Key events
27 minutes: De Novo Castro equaling and potent Joelinton ball, the Supreme League I put the following in X: “The referee’s final call was confirmed by VAR, who considered that the ball was controlled by Joelinton in the build-up and that his arm was next to him, in a natural place and accidental contact. .
I must see that, but I do not remember that his arm was next to Joelinton’s hand. He was, however, completely oblivious to the ball being drawn towards which I remember his arm being extended.
25 minutes: Already on a yellow card, Dan Burn spreads his arms wide and blocks Dejan Kulusevski’s pass on the right. He avoids another book and considers himself lucky to do so.
23 minutes: An Anthony Gordon free-kick was cleared from deep, but Jacob Murphy’s ball found its way out on the right. No one at Newcastle is on hand to turn his tantalizing ball across the face Tottenham Hotspur purpose
21 minutes: Tottenham goalkeeper Brandon Austin does well to go down and save from Anthony Gordon as the Newcastle winger scores from the exact same spot from where Newcastle’s opener came from.
19 minutes: Spurs upfield and Kulusevski has a cross from the right into the corner. Pedro Porro rolls the ball into the Newcastle penalty area but doesn’t beat Isak at the near post. The Swedish striker heads clear.
18 minutes: Dan Burn gets booked on Dejan Kulusevski as the Tottenham midfielder tried to stay upfield at the break.
17 minutes: Lewis Hall sends a cross from deep into the Tottenham penalty area, where Brandon Austin claims it comfortably before digging Kulusevski’s long ball into the left side.
15 minutes: Joelinton seems to catch Bergvall by chance with a raised elbow to the side of the head, but gets away from it.
12 minutes: Radu Dragusin gets himself into all sorts of trouble when he tries to play the ball from behind, but he almost goes away with it. Whatever you think of Joelinton’s “ball”, it should be noted that he similarly unwisely left the spurs at the back for Newcastle’s equalizer.
11 minutes: Sven Botman made a brilliant block in his own penalty area to deny Dominic Solanke his second goal of the afternoon.
8 minutes: It will be debated whether that goal stood as an upfield attempt was stopped by Luke Bergvall’s outstretched arm of Joelinton, who was clearly oblivious to what he was doing. Despite this, his intervention allowed Newcastle to win possession not far outside the Spurs penalty area.
Gordon slipped in from behind and made no mistake at the end. I mean the debate rage, and there is also an Australian on the touchline who is mad rage.
THE END! Tottenham 1-1 Newcastle (Gordon 6)
Equalize the castle! Anthony Gordon scores with a low shot into the bottom right corner after Spurs are caught trying to play the ball from the back.
5 minutes: It’s an excellent start for Tottenham and an absolute good one from Solanke, watching in front of the England manager, Thomas Tuchel.
THE END! Tottenham 1-0 Newcastle (Solanke 4)
The boots lead! Pedro Porro’s first cross in Newcastle deflected a penalty from the right and Dominic Solanke crossed Sven Botman’s blind side to power Martin Dubravka’s header.
2 minutes: Play resumes with Livramento fit to continue and the ball drops in Newcastle, whose players wear striped and blue shirts, shorts and white socks.
1 minute: There is a break in play as Newcastle right-back Tino Livramento goes to the ground in apparent agony and receives treatment after an early clash with Luca Bergvall.
Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle is to go…
1 minute: Tottenham get the ball rolling and immediately play a long cross towards Timo Werner on the left touchline.
Not long now; Led by referee Andy Madley and a team of match officials, players from both teams take to the pitch for the final of the pre-season festivities on a chilly London afternoon. Dejan Kulusevski and Bruno Guimaraes wear the arms of the leaders.
I think I read somewhere this morning that in each of the past 59 games at least one goal has been played between these sides, and I’ll hardly be alone in being gobsmacked if we don’t have more today. Kicking off is just a few minutes…
Address: “G’day Barry,” writes Chris Paraskevas, who I assume is in Australia. “Young people and I (three grown men with echoes of life) tried their luck and got together to watch the game.
