Dominic Scurr reflects on Newcastle United's 3-1 win at Aston Villa in the Premier League.
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00:00 I'm in the dark here at Villa Park but fortunately things are looking a whole
00:05 lot brighter for Newcastle United following a 3-1 win here against Aston
00:10 Villa tonight. Thoroughly deserved a real return to what was so from Eddie Howe's
00:16 side last season I thought. It was was excellent from the start, deserved the
00:20 2-0 lead at the break both coming from set-piece situations. Kieran Trippie has
00:24 delivery eventually turned in on both occasions by Fabian Scher. So first-half
00:30 brace from the centre-back and it was a very positive first half just with one
00:34 quite serious blemish in Alexander Isak going off injured just minutes before
00:40 the break, a groin problem from him and Eddie Howe's not sure how serious it is.
00:45 He hopes it's not serious but did say it's a bit too early to tell so we'll
00:50 wait and see on him but it leaves Newcastle without a fit senior striker
00:55 going into the Luton Town game but hopefully Callum Wilson will return. He
01:00 hasn't returned to training yet but is understood to be very close. Harvey Barnes
01:04 also back in contention for that game. So injury blow, fresh injury blow for
01:10 Newcastle United but hopefully people return in for the weekend. But this game,
01:13 back to this game, Newcastle you always felt maybe needed that third goal in the
01:17 second half and fortunately it came quite quickly. Miguel Almon who came on
01:23 for Alexander Isak, linking up well with Anthony Gordon and playing a great ball
01:28 in for Jacob Murphy also back in the starting lineup in a Premier League game
01:33 at least having returned at the weekend. Turns it in, well Alex Moreno own goal
01:38 but Jacob Murphy got the last touch from a Newcastle player to make it 3-0 and
01:44 from there Newcastle shut up shop. Leon Bailey came on for Villa caused all
01:48 sorts of problems really for about 10-15 minutes. Olly Watkins pulled the goal
01:53 back but credit to Eddie Howe, he spotted the danger, brought on Tino Livramento
01:58 switched to a back five and Newcastle managed to see the game out. There was a
02:02 quick scare, Olly Watkins did score again but ruled out for offside. Could have
02:07 been a very interesting nervy end to the game had that counted but yeah Newcastle
02:12 saw it out up to seventh in the league. Things are looking a whole lot more
02:16 positive following a really big really impressive win at Villa Park.