Newcastle 2-1 Everton: Premier League – as it happened

And here’s more on the sad news from earlier.

The Women’s FA Cup Final is getting tense, currently Everton Women 1-1 Man City Women. Join Simon Burnton for the staggering denouement.

Callum Wilson tells Sky Newcastle have worked on getting across the man at the front post, so “I used my brain a little bit, tried to get him to kick me”. He apparently performed a shushing gesture after scoring, which he confirms was aimed at Mina, who kept telling him where he was going to put the penalty.

And it don’t stop. Manchester United v Arsenal kicks off in 28 minutes, and you can follow all of it with Rob Smyth.

Newcastle, meanwhile, were well-organised and the better side before they scored. I was impressed with how they played after taking the lead, and they have pretty decent attacking options now.

For the second Sunday in a row, Everton were really disappointing. It’s true that they were missing a fair few players today, but before the game it was hard to fathom what their plan was and how they might threaten goals, and having now sat through 90 minutes, I remain none the wiser.

That’s a great result for Newcastle, who leap up the table to 10th; they’re already 10 points away from the relegation zone. Everton, meanwhile stay second.

90+6 min Darlo comes for the cross under pressure from Olsen, and holds it well. That’ll be that.

90+6 min Bernard takes possession outside the box and tries a curler, that Darlo tips over! Corner to Everrton, and here comes Olsen!

90+5 min Murphy is booked for timewasting from a throw, then Everton win a corner and there’s a minor scramble, after which Fernandez wellies a clearance … directly into the shins of Keane! But the ball shoots a yard or two wide.

90+3 min “‘Fifa need to employ a lawyer who knows about football to sort this’,” says Gary Naylor. “Anyone in mind?”

I think Gary is noting my previous profession, but much as I’d try to fit them in, I’m not sure I can consider myself a lawyer, though I do have an old practising certificate in my throne room.

Well! Iwobi, who’s been good since coming on, sends a low cross towards the near post area – I think it flicks off Lewis – and there’s Calvert-Lewin to administer one of the one-touch finishes Ancelotti has drummed into him, poking past Darlow from close range.

89 min “Re: 62 minutes, you’re joking right?” says David Wall. “Isn’t there enough carping about referees’ decisions when giving a penalty (or not) without having to add in ‘debate’ about whether the foul denied a goalscoring opportunity. That can get contentious enough for fouls outside of the penalty area.”

I don’t care too much about any “debate”, I can just ignore it. But I find free goals being given for marginal, minor improvements very odd, and a well-drafted law would remove any ambiguity. This is actually a problem with the laws in general, and in particular with the current mess of a handball situation; Fifa need to employ a lawyer who knows about football to sort this.

88 min Fraser gets on the ball again and nips away from Doucoure, who pulls him down. He’s booked.

88 min Bruce sends Carroll on for the hat-trick-seeking Wilson.

87 min Iwobi, who should’ve come on earlier, slides a decent pass into Calvert-Lewin, who rifles an instashot just wide of the near post.

Well played Newcastle and well played Steve Bruce! At no point since taking the lead have the home team sat on this, so when Lewis sweeps a long pass down the line, Ryan Fraser, brought on for exactly this eventuality, preys on Mina, who should be dropping off to police an opponent quicker than than him. But he goes towards the ball, Fraser disappears, and when he crosses, the ball kicks off the defender’s desperate lunge and sits up nicely for Wilson to poke home at the far post. Bournemouth in the house! This game is done and done.

84 min Sigurdsson allows a throw to run across him, taking Longstaff out of things in the process, before swinging around to shoot. But the ball flicks off Lascelles and is easily fielded by Darlow.

83 min Hayden replaces Almiron, who’s put in an absolute shift today – again. That’s not why he was signed, but failing a deluge of goals and assists, it’s something.

82 min Iwobi slings over a cross at which Sigurdsson dives, but Fernandez is there to head away.

81 min Newcastle win a free-kick down the right, send the big men forward, and then Longstaff swings it to Murphy, outside the box. The ball is behind him too, so he reaches around his arse to loop one towards the far side and Everton clear easily enough.

