The fact that Newcastle is historic

What happened on Sunday Bramall Lane This is part of English football history. The 0-8 is the Newcastle in Sheffield United It wasn’t the biggest win in the Premier, it was one goal short of equaling the record, two short of breaking it. The brand is owned Manchester United (9-0 in 1995 vs Ipswich and 9-0 against him Southampton in 2021), the Liverpool (9-0 against Bournemouth in 2022) and the Leicester (0-9 in 2019 against the ‘Saints’). But the 0-8 of Newcastle It is historical in other sections.

So, for the first time in the history of the Premier, 8 different players from the same team scored in the same match (specifically, they did it. Sean Longstaff, Dan Burn, Sven Botman, Callum Wilson, Anthony Gordon, Miguel Almirón, Bruno Guimaraes and Alexander Isak). Data puts this meeting and this outcome into another dimension.

Never the Newcastle He has scored 8 goals from home since the existence of the highest category of English football (formerly First Division and now Premier). This is the third team to achieve this figure or more on the road in the Premier League (they have done it before Manchester United1-8 to Nottingham Forest in 1999, and the Leicester (0-9 to Southampton in 2019).

Sir Bobby Robson and Alan Shearer

And, on a general level, the Newcastle He has not scored 8 goals in the Premier League for 24 years, specifically since September 19, 1999 (8-0 at home, at Saint James’ Park, against another. Sheffield (Wednesday), that on Sunday he equaled that mark. On that day, where surely the mourner Sir Bobby Robson made his debut as Newcastle coach, a legend called Alan Shearer he got 5 points.

You will never forget that fight Kevin Pressmangoalkeeper of Sheffield Wednesdaybecause it won’t do it Wes Foderinghamcurrent goalkeeper Sheffield United, including the match against Newcastle yesterday. I’m crying Bramall Lane, with his newly promoted bottom team and humiliated. Poor him Sheffield United0-8 was also historic in their career: it was their heaviest defeat in a top-flight match.

On the other hand, on Sunday ️Kieran Trippier He became the fourth player of the Newcastle with 3 assists in the same Premier League match (after Andy Cole, Moussa Sissoko and Allan Saint-Maximin).

This September 24th It’s a party for him Newcastlewhich, after finishing 4th in the last Premier League and returning to the Champions League after 20 years, has not been able to shine at the start of the current English championship, where it is 8th, 9 points behind the leader , The Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, already 5 in the Champions League places. The Saint James’ Park team just started the league with a 0-0 at home to Milan.

Hungry for goals

Eddie Howecoach of the ‘magpies’, said that 0-8 “shows our hunger for goals and success, our character, mentality and motivation; “After scoring the first goal, we played good football, IM happy.”