Reaction as Newcastle United defeat Sunderland in the FA Cup

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Joe Buck reacts as Newcastle United defeat Sunderland 3-0 in the FA Cup. Eddie Howe's side secured the win thanks to an own goal by Dan Ballard and a brace from Alexander Isak in the first Wear-Tyne derby since 2016.

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00:00 Newcastle United are through to the FA Cup 4th round after a 3-0 win over Sunderland.

00:07 The first win over Sunderland since 2011, the first win since 2011 that Ryan Taylor

00:13 had a kick and it was the day when Newcastle dominated the game really. The difference

00:17 between the Premier League Newcastle and the Championship Sunderland was really evident

00:21 in the game. It was coming in, Newcastle weren't in the best of form, someone picked up a couple

00:25 of results so it was a difficult fix to have at any house like as the house would have

00:28 been in any competition in the FA Cup. The weather did storm a little bit early on but

00:33 Sunderland never really tested Martin De Brabieke in that first half. At the end Newcastle showed

00:39 they were dominant and they made their early dominance play through an own goal which to

00:44 be fair was set up really well by Joel Inman, his work down the left was superb, it was

00:48 nice of him to play, he skipped past a couple of challenges, fired a ball across, Isak was

00:52 there to get home but the ball was diverted in the home net by Dan Ballard and that was

00:58 really the story first half. Newcastle deserved to go into the break 1-0 ahead. In the end

01:03 of the day, you think coming into the second half there was going to be some nerves, you

01:06 think can they react, can they put the memories of the last couple of games behind them but

01:12 within a minute Pierre Equiel was dispossessed by Al Maron, Al Maron played Isak, Isak fired

01:17 a shot corner, all of a sudden it was 2-0 and Newcastle really were in control there.

01:22 The home fans around us were getting a little bit annoyed with Sunderland's tendency to

01:26 play out from the back, I think that didn't help them, they aren't a big side Sunderland

01:31 I think, Newcastle physically dominated them at times, especially Joel Inman in that first

01:35 half, the only concern would be the fact that he did go off injured at half time, which is

01:40 after half time, so it would be interesting to speak that out about him but the rest of

01:44 the day was brilliant for Newcastle, they controlled the second half, they did let Sunderland

01:48 a little bit back into the game, Quintar had a shot, first one went over the bar and the

01:52 second one was saved slightly by Dubravka but other than that Newcastle were good value

01:56 for their win and then later on Anthony Gordon skipped past Dan Ballard, Ballard took him

02:02 down, Craig Goulston pointed at the spot and Isak converted as he always does to confront

02:07 the 6,000 fans you can see just over my shoulder there, so sending them into rapture, sending

02:12 Newcastle into the fourth round with a comfortable win, it was a good performance from right

02:18 outside after a difficult few weeks and as I mentioned those 6,000 Newcastle fans who

02:22 are slowly making their way out of the stadium right now will be very happy with their team's

02:26 work and there'll be one like this, they will hope to support that next week against Man City

02:32 because that's a really big game but right now Newcastle United, the fans, the players,

02:37 staff, everyone can go home very happy with the day's work and Newcastle have the bragging

02:41 wagon rides over the neighbours until they flee again.

02:43 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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