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Newcastle Utd 6 |
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Lovenkrands (pen) 44 Lovenkrands 48 |
Steele s/o Bogdanovic |
The reds traveled to St. James Park home of league leaders and short term Championship visitors Newcastle United. Newcastle have been in great form at St. James not least in the last couple of games, and indeed this was a big test for a resurgent reds side.
We were matching the Geordies until the fateful moment when Luke Steele was given his marching orders just before the break, the resulting penalty, proving the catalyst for a bit of a second spanking for the ten men of Barnsley.
Luke Steele got his first ever red card in his career then the home side took apart our 10-man Barnsley. Steele got red a minute before half-time for a supposed trip on Peter Lovenkrands, who scored from the spot.
Lovenkrands later crossed for Danny Guthrie to hit home from 25 yards and Jonas Gutierrez hit a fine fourth for the Geordies, it was a case of damage limitation for the reds, it was always going to be a tough game with all 11 players, but with 10 against the top side in the division in front of their own fans it was all too much for Barnsley FC.
Guthrie scored direct with his free kick and it was Kevin Nolan who got Newcastles sixth, Daniel Bogdanovic got one back for the reds neatly placed in typical style making his personal tally to 11 for the season.
The game reached its pivotal point when Steele was sent off for being judged to have brought down Lovenkrands in the box, up to this time the reds matched Newcastle in all departments. So, it was a shame for us that our opportunity to produce a shock at St James was taken away.
Lovenkrands sent substitute keeper David Preece the wrong way from the penalty spot to give his side the lead and he got his second three minutes into the second half when Tykes skipper Stephen Foster allowed Carroll to cross for his strike partner, who finished well with his head.
Two minutes later Guthrie's effort from 22 yards was deflected past Preece and, from that moment it became a damage limitation exercise.
Gutierrez had a tricky run and and finished it off with stunning goal in off the underside of the bar and Newcastle into a 4-0 ahead and celebrated by producing a Spiderman mask from his pants! in front of a delighted crowd of 44,464 at St James' Park.
Newcastle got their fifth on 69 minutes as Guthrie's free-kick ended up in the back of the net, Nolan finished off the rout when he got round Preece to get the sixth two minutes later.
It could have been even worse for the reds, but Lovenkrands was denied a hat-trick when his 74th-minute header came back off the inside of the post, and Pancrate passed up an easy chance four minutes later.
Bogdanovic came on and pulled one back for the visitors after a mix-up between Fabricio Coloccini and Mike Williamson, but the home side might have increased their tally to embarrassing proportions as time ran down.
Newcastle manager Chris Hughton on Jonas Gutierrez:
"It was a wonderful goal. For us, the most important thing is his overall contribution and we can't fault that.
"He was excellent, a player playing with real confidence.
"As a player, I think the most important thing is if he keeps giving us contributions like that, we will certainly be happy with that."
Barnsley boss Mark Robins:
"The disappointment was the sending-off, because that was the pivotal moment in the game.
"It's dubious whether there was any contact made, but I am told by the referee now that the rule is that it's a trip or an attempt to trip in the penalty area, so I don't know.
"The goalkeeper tells me he didn't make any contact and Peter Lovenkrands confirmed that after the game. He never touched him, but he had to go down."
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