ZHAKENewcastle United lost 4-0 to Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday afternoon – here are the player ratings from the match.
Eddie Howe made two changes from Newcastle’s last Premier League match against Fulham a fortnight ago with Kieran Trippier coming in for Tino Livramento and Joe Willock replacing the injured Joelinton. There was also a triple injury boost from The Magpies’ previous match at Birmingham City in the FA Cup with Dan Burn recovering from a groin injury and Anthony Gordon coming straight back into the starting line-up after missing the trip to St Andrew’s.
Harvey Barnes returned on the bench after five weeks out with a thigh problem.
Newcastle hadn’t won a Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium and made things difficult for themselves on Saturday afternoon by going behind early on. With 19 minutes on the clock, City took the lead with Ederson’s long ball over the top getting the better of Trippier and allowing Omar Marmoush to break through and chip Martin Dubravka for his first goal for the club.
The Egyptian grabbed his and City’s second shortly after with an edge-of-the-box strike finding the bottom left corner. Marmoush then made it 3-0 with a hat-trick inside the space of 15 minutes.
That’s how the scoreline remained as the sides went in at half-time. Newcastle were able to keep Man City at bay for the majority of the second half before substitute James McAtee turned in a fourth for the hosts following a corner.
Anthony Gordon – 4
Got into a couple of dangerous areas but was often thwarted by the offside flag which made things easy for Rico Lewis.
Alexander Isak – 5
Had a good chance to pull a goal back but his effort deflected wide of the left post. Struggled to get involved otherwise and moved out to the left for the closing stages.
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