Newcastle won 3-2 against Southampton during the game played this Saturday in the St. James’ Park. Newcastle United He approached the match with the intention of recovering his score in the classification after suffering a 2-1 defeat in the previous match against Crystal Palace. For its part, Southampton lost by a result of 9-0 in the previous match against Manchester United and accumulated four consecutive defeats in the competition. After the result obtained, the set of Newcastle is sixteenth, while Southampton it is twelfth after the end of the match.
The first team to score was Newcastle United, which premiered the luminous with a bit of Willock in the 16th minute. Newcastle at 26 minutes by means of a goal from Almiron. However, the set of Southampton closed the gap to 2-1 thanks to a goal from Minamino at 30 minutes. But later the local team distanced themselves through a new goal of Almiron, which in this way achieved a double at the edge of the end, in the 45th minute, concluding the first half with a 3-1 score.
The second half of the match started in an excellent way for Southampton, which cut differences in the light through a somewhat lack of Ward-Prowse moments after the resumption of the match, specifically in minute 48, thus ending the match with a final score of 3-2.
The technician of Newcastle, Steve Bruce, gave entry to the field Krafth, Joelinton Y Dummett replacing Manquillo, Wilson Y Saint-Maximin, while on the part of Southampton, Ralph Hasenhüttl replaced Nlundulu by Stephens.
The referee showed a total of five cards: three yellow cards to Newcastle (Hendrick, Krafth Y Darlow) and one to Southampton (Bednarek). In addition, there was a red card, specifically to Hendrick (2 yellows) by the home team.
With these three points, Newcastle ranked 16th with 25 points, while Southampton he was in twelfth place with 29 points at the end of the match.
On the next day Newcastle United will play against Chelsea at home and Southampton will play his match against Wolverhampton Wanderers at home.