Newcastle 0-1 Everton: Barry winner deepens Jaissle’s problems

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Thierno Barry tapped in after a mistake by Newcastle goalkeeper Horníček four minutes into the second half, and Everton led 1-0 at St James’ Park as the game went into eight minutes of stoppage time on Monday night. It was the sides’ second meeting in five days, after Everton’s 3-1 Carabao Cup win on Merseyside last Thursday. Seeing the toffee’s doing the double of Newcastle in league and cup.

Everton were the better side for most of the night. Barry air kicked a blatent goal scoring opportunity in the first half which any Premier League striker would be disappointed to not see hit the back of the net. Harrison Armstrong sliced the best chance of the half wide just before the break. Newcastle came closest after the hour, when Anthony Elanga’s close-range shot hit the post and spun back out.

Line-ups

Newcastle: Horníček; Dedic, Schär, Burn, Hall; Joelinton, Gonzalez; Elanga, Willock, Barnes; Osula.

Everton: Pickford; O’Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Garner, Armstrong, Dewsbury-Hall; Röhl, George, Barry.

Matthias Jaissle made two changes from Thursday’s cup defeat. Elanga made his first start since 8 September and Joelinton came in, with Jacob Ramsey and Jacob Murphy dropping to the bench. Jarrad Branthwaite returned for Everton after completing concussion protocols, and Armstrong came back into midfield. Jack Grealish was not in the squad: Everton’s website said he was not match fit, after David Moyes called his cup omission a club decision. The referee was John Brooks who showed two quick consecutive red cards at the end of second half to Jacob Ramsey giving him his marching orders. The second yellow could of easily been a straight red.

First half: Everton on top, but no shots on target

Everton started the brighter. Moyes moved Merlin Röhl from right-back to the right wing, with Jake O’Brien at right-back and Branthwaite alongside James Tarkowski. Harvey Barnes, on his 100th Premier League appearance for Newcastle, put in two early crosses from the left, but neither found a team-mate.

Joelinton turned and shot from inside the box after 16 minutes, but Tarkowski headed it behind, and Dan Burn could not find the target from the corner. Röhl lifted a shot over the bar from a good position after Barnes slipped.

Everton should have led after 24 minutes. Branthwaite headed a deep free-kick down into Barry’s path with the goal at his mercy, but the striker waited for the ball to drop and missed it completely. “That is a golden chance,” said Sky Sports co-commentator Andy Hinchcliffe.

Burn was booked for bringing down Barry on the edge of the box after 32 minutes, and James Garner drove the free-kick into the wall. Jordan Pickford tipped over a looping deflection off Will Osula from a Barnes shot, and Joelinton drove wide after Newcastle won the ball back in midfield. In stoppage time Dewsbury-Hall crossed for O’Brien, who could not quite stretch to it, and then Armstrong was found unmarked by a cut-back but sliced wide with his instep.

Neither side had a shot on target in the first half. “They’ve been poor, and the supporters have let them know how poor they’ve been,” Jamie Carragher said on Sky Sports at half-time. “Everton have been far the better side. David Moyes will be pleased but disappointed that they’re not 1-0 in front.”

Second half: Barry punishes Horníček

The goal came in the 49th minute. Dewsbury-Hall played George in behind, George’s shot squirmed under Horníček, and Barry was there to tap into the empty net. VAR checked George and Barry for offside, and Schär’s claim that Barry had caught him with an elbow in the build-up, before the goal stood. Schär needed treatment, and George was booked for kicking the ball into the crowd.

“Defensively for Newcastle, it is truly shocking,” said Hinchcliffe. “It’s terrible goalkeeping as well, he doesn’t get down quickly enough.” It was Barry’s eighth goal in all competitions this season; among Premier League players, only Erling Haaland has scored more.

Horníček saved from Branthwaite’s header, then twice in quick succession from a Dewsbury-Hall long-range shot and an O’Brien header from the corner. Jaissle sent on Steur and Wissa for Gonzalez and Willock after 64 minutes.

Newcastle came closest to an equaliser two minutes later. Elanga reacted at the back post and squeezed a shot under Pickford, but it hit the post and spun back out, and Everton cleared the scramble. “It’s a combination of Pickford and the post,” said Hinchcliffe. “The spin of the ball takes it from in to out.”

Schär made a vital sliding tackle on Barry after Everton broke from a Newcastle mistake, and VAR checked and cleared the challenge. Moyes was booked for his protests. Murphy and Ramsey replaced Joelinton and Elanga, and Ramsey drove a low shot just wide of the post after 79 minutes. Everton replaced Barry with Johnson, and Branthwaite with Keane, after Branthwaite appeared to be limping. Toure came on for Dedic.

Wissa had Newcastle’s first shot on target after 85 minutes, straight at Pickford. In the 90th minute Toure picked out Wissa, whose turned shot was kept out by Pickford’s right leg. “This is a brilliant stop,” said Hinchcliffe. Eight minutes of stoppage time were added, and Everton sent on Hackney for George.

What it means

If the score stays the same, Everton will have won three games in a row at St James’ Park for the first time in 91 visits, and moved above Newcastle in the Premier League table. Newcastle have now failed to keep a clean sheet in 14 home league games in a row, the longest run in their league history.

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