Sol Campbell made a good start to his Newcastle United career tonight when the Newcastle reserves beat Sunderland Reserves 3-1 at the Stadium of Light.
Nile Ranger congratulates Lovenkrands after Peter scores penalty
Campbell played 45 minutes of tonight’s 3-1 win, but the game was spoiled by Spanish striker Xisco, being handed a red card for kicking out at Jordan Cook, late in the first half.
At that time Newcastle were 2-0 up with goals from Nile Ranger and Peter Lovenkrands, with Peter again scoring from the penalty spot after Ranger was brought down by Sunderland goalkeeper Trevor Carson.
Campbell, who turns 36 on 18th September was signed as a free agent last month, and this was his first game in the famous black and white stripes of Newcastle, and he was replaced at the half by 20 year-old Ben Tozer.
Ryan Taylor made it 3-0 with another good free kick on 60 minutes, and even though Newcastle were down to only 10 men, Sunderland still found it difficult to get back into the game.
Cook did score a late consolation goal from the penalty spot, and Ryan Noble hit the post, but it was all too little too late for a well beaten Sunderland side.
A good win by Peter Beardsley’s Newcastle Reserves side tonight.
TEAMS
Sunderland: Trevor Carson, Marcos Angeleri, Blair Adams, Adam Reed, Michael Kay, George McCartney, Robbie Weir, Jack Colbeck, Ryan Noble, Jordan Cook, Andy Reid.
Subs: Liam Bagall, Ben Wilson, Nathan Luscombe, Dan Madden, Matthew Fletcher.
Newcastle United: Tim Krul, James Tavernier, Paul Dummett, Ryan Donaldson, Sol Campbell, Matthew Grieve, Ryan Taylor, Brad Inman, Nile Ranger, Xisco, Peter Lovenkrands.
Subs: Ben Tozer, Ole Soderberg, Jeff Henderson, Phil Airey, Greg McDermott.
Referee: Tony Harrington
83 comments so far
Tom4Nufc
Sep 1, 2010 at 12:31 AM
Comment #1Good work lads, shame Xisco ruined it!
Howay The Lads
Sep 1, 2010 at 12:51 AM
Comment #2More like Xisco MADE it 😉
Legend.
Charlietoon
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:02 AM
Comment #3It like the same characters are causing problems for other teams. I think Ranger should be on the bench at the very least for the next few games. I dont think well see any flash tactics from CH.
………Harper
Rtayl.Will.Collo.Jose
Rought…Nolan..Barton.Jonas
……….Arfa
………………..Carroll
Subs. Ranger, Smith, Sol, Guthrie, Loven,
I hope we start Arfa over Smith and show a real intent to put the game away before half time. If we can get a few goals then we can give some others a chance like Barton for Guthrie or Hatem for Lovenkrands. I hope Caroll can get over his ankle injury but if he cant then I say we start Loven or Ranger up front. I wish we ‘d haman
cooldj
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:02 AM
Comment #41stly campbell wasn’t playing in black n white ed!!
secondly far from being “another good fk from Raylor” it was a back pass. mcloven took the fk quickly and simply squared to raylor who couldn’t really miss.
Charlietoon
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:04 AM
Comment #5I wish we’d managed to off load Ameobi or Xisco over the last few days.
Charlietoon
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:05 AM
Comment #6Any chance of seeing the goals?
Purely Belter
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:06 AM
Comment #7every win over scum sunderland is brilliant.
I hate tottenham
Brutooon
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:13 AM
Comment #8tiote over smith
Ben Arfa over routledge
a.l 9
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:16 AM
Comment #9“I wish we’d managed to off load Ameobi or Xisco over the last few days.”
Then we would have had 3 recognisable strikers…
Purely Belter
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:31 AM
Comment #10i think routledge will be replaced by ben arfa. nolan will stay in his role behind carroll and tiote will go in for smith.
that would probably be our strongest line up
mattnufc
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:40 AM
Comment #11I reckon Hughton will start with the same starting line-up. Ben Arfa will come on at ~70 mins and Campbell will start the game after Blackpool
rkw
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:45 AM
Comment #12“and this was his first game in the famous black and white stripes of Newcastle”
Looks like they’re wearing blue to me mate. :-p
“I wish we’d managed to off load Ameobi or Xisco over the last few days.”