79 min Newcastle spring again, Fraser scurrying forward with Longstaff busting one to get with him. Nothing comes of it, but the home side are doing a really good job of defending their lead, making sure the ball stays away from their box whenever they can.

77 min Everton win a free-kick down the right and Sigurdsson swing it out, Keane first up but only to head over the bar. I’m not sure Everton have created a single chance today, a circumstance entirely foreseeable when looking at their starting XI.

76 min Bit better from Everton, Doucoure, Allan and Kenny combining well down the right, but Kenny’s cross is kicked away by Lascelles.

74 min Newcastle make a change, Fraser replacing Saint-Maximin, who’s been disappointing. That’s a really good alteration to be able to make, and better that anything Ancelotti can do.

72 min Newcastle are pretty comfortable here; they look well-drilled, and every time they can counter they counter. So Murphy nips froward, away from Allan, who can do no other, bringing him down and earning a yellow card.

70 min I guess Everton are playing 4-4-2 now, but it’s hard to see how that’s going to work with no wingers.

69 min Tosun is the next Everton change; he replaces Nkounkou, who’s had an alright game, though I’d have liked to have seen more from him going forward.

66 min Everton are pushing now, but have very little on the bench. I’d not be surprised to see Iwobi soon, who might stretch Newcastle’s back five and attempt something unexpected. I’d have gone for him before

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Bernard.

64 min …Sigurdsson curls it in and Calvert-Lewin is up, but can only impart a backheader, allowing Darlo to save. Perhaps if there’d been more pace on the ball, he’d have imparted enough pace – or angle – to take the keeper out of the equation.

64 min I’ve never seen Bernard play well, but he wins a free-kick 25 yards out, left of centre….

62 min Anyway, as I was saying, how about this: a foul or handball in the box where no goal is imminent results in a direct free-kick, but any foul or handball which prevents a goalscoring opportunity results in a penalty?

60 min We see that prior to the penalty, Mina was giving Wilson a few verbals, so Wilson shoved the ball into his breadbasket, for which he was booked.

58 min You’ve got to credit Wilson for chasing the ball and inducing the foul, but the reality is that the penalty law is a nonsense. Here’s what it should be, in mine but EXCUSE ME WHILE I INTERRUPT MYSELF! Two lovely passes, stabbed straight from Murphy to Almiron, inside the the box, and then from Almiron to Longstaff, allow yerman to turn on the ball, dragging it from behind him into his path before lamping a shot that clatters Olsen on the arm. Good play, good save.

Olsen dives right and Wilson passes middle-left. That’s his third penalty so far this season, and he’s scored them all.

Newcastle win a corner down the right which goes to the near post, and Gomes doesn’t know that Wilson is running towards it on his blind side. So when he goes to clear, he volleys Wilson instead, and what can you do?

51 min This is a bit better now, Calvert-Lewin finding Sigurdsson with a little touch back, and he goes wide to Kenny. The ensuing cross is a goodun, but Darlow does well to come for it, arriving ahead of the aforementioned Calvert-Lewin, who’d legged it into the box.

49 min In winning that ball, Calvert-Lewin took a bash in the face off of Schar, so disappears from the brief respite of treatment.

48 min But ey up, is something happening? Calvert-Lewin leaps like salmon on a trampoline to meet Kenny’s cross, heading up in the air then across to Sigurdsson, who makes to volley home the opener but misses the ball entirely. Lovely stuff.

47 min Calvert-Lewin slides a nice, oblique pass in behind the Newcastle defence, but as if Sigrudsson is catching up with that.

46 min “Of the many people that do not rate Pickford,” says JR in Illinois, “I probably rate him less than most of the people who don’t rate him rate him. Maybe Ancelotti didn’t trust Pickford to maintain his traditionally limited composure against his arch-enemies the Magpies.

As for Doucoure, he seems to be playing some sort of overlapping RCB position. He’s gotten forward occasionally but has often been even behind Allan. You might want to have a word with Uncle Carlo.”

It’s really very hard to know what’s going on here.