Newcastle United captain Bruno Guimaraes scored straight from a corner as 10-man Burnley’s struggles continued at St James’ Park.<\/p>\n
Guimaraes’ moment of inspiration and a penalty from Anthony Gordon inflicted a sixth consecutive Premier League defeat on Burnley, who had defender Lucas Pires sent off in the first half.<\/p>\n
Burnley substitute Zian Flemming pulled one back from the spot in second-half stoppage time, after Newcastle midfielder Jacob Ramsey handled the ball, but it came too late for Scott Parker’s side.<\/p>\n
The Clarets made a fearless start but fell behind when Guimaraes stepped up on home soil once again.<\/p>\n
With Burnley no doubt expecting Guimaraes to target a team-mate from Newcastle’s first corner of the afternoon, the midfielder instead whipped the ball past former team-mate Martin Dubravka and into the far corner.<\/p>\n
Guimaraes become the first Newcastle player to find the back of the net directly from a corner in a Premier League game.<\/p>\n
Burnley crumbled and defender Pires was sent off just a few minutes later after taking down Anthony Elanga outside the area as the Swede raced through on goal following Gordon’s defence-splitting pass.<\/p>\n
Newcastle quickly made the most of the man advantage, earning a penalty deep into first-half stoppage time when Burnley midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu handled.<\/p>\n
Although referee Stuart Attwell did not give a penalty initially, the official was sent to the pitchside monitor for a second look by the video assistant referee and ruled that Ugochukwu’s arms were in an “unnatural position”.<\/p>\n
Up stepped Gordon, who sent Dubravka the wrong way to score his second penalty in as many games.<\/p>\n
Newcastle pushed for a third after the break – forward Yoane Wissa made his debut for the club as a substitute after recovering from a knee injury – but Dubravka made smart saves to deny Guimaraes and prevent centre-back Maxime Esteve turning the ball into his own net.<\/p>\n
Flemming made Newcastle sweat after scoring a penalty following another VAR intervention.<\/p>\n
But Newcastle – not without a scare – saw the game out to briefly move up to 10th place. They later dropped a spot to 11th after Liverpool’s draw at Leeds, while Burnley now sit five points from safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United captain Bruno Guimaraes scored straight from a corner as 10-man Burnley’s struggles continued at St James’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-334707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}