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Season 2009/20010 -
Match 1 |
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WEST BROM |
1 v 1 |
NEWCASTLE UNITED |
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Shelton Martis
39 |
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Damien Duff 55 |
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Date: |
Saturday 8th August 2009 |
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Venue: |
Hawthorns |
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Kick Off: |
5:30pm (BST) |
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Australian
Live TV:
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Foxsports 1 |
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Attendance: |
23,502 |
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Referee: |
Mike Dean (Wirral) |
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WBA: Carson, Olsson, Cech, Zuiverloon, Martis, Koren (Dorrans
73), Greening, Brunt, Mulunbu, Wood (Cox 81), Moore
Subs Not Used:
Kiely, Barnett, Teixeira, Beattie, Reid
Booked:
None |
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Newcastle:
Harper (Krul 46), R.Taylor, Coloccini, S.Taylor, Enrique, Nolan, Smith,
Duff, Gutierrez, Carroll (Barton 75), Ameobi (Ranger 90+2)
Subs Not Used:
Kadar, Geremi, LuaLua, Xisco
Booked:
Coloccini, Nolan |
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Post
Match Comments:
West Brom manager Roberto Di
Matteo:
"I'm disappointed about the result because we had plenty of chances.
Their goalkeeper made some fine saves, but the performance was quite
good.
We are creating chances, we are quite solid at the back as well. We were
a bit late when we conceded the goal, but I thought that going forward
we created enough chances to win the game.
Credit to Newcastle, you look at their team sheet and there are a lot of
international players there. It wasn't an easy game but I thought we did
well."
Newcastle caretaker manager Chris Hughton:
"I think on the balance of
chances it was a fair result.
It was certainly an entertaining, end-to-end game. I was delighted with
the players' response after going in 1-0 down at half-time.
They came out for the second-half and got the equaliser they deserved
and after that we had West Brom on the back foot.
We had a couple of good chances to take the lead and on another day I
think we would have left here with three points.
But let's not forget that Tim Krul has made some outstanding saves at
the other end."
On Steve Harper's injury:
"Steve went to hospital for precautionary checks as is normal with any
head injury. I haven't spoken fully with our medical staff yet but the
early news is that he is fine." |
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Steve Harper receives treatment after a
kick in the head from Shola Ameobi.
The amount Damien Duff equalised in the
second half. |
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Match Report: |
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A second half Damien Duff goal earned
Newcastle United a 1-1 draw against West Brom Albion in their opening
game of the new season in the Coca-Cola Championship.
Newcastle started the game quite brightly trying to play some positive
attacking football without creating any real goal scoring opportunities.
On 39 minutes West Brom defender Shelton Martis
broke the deadlock slightly against the run of play. Martis stabbing
home the ball from close range after the Newcastle defence failed to
clear the set-piece. In the scramble Steve Harper was injured when he
was kicked in the head by Shola Amoebi's vain attempt to clear the ball
off the line.
Harper managed to stay on the pitch for the remaining 6 minutes, but was
replaced at the start of second half by young Dutch goalkeeper Tim Krul.
And it was the Dutch keeper who turned out to be the hero for the
Magpies with some outstanding saves to deny West Brom. Krul reflexes
were tested by strikes from
Robert Koren and Luke Moore, then he saved well from Baggies substitute
Graham Dorrans.
However, it was Duff who levelled matters for Newcastle when Shola found
Kevin Nolan on the edge of the box, and his smart pass to Duff on the
right edge of the box saw the Irish International neatly slot home the
ball with a fine right footed strike.
Both sides had their chances to win the match, Nolan missing a golden
opportunity when he headed wide after being found in acres of space in
the box from a cross and West Brom had a goal disallowed in injury time
when the
linesman's flag correctly ruled out Jonas Olsson's header
Newcastle's football at times was pleasing, without being too
threatening, however too often a pass or a final ball would go woefully
astray. Jonas Gutierrez being the chief culprit, for all his
endeavour he usually ruined it with a poor cross or by tamely falling to
the ground looking for a free-kick.
A draw was probably a fair result for both sides, and with the Hawthorns
likely being one of the harder away grounds to visit this season,
Newcastle may feel reasonable happy with a point, but there is a lot of
work to do with this team if it is going to be consistently competitive
in the Championship. |
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