“In the past this has always resulted in disaster. To top things off, we are all wearing a variety of stripes this season at Newcastle. Given that Tottenham had to call on King Ledley at centre-back, surely even our supporters me̶n̶s̶ ̶c̶l̶u̶b̶ club the evil eye / cursed Ange tonight they will help.”
Translation of the message: It is brought Tottenham Hotspur near the signing of Slavia Prague goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky, who has been transferred to London to undergo medical treatment. A fee of £12.5m plus add-ons is recorded for the Czech Republic U-21 international, who has made 29 appearances for Slavia Prague this season and kept 14 clean sheets.
Eddie Howe in talks to link Alexander Isak with a January move from St James’ Park; “Our players are loved by us and missed by us,” he told reporters. “Their place can only be here and now. I don’t see a flow for us, especially in this transfer window. The players are very focused.”
Ange Postecoglou on Tottenham’s transfer window plans: “The club helps a lot as the group of players work,” he told reporters. “We need to strengthen our numbers a little bit. January is clearly not an easy time to bring players quickly and we still want to do what is best for us rather than panic.
Today’s official match
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Referee: Andy Madley.
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Assistants: Nick Hopton and Craig Taylor.
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The fourth official; Lewis Smith.
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OUR: Christopher Kavanagh.
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Assistant VAR: Sian Massey-Ellis.
Those parts: As expected, third choice goalkeeper Brandon Austin starts for the spurs and the 25-year-old from Hemel Hemstede will make his senior debut in English football following short loan spells in Denmark and the USA. The most recent of them was at Orlando in 2021.
Elsewhere in the side, Heung-min’s son Timo Werner starts ahead of James Maddison in the plan. Djed Spence gets another start in place of the fatally injured Udogie. Lucas Bergvall comes on for the suspended Roderic Bentancur.
Sven Botman is taken straight into the heart of Newcastle’s defence, having returned from nine months on the sidelines with a knee injury, while Tino Livramento starts at full-back for Kieran Trippier, who drops to the bench.
Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle line-ups
Tottenham Hotspur: Augustine; Furthermore, Dragusin, Gray, Spence; Bergvall, Sarr; Johnson, Kulusevski, Werner; Solanke.
Subs: Whiteman, Reguilon, Dorrington, Hardy, Bissouma, Maddison, Olusesi, Filius, Lankshear.
Newcastle United: Dubravka; Delivery, Botman, Burn, Hall; Tonali, Guimaraes, Joelinton; Murphy, Isaac, Gordon.
Subs: Vlachodimos, Trippier, Barnes, Osula, Almiron, Kelly, Willock, Longstaff, Miley.
Morning team news
With Fraser Forster ill after a bug that invaded the Tottenham camp, Ange Postecoglou is expected to give 20-year-old goalkeeper Brandon Austin his first senior English football start after five years at the club and 78 games on the bench as an unusual substitute. Goodbye to him.
Glum Ange revealed yesterday that Udogie’s fate is expected to be out for at least six weeks with a hamstring injury and a sprained full-back joining the list of disabled and limping in Tottenham’s treatment room.
The names of Guglielmo Vicari, Mikey Moore, Richarlison, Micky van de Ven, Ben Davies, Cristian Romero and Wilson Odoberti all now feature in it. Djed Spence is available again, but Roderick Bentancur is out today through suspension.
Castle are without Fabian Schar, who joins Bentancur on the offensive line, Nick Pope, Callum Wilson, Jamaal Lascelles and Emil Krafth are all injured. Sven Botman is expected to undergo a recent fitness test and make his first appearance in Newcastle since last March after recovering from a serious knee injury.
Premier League: Tottenham v Newcastle
Fifth coming up high on the back four in a row Supreme League wins, Newcastle arrive in London as favorites to make it five in net against an out-of-favour team who have a long injury list and are without a win in the past three games, two of which have been lost.
Tottenham Hotspur drew with Wolves last season, while Newcastle’s latest exit saw lowly Manchester United keep a fourth consecutive clean sheet in the top flight at Old Trafford. Kick-off in North London at 12.30pm (GMT) but there will be a delay in the meantime for team news and build-up.