Newcastle United showed their hunger for goals against the next cellar dwellers on Saturday afternoon: 4-1 at Burnley FC, with goalscorer Wilson opening the scoring with a very special goal
Newcastle United’s run of form continues: With their fifth win from the past seven games, the Magpies are keeping the pressure on Manchester United and sixth place high. On Saturday afternoon, coach Eddie Howe’s team took advantage of their next rewarding task. Exactly one week after the 5:1 win against bottom-placed Sheffield United, penultimate-placed Burnley were put to the sword away from home.
Goalscorer Wilson opened the scoring in the 4-1 win: His ninth league goal in 19 appearances was one of the easier ones, the 32-year-old scoring from inside the five-yard box (19th). It was his 47th Premier League goal, meaning that only Shearer is ahead of him in the club’s internal ranking of Premier League record goalscorers – Beardsley (46) has been overtaken.
Newcastle were not satisfied after taking the lead and instead went one better before the break: Wilson initiated, the industrious and attack-minded Murphy set up and Longstaff made it 2-0 with a low shot into the far corner (35). A short time later, the game was already decided: Gordon set up Bruno Guimaraes, who shot into the far corner with ice-cold precision (40′).
It was the Brazilian’s fourth direct goal in the last five games. Even more impressive, however, are Gordon’s figures, who is now only the third Newcastle player in Premier League history to score at least ten goals and provide ten assists in a season. Fox (1994/95, 10 goals/11 assists) can still catch Gordon (10/10), Cole (1993/94, 34/13) is out of reach.
Isak quickly makes you forget his woeful penalty
After the break, Gordon could have scored again, but Isak miserably missed the penalty the Englishman had taken (52′). Three minutes later, however, the Swede was in the right place to make it 4:0 for the favorites (55′).
Only the clean sheet was not granted to Dubravka: Following a corner from Gudmundsson, O’Shea’s header dropped into the far corner to make the final score 4-1 from Burnley’s point of view (86′). The emphatic away win sees Newcastle climb to sixth place for the time being, a position Manchester United will be looking to reclaim against Crystal Palace on Monday evening.