NUFC V Spurs Roundup

By Carys Baptist
August 21 2004

Newcastle Uniteds second game of the season and the Toon’s first home fixture and Spurs showed they meant business my scoring a 51st minute goal.

Stats:

Corners: Newcastle 13 Spurs 3

Yellow Cards: Newcastle 1 Spurs 2

Red Cards: Newcastle 0 Spurs 0

Shots on target: Newcastle 6 Spurs 8

Shots off target: Newcastle 6 Spurs 7

Newcastle Uniteds second game of the season and the Toon’s first home fixture and Spurs showed they meant business my scoring a 51st minute goal.

Robson had just one change in his first team compared to last week and that saw Robbie Elliot dropped and being replaced by Andy O’Brien.

Thimothee Atouba scored after the half time break much to the delight of new manager Jacques Santini.

Newcastle new boy Stephen Carr faced his former team mates in a game, which saw plenty of speed in Jermaine Jenas and Craig Bellamy and also Laurent Robert’s temper rise.

The Frenchman was booked in the 68^th minute along with Tottenham’s Jamie Redknapp but was lucky to escape being red carded after a showing match with Redknapp and also firing the ball at spurs keeper Robinson.

Sir Bobby left Kieron Dyer on the bench as Newcastle launched their attack on the ambitious spurs side but the midfielder has subbed in a triple substitution in the 77^th minute along with Ameobi and Patrick Kluivert replacing Jermaine Jenas, Laurent Robert, and James Milner.