Martin Odegaard’s stunner and Fabian Schar’s own goal settled a bad-tempered affair in the North East.
Browsing: Joe Willock
Callum Wilson’s composed finished after Clarets goalkeeper Nick Pope had spilt a cross from Joe Willock finally earned Newcastle three points. It was a huge relief for Eddie Howe’s side who won at the 15th attempt on what was a nervy afternoon on Tyneside.
Willock is understood to have cost the club up to £25million depending on a series of clauses in his contract.
Willock headed home a cross from Jacob Murphy just before halftime against already-relegated United.
Liverpool had opened the scoring at Anfield inside three minutes when Newcastle defender Ciaran Clark failed to clear a cross, allowing forward Mohamed Salah to control the ball and fire a left-footed half-volley into the roof of the net.
The Arsenal loanee, who scored a late equaliser against Tottenham on April 4th, went one better to condemn the Hammers — who would have gone third with victory – to a 3-2 defeat at St James’ Park, in the process sending Steve Bruce’s men nine points clear of the relegation zone with just six games to play.
Harry Kane’s double looked to have handed Spurs a sixth win at St James’ Park in seven visits when he struck twice inside four first-half minutes after Joelinton’s opener with his 28th and 29th goals of the season.
The World Cup-winning German had fallen down the pecking order at the Emirates Stadium this season, with Gabriel Magalhaes, David Luiz, Pablo Mari and Rob Holding all preferred by Mikel Arteta.
The result ensured that the Gunners topped their group after two games.
With the pressure on following back-to-back defeats to Man City and Brighton that had seen the Gunners slip into the bottom half, Nketiah took advantage of Alex McCarthy’s howler to open the scoring before Willock made the points safe late on after Jack Stephens had been sent off.
The match was played on Saturday
Saka has made three Premier League starts already and scored during the 3-0 Europa League win at Frankfurt.
Arsenal have secured their place in the fourth round of the FA Cup courtesy of a routine 3-0 win over League One Blackpool at Bloomfield Road on Saturday.
A youthful Gunners side made light work of the uprooted Ukrainian outfit as first-half goals from Emile Smith Rowe, Aaron Ramsey and Joe Willock put the result beyond doubt before the interval.