Newcastle United defeated Ipswich Town 3-0 at St James' Park to move third in the Premier League table. Goals from Alexander Isak, Dan Burn and Will Osula sealed the win for Eddie Howe's side as the race for Champions League qualification intensifies.
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00:00Newcastle United are up to third in the Premier League table with a routine 3-0 win here over
00:06Ipswich Town in the Premier League. Now Newcastle came into the game obviously knowing that Chelsea
00:11had beaten Everton in the game before and knowing that the prize of going third in the table was a
00:16stake if they won but of course that win for Chelsea against Everton really put the pressure
00:20on them to get a win and keep their noses in front in this you know really tight battle for
00:25a Champions League qualification and they managed to do that with as I said before a routine win over
00:30Ipswich Town of course Ipswich relegated after that loss and other than the first I would say 10-15
00:35minutes it never really looked in doubt for Newcastle but they were made to work for it especially in
00:39those 10 minutes beginning obviously Eddie Howe back on the touchline after missing the last three
00:43games and it was good to see him back and you would have thought Newcastle would have really started
00:47with lots of intent lots of high pressing you know showing the best of Eddie Howe team with him and
00:52it didn't really happen to be honest Ipswich had a couple of early chances they had one cleared off
00:55the line early on and you know Newcastle didn't really settle in the game for about 10 minutes
01:00I would say 15 minutes and then they got into their rhythm they dominated a lot of the ball had a lot
01:04of possession but they couldn't really break down an Ipswich back line that was very resilient
01:08you know they put up a fight to be fair Ipswich certainly in their first period but then
01:13Ill Discipline really got the better of them I think they were they looked like a Championship team who
01:17you know couldn't handle the ability of of Newcastle going down to 10 men was never going to help
01:23their case and that happened Ben Johnson got two yellow cards and first for a simulation on the
01:28edge of Newcastle's box so Dan Burns fouling Ben Johnson I haven't seen it I won't lie but it seems
01:33you know the general consensus seems is it the Michael Solsby made the right call and just seven
01:38or eight minutes later he then fouls Alexander Isak and Isak flicks a ball around him he's heading into the
01:43box Ben Johnson pulls him back and that is a yellow card like it's a yellow card that you only see people get
01:49away with once have been yellow carded but and he wasn't fortunate this time referee showed him a
01:53book again and from that moment Newcastle United were absolutely dominant and they never looked
01:57back Alexander Isak scored a penalty just before half time to really settle the nerves around you
02:02I think they've gone into the break maybe a level there might be one or two nerves but that was you
02:07know Isak settled the nerves straight away but that was sort of only half the story the first half it was an
02:11absolutely chaotic sort of end to the first half the last 10-15 minutes I've talked about the red card
02:15Isak's penalty initially wasn't given by Michael Salisbury and for a foul by Julio and Seesaw on
02:21Jacob Murphy and Seesaw and Seesaw sorry pulled back Murphy but he was sent them on and it was given
02:26I think it was probably the right call to give it and you know I think I think there was a foul
02:32they obviously got some benefit from that Isak scored Isak has missed penalties but he put that one
02:36away earlier in that there'd been a VAR call for coming together between Sam Morsi and Joe Willock in
02:43the middle of the park and it was an off the ball incident didn't really see what happened but VAR
02:46checked it for violent conduct and that was quickly you know quickly confirmed that it wasn't a red
02:51card in that and yeah it was just it was just a chaotic first 45 I'm sure there was another VAR
02:58incident which would come back to me but yeah in the second half Newcastle made their dominance count
03:01Dan Byrne with a towering header and just his first Premier League goal this season of course his second
03:05of the campaign in all competitions we all remember that first one was of course at Wembley in the
03:10Carabao Cup final and then Will Assoula it was a bright spark after he came on he looked really
03:13good he came on for Jacob Murphy alongside Wilson who came on for Isak in the second half we were
03:1820 minutes ago and Assoula within a couple minutes of coming on got in the end it was a really good
03:22corner from Kieran Trippi on Assoula headed it back over the top of Palmer in the Ipswich goal it was a
03:28brilliant header from Assoula and yeah Newcastle ran out comfortable 3-0 winners they didn't really have
03:32to do too much they just you know especially in the second half kept the ball well didn't
03:36over commit too many players they don't have to because you know they've they've now got four
03:39really big games coming up they'll have a harder challenge in each one of them four games coming
03:42up and obviously Brighton next week it's a massive game but they had to win today not just with Chelsea
03:46winning but you have to beat teams like Ipswich town at home they've done that so you know hats off
03:50to them you've got to give them that they go five points above Villa in the table they stay above
03:54Chelsea they stay above Man City and Nottingham Forest at least until Thursday Man City and then Nottingham Forest
03:59of course in FA Cup action they meet on Sunday so they tomorrow as I'm recording Aston Villa
04:05play Crystal Palace tonight and they obviously played that game and had against City in the
04:09week and got beat that's why Newcastle are now five points ahead of them and Nottingham Forest
04:12play Brentford on Thursday so you know Newcastle will be third till at least Thursday if Nottingham
04:16Forest win that they'll go back above them but yeah it's they have to finish just above you know
04:20two of them teams and so far you know they've got the nose in front and they are the pace setters
04:24yeah that game against Chelsea in two weeks time look two weeks and a day's time looks massive but
04:30right now they'll be happy with that win and yeah Ipswich town you know gave as good as it got
04:34over the season just haven't been good enough and the fans enjoyed a big day out they to
04:38be fair a lot of them stayed after they pulled their team off you know I think the relegation
04:41has been on cards for a while now and of course they knew they had to win here and not just win
04:45here but win five games in a row and hope West Ham lost five games in a row and so it was never
04:50unlikely they were going to survive and their relegation is confirmed I've seen James Park but
04:54yeah back to Newcastle United it's a solid result in the race of Champions League and yeah now
04:59they've got four more games and four massive games it really is it can't be underestimated how big
05:03them games especially against Brighton next weekend then Chelsea week after I think get two wins from
05:07that they're almost there you know they're going to Arsenal in Everton on the finals they're going
05:11to Arsenal just for the final game season against heaven knowing that maybe just a point's enough
05:15but obviously we don't know what the Premier League salesman like but yes it was a big win they did I
05:19had to get a win and they did yeah just Newcastle will be really happy with maybe not their performance
05:26but just with a win and head to Brighton next week full of confidence that it's going to be a huge game
05:32and yeah the best we can see with all the news before from Eddie Howe and from the Kieran McKenna
05:38and whoever else speaks today and of course in the lead up to that Brighton game is with the Shields