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7¹ HRÁDECKÝ did well to hold onto a fierce strike from MUSIALA. 9¹ MUSIALA's shot beat the Bayer Leverkusen 'keeper but rebounded off the Bayer Leverkusen crossbar. 10¹ A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing HRÁDECKÝ. 12¹ A good effort from SCHICK scraped the outside of the lefthand post. 19¹ A drive from MUSIALA seemed a certain goal but HRÁDECKÝ managed to parry the ball away. 28¹ ISAK played the ball to PALMER who turned it inches over. 37¹ GOAL!! On the left wing RETSOS collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the goalmouth for SCHICK to slip it into the net. (1-0 Bayer Leverkusen) 38¹ ARÁNGUIZ cautioned for a late challenge on KULUSEVSKI. 43¹ GOAL!! The creative GORETZKA neatly nodded on a cross for MUSIALA to fire the ball in. (1-1) 46¹ A free-kick from JOELINTON went just beyond the far post. 47¹ DRAGOVIC beat a number of Newcastle United players and blasted a great chance over the bar. 0² GOAL!! ISAK dribbled forward, looked up and drove a shot into the Bayer Leverkusen net. (2-1 Newcastle United) 2² JOELINTON brought the ball away from FOSU-MENSAH and rifled a poor shot over. 4² KULUSEVSKI headed just wide. 12² AKÉ shot over. 13² GOAL!! A strike from SCHICK which the Newcastle United 'keeper was able to claw away was deemed over the line and YOUNG awarded the goal. (2-2) 18² MUSIALA ran onto a wonderful ball from KULUSEVSKI but toe-poked his shot wide. 18² JOELINTON kicked the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box. 23² The ref cautions DRAGOVIC. 24² PALMER beat ARÁNGUIZ and drilled the ball to ISAK who fired his effort wide. 25² GOAL!! A refined set-piece enabled RAUM to tuck the ball home. (3-2 Newcastle United) 37² A tame strike from MUSIALA trickled agonisingly wide.

Newcastle United   League position: 9 Home league form: WLOW Overall league form: LWWWWXLO Formation: 3-5-2

Line-ups Jordan PICKFORD 6½ 1 6  Lukás HRÁDECKÝ(c) Jeremie FRIMPONG 7  2 7  Panagiotis RETSOS Nathan AKÉ 8  3 7  Piero HINCAPIÉ (c)Jonathan TAH 7  4 7½ Robert ANDRICH Leon GORETZKA 7  5 7  Aleksandar DRAGOVIC JOELINTON Cassio 7  6 6½ Timothy FOSU-MENSAH Dejan KULUSEVSKI 6½ 7 7  Charles ARÁNGUIZ David RAUM 8  8 6½ Callum HUDSON-ODOI Alexander ISAK 7½ 9 6  Patrik SCHICK(p) Cole PALMER 7½ 10 5½ Niclas FÜLLKRUG(f) (p,f)Jamal MUSIALA 7½ 11 6  Amine ADLI Charlie Pulling Manager Ben WHITE    12    IAGO Amaral Bart VERBRUGGEN    13    Lars UNNERSTALL Noni MADUEKE    14    Joel POHJANPALO Morgan GIBBS-WHITE    15    Daley SINKGRAVEN Omar MARMOUSH    16    Mads VALENTIN

Bayer Leverkusen   League position: 6 Away league form: LLWX Overall league form: XLWWLWXL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Newcastle United 3 Bayer Leverkusen 2 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 55,902, Stadium: St.James' Park, Referee: William Young 5½) Musiala 43¹, Isak 0², Raum 25² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Schick 37¹, Schick 13²           Aránguiz 38¹, Dragovic 23² 0 3 8 10 3 0 8 2 13 5 21 7 5 0 55% 45% ¶ Man of the match: David Raum ¶