A controversial Anthony Gordon equaliser adopted by Alexander Isak’s winner noticed Newcastle come from a objective all the way down to beat Tottenham 2-1 for a sixth consecutive victory in all competitions.
After Dominic Solanke’s fourth-minute opener, Spurs had been left fuming with Gordon’s sixth-minute leveller after the ball hit Joelinton’s hand within the build-up however VAR allowed the objective to face as a result of “his arm was by his aspect, in a pure place and the contact was unintended”.
Ex-Premier League referee Mike Dean agreed with the choice on Soccer Saturday as Joelinton’s alleged handball “didn’t lead on to a objective” after the deflection fell to Bruno Guimaraes earlier than Gordon expertly completed previous Spurs debutant Brandon Austin.
Ex-Premier League referee Mike Dean insists Newcastle’s equaliser at Tottenham was appropriately allowed to face after an alleged handball from Joelinton
It meant Eddie Howe’s fifth-placed aspect piled extra distress on injury-ravaged Tottenham – who completed the sport with no recognised centre-back – to go away Ange Postecoglou’s aspect winless of their final six Premier League house video games and within the backside half of the desk in twelfth placing them nearer to the relegation zone than the highest 4.
New England head coach Thomas Tuchel, attending his first match as Three Lions boss, would have been delighted to see two English gamers rating the primary two targets in north London as Solanke headed Spurs right into a fourth-minute lead.
However simply 140 seconds later Gordon controversially equalised regardless of a prolonged VAR examine for Joelinton’s alleged handball.
A livid Postecoglou then noticed his aspect lose their momentum as Newcastle turned up the strain which finally informed within the thirty eighth minute as Isak maintained his red-hot kind with a scrappy close-range end to attain for a seventh consecutive Premier League recreation.
Alexander Isak scored a scrappy winner
Postecoglou’s harm points then worsened as full-back Djed Spence moved to centre-back for the second half after Radu Dragusin was substituted at half-time taking the Spurs absentee checklist into double figures.
Regardless of a patched-up defence, Spurs did push for a second-half equaliser as Brennan Johnson hit the put up whereas substitutes James Maddison and Sergio Reguilon each put efforts large.
However Newcastle held on for an ideal begin to 2025 to maneuver a degree behind fourth-placed Chelsea and heap extra strain on Postecoglou.
Each side can now stay up for their Carabao Cup semi-final first legs, with Newcastle going to Arsenal on Tuesday and Tottenham internet hosting Liverpool on Wednesday – each dwell on Sky Sports activities.
Ange: Angriest I have been in my profession
Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou was left livid with a few of the refereeing choices he felt went in opposition to his aspect of their 2-1 loss in opposition to Newcastle
Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou in his post-match press convention on the Joelinton handball choice:
“All I am going to say is that on every other day, on a good and even taking part in floor, we might have gained that recreation. Easy as that.
“And do not hold asking me in regards to the choice. When you guys haven’t any opinion about it, that is tremendous. I do know what my opinion is.
He added: “Contemplating every part we needed to undergo and the state of affairs we’re in proper now, to placed on a efficiency like that, I take my hat off to the gamers. I believed they had been excellent.
“I am simply actually, actually indignant, as indignant as I’ve ever been in my profession, that they had been denied the suitable rewards for a implausible efficiency.”
A livid Ange Postecoglou reacts to Newcastle’s equaliser being given of their 2-1 win at Tottenham
Requested to make clear whether or not he was indignant on the officiating: “I do know you simply need me to say one thing, however I am not going to. I feel it is clear. Whether or not individuals agree with me or not, you assume it wasn’t handball or it was unintended or no matter, I am simply not fascinated about any of that dialogue.
“What I am saying is that on any given day, with a good and even taking part in area and logical thought processes, we might have gained that recreation. That is it. You may make what you need of that. I do not know what else to say about it.”
Howe: Gordon’s objective proper to be given
Newcastle boss Eddie Howe in his post-match press convention on the Joelinton handball choice:
“I can not sit right here and lie and say I have never seen it, as a result of I’ve. It undoubtedly hit Joelinton’s arm – I may give you that as effectively – however I am not in command of the referee’s choice.
“I consider that his arm’s down in a pure place. And I feel the referee and the VAR have adopted the principles and protocols which might be in place, in order that’s why it is given.”
Requested on Postecoglou’s feedback that Spurs deserved to win: “I believed we had been dominant within the first half in the present day. I believed it may, and presumably ought to, have been extra in that first-half interval.
“Sure, Tottenham performed effectively within the second half and so they introduced on some high quality gamers and pushed us again at occasions.
“However we did sufficient to recover from the road.”
