer comes against Gateshead next Saturday (kick-off 12:30 BST). Ticket details are here<\/a> while the game will also be streamed live on newcastleunited.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n Newcastle United (first half): Nick Pope, Leo Shahar, Alex Murphy, Sven Botman, Lewis Hall, Jacob Ramsey, Joe Willock, Sean Steur, Jacob Murphy, William Osula, Harvey Barnes<\/p>\n Newcastle United (second half): Ewen Jaouen, Mason Miley, Miodrag Piva\u0161, Luke Craggs, Dylan Charlton, Rory Finneran, Anthony Munda, Sean Neave, Trevan Sanusi, Park Seung-soo, Vakhtang Salia <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National League North side – managed by former Magpie Steve Watson – made the short journey to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699592","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\/699592","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=699592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}