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Paul Dummett scores extra-time winner for Newcastle at Crystal Palace Paul Dummett scores extra-time winner for Newcastle at Crystal Palace
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It was perhaps appropriate Alan Pardew should glean some respite from the maelstrom on his return to this corner of south London. As a player he had been cherished in these parts, a committed worker whose finest moment, a headed winner against Liverpool, earned Crystal Palace their only appearance to date in an FA Cup final. Now, as Newcastle’s beleaguered manager and with the locals in open revolt back on Tyneside, he has a rare victory and progress in the Capital One Cup to celebrate. It was perhaps appropriate Alan Pardew should glean some respite from the maelstrom on his return to this corner of south London. As a player he had been cherished in these parts, a committed worker whose finest moment, a headed winner against Liverpool, had earned Crystal Palace their only appearance to date in an FA Cup final. Just as fittingly given the turbulence that has surrounded Newcastle’s manager since the turn of the year, his team made life painfully hard for themselves en route to chiseling out a rare victory.
The visitors should have prevailed in normal time only to concede an equaliser to Sullay Kaikai on his first senior appearance for the hosts. Then, in the extra period, they lost Mehdi Abeid to a second yellow card. Yet there was still enough energy and intent there for Paul Dummett to spring up-field in the 112th minute and meet Adam Armstrong’s centre with a diving header to provide a winner. Bottom of the Premier League they may be, but Newcastle and Pardew have a trip to Manchester City ahead in the fourth round. This tie should have been claimed in normal time, the visitors’ superiority against a second-string and disjointed Palace lineup clear for long periods. Yet they panicked at the death to concede an equaliser to the young substitute, Sullay Kaikai, who buried his finish beyond Rob Elliot at the second attempt on his first senior appearance for the hosts. That felt wasteful, Pardew staring in disbelief from the dug-out to sum up his mood, with the dismissal of Mehdi Abeid for a second yellow card in the extra period darkening it further.
These sides had shared a six-goal occasion up on Tyneside earlier this month, defences creaking alarmingly as they had through all those first few weeks of the Premier League campaign, and this hardly felt a stingy match in waiting. Fringe players had been granted their opportunity, the hosts fielding an entirely different lineup to that which won at Everton on Sunday, with most eager to make a favourable impression. In that sorry context it was admirable his team boasted enough energy and intent for Paul Dummett, initially a left-back but switched to the opposite flank at the break, to spring up-field unnoticed eight minutes from the end of extra-time to meet the excellent Adam Armstrong’s centre with a diving header. And all that for the dubious privilege of a fourth round trip to Manchester City. Then again, with his team bottom of the Premier League and off to Stoke on Monday, Pardew must grasp any hint of positivity they can at present.
They were trading plunder again before the interval, the home support taking time out while they led to serenade Pardew as a returning hero and even prompt a thumbs up from the visiting manager. The travelling supporters did not protest here, even with the visiting manager treated like a returning hero and serenaded by the Palace fans during and after the game. “It’s always lovely coming back here, but I thought our fans were terrific tonight and made a conscious effort to support the team,” said Pardew. “There wasn’t too much going on about me or my position, and I thank them for that.”
Palace had initially been the brighter, a slippery Wilfried Zaha teasing a penalty from Daryl Janmaat’s challenge which Dwight Gayle dispatched with relish to register his fifth goal of the term. Barry Bannan, a busy presence in the home midfield, might also have registered even if the concession had served to shrug Newcastle awake. He could be upbeat for once and, in truth, there was little reason for Neil Warnock to feel downhearted at his first defeat since returning to this club himself a month ago. His revamped team had led early courtesy of Dwight Gayle’s penalty, the award teased by Wilfried Zaha from Darly Janmaat,only for Newcastle to impose their authority thereafter. Emmanuel Rivière equalised with a fine spin from Brede Hangeland and curled shot into the far corner beyond Wayne Hennessey. That was his first goal for the club since his summer move from Monaco, with his second duly registered after the break from the spot once Paddy McCarthy had floored the slippery Sammy Ameobi.
Both Gabriel Obertan and Paul Dummett had skimmed in tantalising centres which zipped across the six-yard box only to by-pass meaningful contact from either Emmanuel Rivière or the 17-year-old Adam Armstrong, who was making his first start. Unperturbed, Rivière turned Brede Hangeland on the edge of the area, the centre-half crumpling to the turf rather ignominiously, before curling home a glorious first goal for the club. Andrew Johnson’s introduction for his first appearance for Crystal Palace in eight years provided a fillip, Gayle promptly heading against the foot of the post before Kaikai’s late intervention from close range. Even once Dummett had restored the lead, Adrian Mariappa might have earned a penalty shoot-out only for Elliot to improvise a block from the defender’s point-blank header.
Wayne Hennessey was wrong-footed, unsighted by Paddy McCarthy, though the French forward’s finish was still wonderfully placed. With parity came momentum, the visitors’ eager start to the second period seeing Sammy Ameobi wriggle between McCarthy and Adrian Mariappa with the former stretching and succeeding only in fouling the winger. Rivière, his radar now fixed, thumped in the penalty. Instead, Palace were left to bemoan Hangeland’s harshly disallowed goal and a first loss under their new manager as Pardew prevailed. City will pose different kinds of problems. “Their third team is pretty strong,” he offered, though that is a problem for another day.
Yet Andrew Johnson’s introduction for his first appearance for the club in eight years provided the hosts with a fillip. Gayle promptly headed against a post before Kaikai’s late intervention, stabbing in at the second attempt after Rob Elliot had parried his first effort, earned extra-time. That was an eye-catching first contribution to the senior side, with Newcastle’s challenge apparently further undermined by Mehdi Abeid’s dismissal for two bookable offences in the extra period. Then came Dummett’s dive, a staggering save from Elliot from Adrian Mariappa’s header and Newcastle could breathe again.