Newcastle United 3 Southampton 1
St. James’ Park… Saturday April 20th… 5.30pm
Attendance: 52,191
Premier League football secured for another season…
An excellent first half performance, and two Ayoze Perez goals gave us wahte we thought was a comfortable lead at the the break. In fact, it could, and should have been more…
Being Newcastle, we then had to suffer. Southampton rejigged at half time resulting in a much improved second half performance. Substitute Mario Lemina pulled one back on the hour, and Maya Yoshida missed and a sitter not long after. The collective nerves were jangling…
Fortunately we rallied, and Ayoze Perez put us out of our misery in the 85th minute, completing his hat trick and confirming our Premiership berth for 2019/20…
Will he still be here..? Will Rafa..? Who knows..?
Approaching Kick Off…
3-1 Up, Safety Approaching…
Newcastle United; Dubravka, Manquillo, Schar (Fernandez 69), Lascelles, Dummett, Ritchie, Perez, Ki Sung-yeung, Hayden (Diame 78), Almiron (Atsu 64), Rondon
Not Used; Shelvey, Muto, Yedlin, Darlow
Goals; Perez (27, 31, 86)
Southampton; Gunn, Stephens (Lemina 45), Yoshida, Bednarek, Ward-Prowse (YC), Romeu (YC), Hojbjerg, Bertrand, Sims (Armstrong 45), Redmond, Ings (Long 76)
Not Used; Austin, Forster, Slattery, Ramsay
Goals; Lemina (59)
As usual, more pictures to follow on flickr…
No Silverware 