Sillyness. Shola is fine cover for Carroll, I’ll give that we won’t look near as strong if he has to do the heavy lifting with goalscoring, but a slight tactical shift if Carroll goes down, and Shola will be able to help this team weather that storm if need be.
I don’t agree on Xisco either, but I don’t feel so strongly on it as to make a case.
Howay The Lads
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:57 AM
Comment #13matt, agree about Ben Arfa. But Williamson and Coloccini have been undroppable so far, and unless we do a Wigan against Blackpool they’ll definitely stay in.
Purely Belter
Sep 1, 2010 at 2:10 AM
Comment #14interesting to see what happens when guthrie and gosling are fit.
will make it one hell of a battle at training to get into on of those spots.
cant wait to see the new guys play inc gosling
BlacknWhiteBlood
Sep 1, 2010 at 2:14 AM
Comment #15Harper
Perch
Enrique
Colo
Williamson
Routledge
Jonas
Smith
Barton
Nolan
Carroll
CH should stay with an unchanged starting 11 for Blackpool with:
Krul, R Taylor,Campbell, Tiote, Ben Arfa, Ameobi, Lovenkrands
on the bench.
Howay The Lads
Sep 1, 2010 at 2:18 AM
Comment #16BlacknWhite, that is player for player with what I would go for. Even the subs too
Brutooon
Sep 1, 2010 at 4:08 AM
Comment #17Alan Smith should be backup player at BEST.
Barton,Nolan,Tiote,Guthrie,Gosling are our main centre midfielders. (tough decision there)
balubas1
Sep 1, 2010 at 5:11 AM
Comment #18Marcus Pedersen sold to Vitesse Arnehem for 1.2 mill £££
balubas1
Sep 1, 2010 at 5:14 AM
Comment #19purely belter:
yes, But now we have COVER! All the top clubs have cover in midfield. U need it to last a whole season.
We got several decent strikers also, which is just as important.
My guess is top 8 this year. Being optimistic:)
Being realistic, I dont think we’ll go lower than 12th with this squad.
ginkoh
Sep 1, 2010 at 5:33 AM
Comment #20Smith played good game against Villa and Wolves so it’s hard for Tiote to break him down now. 2 weeks to go, we’ll wait to see who’s better in training and deserved to get starting 11 against Blackpool.
Maybe both Tiote and Smith will no play that game because we will pay attention to attack them, I will go for :
GK – Harper
RB – R.Taylor (more crossing and good form)
LB – Jose
CB – Willo and Colo (I don’t think Solo will fit enough but don’t mind if he can)
MC – Barton and Nolan (forward intercept)
AML – Jonas
AMR – Routledge
AMC – HBA
ST – Carroll
We can change it into 4-3-3 by sub Smith or Tiote for jonas and Loven for Routledge to
Nolan – Smith – Barton
HBA – Carroll – Loven
Good on paper, isn’t it ?
xfer
Sep 1, 2010 at 6:39 AM
Comment #21Xisco is now a legend!
tysontoon
Sep 1, 2010 at 7:17 AM
Comment #22Our best team when healthy IMO:
Krul
Gosling – Williamson – Sol – Jose
Tiote Barton
Ben Arfa Nolan Jonas
Carroll
harper – backup keep
Colo, S. Taylor – backup CB’s (both solid as starters also)
Routledge – On for tired Jonas/HBA
R. Taylor – Replaces Nolan when we need offense. Raylor to RB, Gosling to RM, HBA to forward
Lovo, Shola, Ranger – backup forwards or replace Nolan when tired.
Guthrie – backup CM
This is just what I would do for starters… i could see lots of players forcing their way into the starting lineup however.
Sinner
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:01 AM
Comment #23I said when injury free,the team imo should look like this:
……………Harper
S.taylor…Colo….Sol…Jose
……..Tiote…..
…………………….Guthrie……..
…………….Nolan………………
HBA………………………Jonas
……….Caroll
Sub:Krul,R.Taylor,Perch,Willo,Smith,Xisco,Ameobi,Ranger
Send Best to reserve,I would risk playing him on the field,every occasion we get in there is crucial and im confident he will blew them away.
Ive been looking at the premier league highlights the other day,Every teams in PL deserve to be it.Bookies have placed us to be relegated,we will prove them wrong.
Bookies for wolves place us to lose,we draw.
We need to prove them wrong.
Toon Sweden77
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:23 AM
Comment #24Goodmorning all!
