An early purpose from Sandro Tonali and a late Bruno Guimarães effort gave Newcastle United a 2-0 house win over Chelsea on Sunday that strikes the Magpies a step nearer to Champions League soccer subsequent season, with Blues striker Nicolas Jackson denting his facet’s hopes by being despatched off within the first half.
The win leaves Newcastle in third spot on 66 factors, three forward of Chelsea, who maintain the fifth and remaining Champions League spot with two video games to play.
Aston Villa are stage with Chelsea on factors, with Nottingham Forest, who face already-relegated Leicester Metropolis in a while Sunday, two factors additional again.
Newcastle have been good worth for his or her win nevertheless it was Jackson’s second of insanity that determined the sport, robbing Chelsea of their greatest goal-scoring choice in a sport the Convention League finalists couldn’t afford to lose in the event that they wished to be at Europe’s high desk subsequent season.
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The Blues bought off to a nasty begin when midfielder Tonali ghosted in on the far publish to steer house a move from Jacob Murphy within the second minute, delighting the house crowd as they basked within the vivid sunshine.
Newcastle’s activity appeared to get simpler when Jackson had his preliminary yellow card upgraded to a pink within the thirty fifth minute after an extended VAR evaluate, with the replay exhibiting that the Senegalese striker had regarded within the path of Newcastle’s Dan Burn earlier than main together with his elbow in the direction of the defender’s face.
Regardless of happening to 10 males, Chelsea dominated for a lot of the second half, forcing Eddie Howe to make quite a lot of modifications to bolster the house facet’s defence and,after withstanding Chelsea’s onslaught,Guimaraes lastly sealed the three factors with a deflected shot from outdoors the field within the ninetieth minute.
