A summary of Newcastle United’s loss at Chelsea, and Sunderland’s win against Oxford United over the weekend, Daniel Wales reports, with Jordan Cronin and Phil Smith.
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00:00We start at Stamford Bridge where Eddie Howe and Newcastle United were looking to bounce
00:07back from their home loss against Brighton last weekend.
00:10Jordan Cronin reports.
00:14Chelsea 2, Newcastle United 1 here at Stamford Bridge this afternoon.
00:20A difficult one to sum up I would say, but it's now five games without a Premier League
00:27win for Newcastle United and that's the thing I would say about Newcastle today, I would
00:33say this Newcastle team currently is very predictable.
00:38Look today, look at that performance, if you want to take some positives from it or a lot
00:43of positives, it depends what you want to look at, I thought Newcastle did compete with
00:46Chelsea after a torrid 20 minutes when Cole Palmer and Nicholas Jackson, two aps who treads
00:52out Newcastle United's midfield and defence, Dan Byrne and Fabian Schaer really did struggle
00:56to deal with those.
00:57Those two players led to the opener from Nicholas Jackson but Newcastle sort of grew into the
01:04game off of that and levelled through Alexander Isaac, great team move, team livermento right
01:09at the heart of it.
01:10It was all across, Isaac couldn't miss from close range but immediately after the second
01:17off they shoot themselves in the foot, Isaac giving the ball away, Cole Palmer running
01:24right through, easy for Cole Palmer and Nick Pope didn't make it difficult for Cole Palmer,
01:30I thought Nick Pope should have done that over that and of course at the other end as
01:32well Newcastle should have equalised, Isaac chinks into the box, got Jordan in free with
01:38an open goal, decides to detain himself, completely messes it up and the chance goes begging.
01:44Now to the Stadium of Light where Phil Smith summarised Sunderland's encounter with Oxford
01:49United following victory last time out away at Luton Town.
01:53What a win for Sunderland, that's now 28 points from 12 games, what an incredible start of
01:58the season and for me I thought today was the most complete performance they've produced.
02:02I think at different times this season we've seen them show every part of the game that
02:05you want to see but never at the same time.
02:08So we've seen really resilient defensive performances like at Luton, we've seen really good counter-attacking,
02:13we have seen it at home, we've seen them sort of blow teams away with a spell of pressing
02:17with a spell of really good football.
02:18Today I thought they were able to put it all together, I thought some of the football was
02:22as good as anything we saw under Tony Mowbray, the little interplay down the right-hand side
02:27with Roberts, the way the midfield three kept passing it through the press, it was a real
02:30sort of treat to watch and at the other end they barely gave up a chance.
02:34And OK, Oxford might not be the strongest opponent that Sunderland will face all season
02:37but they're not to be taken lightly, they've drawn the last five games, they got draws
02:40with Burnley and West Brom in that time.
02:42So I think for Sunderland to exert such complete control over the game is something that's
02:46really exciting and it's maybe the first time that I've actually gone, hang on are we looking
02:49at a genuine promotion contender here?
02:52Of course there's still a lot of football to be played but I think to see them play
02:54at that level for 90 minutes was so exciting.