The squad looks quite good after this window with 5 good looking players comming in. Very well done CH, DL and MA.
Are there any chance that we will hear: Ashley, Ashley give us a wave!! @ ST James Park when we face Blackpool?? 🙂
Captain Beefheart
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:31 AM
Comment #25I rub my eyes in disbelief at times at the fantasy teams our ‘bloggagers’ see fit to submit.
Noticeable is the sheer level of naivety / disloyalty / blindness (take yer pick) in immediately bringing in a 36 year old, still unfit temp in place of either the majestic Colo (@22) or his able partner Willo (@23).
How is this team building exactly? Sol will be here one season at best, why we would exclude Colo (who should be captain imho) is beyond any post-Grecian logic system. The alternative exclusion of Willo also beggars belief as the prime rule for centre backs is the sum should be greater than the parts – and such is the developing partnership between these two.
And the cause of this? One S Taylor, who IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE. If he had sorted his contract out last May we wouldn’t have had to sign Sol and could be building a solid defence from our players for the next 3 seasons or more. Instead we had to conscript a honeymooning mercenary who just happens to live down the road. Not good enough!
lewman
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:44 AM
Comment #26does colo ever get injured, i cant seem to remember him having any injurys but my memory is bad so i could be wrong but i do remember hearing that he played every game in his two prior seasons to joining us.
Toon Sweden77
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:45 AM
Comment #27C´mon Captain – Agree with you that Sol shouldnt “walk” into the starting lineup but with his expirience – hes a very valuable member of the squad and the youngsters can learn at lot from him.
batty
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:56 AM
Comment #28stardust are u aboot
batty
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:59 AM
Comment #29toon sweden77 dont know if ya have seen sol much but he is abit slow nowadays
noir9
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Comment #30Why change a winning (drawing team) ? Smithy has started this season just aswell as he started last season & was very good against villa, but people want him dropped for Tiote who they probably only saw in the w/c & change a solid looking defence to fit in campbell. The new guys have to earn a place pushing the 1st teamers for their starting place, saying that I hope afra is involved against blackpool. The great thing is that we now have some quality options.
jjjayjayuk
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Comment #31Team That I would pick againast Blackpool:
Krul
Williamson Collocini Enrique
Tiote
Barton Nolan Jonas
Ben Arfa
Carroll
Team Hughton Will Play:
Harper
Perch Williamson Collocini Enrique
Toon Sweden77
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Comment #32The team that has started this season has done it brilliant and i think that as long as it continues, let them play and if someone drops in form – replace him with another.
Thats just me – you might think diffrent.
Batty, has not seen Sol play this year but who has? Still, he has a lot of expirience at this level and I think he might become a good member of the team.
lewman
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:10 AM
Comment #33jjjjay who would you play at rb
Angryman the Angry fan
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:12 AM
Comment #34Jjjay Jay Uk.
Why would he play only 10 people?
And why whine about the teams hughton picks? Not done so badly up to now!!
wolf
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:14 AM
Comment #35do yous reckon we have strenght in depth,i would of liked a few more bodies in like,i think we will be ok,but would of been nice to get a few more in.
in hughton we trust
Angryman the Angry fan
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Comment #36Batty,
I have several mates who are ardent gooners! They tell me sol has only lost a fraction of his pace and would still give 95% of epl strikers a run for their dosh! So stop talking out your arse!!
batty
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:23 AM
Comment #37Batty,
I have several mates who are ardent gooners! They tell me sol has only lost a fraction of his pace and would still give 95% of epl strikers a run for their dosh! So stop talking out your arse!!
<<<<<< dont give a fck how many gooners mates u got knob rot he has lost alot of his pace the only thing he has going for him is expirience prick
short trousers
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:26 AM
Comment #38aye batty.moondust you no nowt about footbal you dont even go to games stay on .org workys blog
hes using toonsy and as stardust says keeping all the money for his self
rich
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:28 AM
Comment #39someone on the previous story reckons we’ve signed Nassim Boukhelifa. i believe he’s a free transfer, but nothing confirmed on NUFC.co.uk
batty
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:31 AM
Comment #40short trousers // Sep 1, 2010 at 9:26 AM
aye batty.moondust you no nowt about footbal you dont even go to games stay on .org workys blog
hes using toonsy and as stardust says keeping all the money for his self<<<<< ya funny as fck yee like glad ive got another fan ile send u a signed photo 😆