Newcastle reached third place in the Premier League with a 5-0 Crystal Palace debate on Wednesday to end in the Champions League next season. Jacob Murphy, Harvey Barnes, Fabian Schar and Alexander Isak were on the target for the Magpies, Marc Guehi also marking its own goal, while Newcastle highlighted the absence of manager Eddie Howe due to pneumonia. A sixth consecutive victory in all competitions opens an advance of five points for Newcastle on Chelsea, sixth, with a place in the top five good enough for the qualification in the Champions League.
Palace remains at the bottom in 12th with their season now entirely focused on a semi-final date of the FA Cup with Aston Villa later this month.
Newcastle goes to Villa on Saturday in a huge confrontation in the battle for European places.
But the winners of the League Cup move away from the prosecution pack for a finish among the first five, supported by ending their 70 years of waiting for domestic silverware last month.
“It gave us great confidence,” said Deputy Director of Newcastle, Jason Tindall, who overtaked Howe, lifting the League Cup.
“We were able to take advantage of this for a while, but we knew what our goals were for the rest of the season – to finish as many as possible in the league painting.
“The manager directs and always gives this example of never going out. They went there, were really consistent and offering performance.”
Isak wasted two big chance of the first chances of opening the scoring when it was first refused by a beautiful backup of Dean Henderson, then went from the attractive cross of Murphy.
Newcastle had to wait until the 14th minute to open the scoring when Murphy exploded in a remarkable finish from a narrow angle.
Eze Fluffs penalty
Palace had the chance to return to the match when goalkeeper Nick Pope rushed at his line and wiped Chris Richards in his attempt to hit the ball.
After a long Var check, a penalty was finally granted.
However, Ebelechi Eze’s oriented foot kick was easily collected by the relieved pope.
In one minute, Newcastle had doubled their lead when Guehi turned into his own net when he was trying to block the barnes cross towards Isak.
The defender of England was regularly linked to a move to Tyneside and has now scored its own goal in each of the two palace meetings with Newcastle this season.
“There are days when nothing works, and at the same time, everything worked for Newcastle,” said the boss of the Palais Oliver Glasner.
“We could not manage their intensity, frankness and rhythm.”
This went from bad to worse for visitors while Barnes continued its beautiful shape with a finish composed for its fourth goal in three games.
Murphy’s free kick was then entered by Schar to do so 4-0 before the break.
The normally fatal Isak continued to be frustrated in front of the goal while Henderson spread to deny another effort from the range at close range at the start of the second half.
However, the Swedish striker finally obtained his 25th goal from the season with a good finish from outside the region just before the hour.
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