Barclays Premiership - Match 29

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Season 2008-2009

HULL CITY

1 v 1

NEWCASTLE UNITED
  Geovanni 9 Steven Taylor 38  
     
  Date: Saturday 14th March 2009
  Venue: KC Stadium
  Kick Off: 3:00pm (GMT)
  Australian Live TV: Foxsports 2 via viewers choice
  Attendance: 24,914
  Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire)
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Hull: Duke, Ricketts, Turner, Gardner, Kilbane, Mendy (Barmby 80), Ashbee, Zayatte, Geovanni, Fagan (Garcia 70), Cousin (Manucho 54)

Subs Not Used: Myhill, Dawson, Hughes, Halmosi
 
  Booked: Fagan, Zayatte, Garcia
   
Newcastle: Harper, Steven Taylor, Coloccini, Bassong, Jose Enrique, Smith (Ryan Taylor 75), Butt, Geremi, Gutierrez, Owen (Ameobi 73), Martins

Subs Not Used: Forster, Duff, Lovenkrands, Edgar, Carroll 
  Booked: Geremi, Coloccini, Smith
     
 

Post Match Comments:
 Caretaker interim Newcastle manager Chris Hughton:
 "We're disappointed we didn't get three.

I think having given a poor goal away first half we were delighted to get back on even terms. But we felt the way we conducted ourselves second half was like a team that wanted to go for a win rather than settle for a draw.

I think at that stage Hull had settled for a draw. So, yes, we are disappointed but we didn't show enough quality in the areas that mattered. 

I'm disappointed that we can't get the points we desperately need to get us away from that group of teams at the bottom of the league.

I think we can take something from the fact that we have come to a very difficult place and got a point, and other results have gone quite well for us, but we are still disappointed.

I don't think it's about pressure, there are now another nine games, but we realise the situation we are in and if we don't get results it is going to be a dogfight through until the end of the season. The quicker we can get those points the better.

We know where we are, we have 27 points to fight for and it is going to be equally as tough for all the teams around us."
Listen to the Chris Hughton interview

Hull boss Phil Brown:
"It was a scrappy affair, not a great spectacle in terms of football but there was a lot of nervous tension about, from both sides.

We came out of the traps and approached the game the right way and got in front with a great goal.

But then that lapse of concentration in the first half and we allowed a poor goal from our point of view."
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  BBC Sport Player Rater man of the match:
Newcastle's Jonas Gutierrez on 7.28 (on 90 minutes)		  
     
 

 
  Match Report:  
  Newcastle United drew 1-1 away to Hull City in a scrappy and nervy encounter between two relegation threatened sides.

Steven Taylor was Newcastle's unlikely goalscoring hero when he popped up in the box to level the game with a well taken volley on 38 minutes.

Nicky Butt picked up the ball from a Newcastle throw-in deep down the right and whipped in a low cross that Taylor turned expertly into the far corner.

Hull City had dominated the opening half an hour and on 9 minutes Brazilian Geovanni gave the Tigers a deserved lead.  A swift counter-attack started and finished by Geovanni who relished the chance to break from inside his own half after a Newcastle attack broke down.

Geovanni powered forward to release Craig Fagan down the left and then continued his run into the box to head firmly past Steve Harper after being picked out by a fine return cross.  Despite the fine move, the marking of the cross by the Newcastle defence was non-existent.

Hull will be the slightly happier of the two sides, as the point sees them stay four points clear of the relegation zone, while the draw between Middlesbrough and Portsmouth has Newcastle looking firmly over their shoulder.

Newcastle now face Arsenal and Chelsea in the next fortnight, and if Chris Hughton thinks a visit to Hull City is a 'very difficult place' then their top-flight status is looking very precarious to say the least.		  
 

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