Daniel Wales and Phil Smith look back at a 1-3 for Newcastle United over Nottingham Forest, and a 2-2 draw for Sunderland against Coventry City.
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00:00Well, that was quite the win for Newcastle United against Nottingham Forest at the city
00:07grounds. The third time the Magpies have won on trendside in a row. Three seasons in a
00:13row they've won against Nottingham Forest away from home, thanks to second-half goals
00:18from Alexander Isaac, Joe Linton and Harvey Barnes, all of course in the second half,
00:24as I mentioned. Nottingham Forest had gone ahead thanks to Murillo, a header from a free
00:28kick in the first half, but then Newcastle came firing back in the second to claim all
00:32three points. And to be honest, they had been the better side for pretty much all of the
00:37game. They'd been threatening from minute one to minute 90. And although Forest had
00:42gone ahead, you always thought Newcastle had the attacking ability and threat. Newcastle
00:48went in the second half and scored a great goal from a corner the first time for about
00:5260-odd corners that Newcastle have scored from a corner. And then Joe Linton cut inside
00:58on his left foot, bends one past Matt Sells to make it 2-1, before Harvey Barnes scores
01:03a counter-attacking finish, having been played in by Sandro Tonali, to wrap it up with about
01:09sort of seven or eight minutes of normal time left. Forest probably weren't great, to be
01:15fair, considering some of the performance that they've had this season, but Newcastle
01:18very much worthy of the three points.
01:21Dean, we have to accept at this point that's something that's just never going to be Coventry.
01:27I think that's nine games in a row now without beating the Sky Blues. And today, probably
01:33actually of all those games up there with the most disappointed and the most frustrated,
01:37maybe you could put the 5-4 back in the League One either up there because of the consequences
01:42that had. But sometimes I complete control of this game at half-time. The first half
01:47was kind of what we've become accustomed to at home this season. They weren't creating
01:52on this occasion loads and loads of chances, but they were clearly the better team. Felt
01:56like they had Coventry where they wanted them, felt like they could up the tempo and create
01:59more chances than ever they wanted to. Two incredible goals. One of the actual most frustrating
02:04things about the way the game panned out for me today is that we probably won't be able
02:07to give those goals the love that they deserve over the coming weeks and months because Isidoro's
02:12volley on his weaker foot, first time into the far corner. Watching it live, I assumed
02:17it must have been some kind of fluke, that it must have hit his knee or something like
02:21that and lipped over, but actually the precision with which he scored was so impressive. And
02:25then Serka maybe even went one better. The second half was just really disappointing.
02:30I thought it was a lax performance. In all these scenarios, it's very difficult to work
02:37out what was Sunderland's shortcomings and what was Coventry improving, but it did feel
02:42like the tempo and the intensity was really lacking from Sunderland in the second half.
02:47I think on the balance of the second half, although Sunderland had chances, I think you
02:50have to say that Coventry's goals, both of them, there was no surprise when they happened
02:55because the momentum of the game had clearly switched and Coventry had looked a threat.