Harvey Barnes struck twice while Newcastle beat Manchester United 4-1 in difficulty to climb to fourth place in the Premier League on Sunday. Newcastle was without manager Eddie Howe, who was admitted to the hospital on Friday after being bad in several days. But Barnes provided a welcome tonic for Howe, because its second half’s attack in St James’ Park stimulated Newcastle’s candidacy to qualify for the Champions League. With the assistants of Howe, Jason Tindall and Graeme Jones in charge of the winners of the League Cup, Sandro Tonali put Newcastle in mind before Alejandro Garnacho equalized in the first half.
Barnes stole the spotlight after the interval, becoming the first Newcastle player to score twice in a championship match against United since Alan Shearer in 2000.
Bruno Guimaraes punished an error by the goalkeeper of United Altay Bayindir, who started in the place of the Andre Onana abandoned, to seal the first transport of four goals from Newcastle against United since 2001.
In the race to reach the Champions League via a top five, Newcastle is only in one point behind the third forest of Nottingham.
They have a match in hand on the forest, as well as the fifth place of Manchester City and Chelsea, sixth, which are two points at the drift of the Magpies.
United has now won four games without victory in all competitions, letting them languish in 14th place with only six games to avoid their lowest finish since 1973-74, when they arrived 21st and were relegated.
They are already sure to undergo their worst points in total in the era of the Premier League, with the lowest of 58 in 2021-2022.
Ruben Amorim has made five changes in one eye on Lyon’s visit to Old Trafford for the quarter -final of the Europa League, on the second floor next Thursday, but United was blown away with embarrassing ease.
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Bayindir replaced Onana after the last display destroyed the Cameroon goalkeeper’s mistakes in the 2-2 draw from United in Lyon last Thursday.
But the 26 -year -old, signed by Fenerbahce in 2023, endured a first beginning of the Premier League.
Newcastle’s opening goal arrived at the peak of a fluid movement after the united midfielder Manuel Ugarte gave the ball in the 24th minute.
Kieran Trippier jumped forward and found Alexander Isak, who cleverly raised his pass on the defense for Tonali to drive a clinical finish in the corner furthest from an acute angle 10 meters.
It was the 19th time that United had conceded the first goal in a championship match this season – their greatest number in a single campaign in the competition.
With united out of synchronized once again, Tonali almost doubled his head while the Italian midfielder would curl up just from a distance.
Bayindir looked nervous when he hit the Tino Livramento cross directly in Isak, but he redeemed himself with a good rescue of the Swedish volley.
United completely equalized against the game of the game in the 37th minute.
Diogo Dalot was the catalyst with a bucken bucket which transported him to the edge of the Newcastle region, where he slipped a precise pass to Garnacho and the Argentinian winger pulled in front of Nick Pope.
After marked for the second time in 2025, Garnacho approached another when Pope moved away his explosion on the half-time.
But Newcastle returned to the head four minutes after half-time while the defense that flees United was raped again.
The Low Cross of Livramento was kept at the height by Murphy beyond the distant post and its pass in the box of six yards found that Barnes is not marked for a clinical finish.
Zirkzee was drinking to add to United’s difficulties after having crushed the lawn with an apparent injury to the hamstrings.
United was in disarray and Barnes delivered the blow to direct elimination in the 64th minute, dispossessed the Mazraoui to usir and clear to unravel a fierce strike in front of Bayindir.
In the 77th minute, Bayindir’s pass went directly to Jelinton, who nodded on the Guimaraes for a composed finish that rubbed salt in the gaping injuries of United.
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