Newcastle lose at Chelsea, whilst Sunderland stay top with Oxford win: North East football weekend roundup

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A summary of Newcastle United’s loss at Chelsea, and Sunderland’s win against Oxford United over the weekend, Daniel Wales reports, with Jordan Cronin and Phil Smith.

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00:00We start at Stamford Bridge where Eddie Howe and Newcastle United were looking to bounce

00:07back from their home loss against Brighton last weekend.

00:10Jordan Cronin reports.

00:14Chelsea 2, Newcastle United 1 here at Stamford Bridge this afternoon.

00:20A difficult one to sum up I would say, but it's now five games without a Premier League

00:27win for Newcastle United and that's the thing I would say about Newcastle today, I would

00:33say this Newcastle team currently is very predictable.

00:38Look today, look at that performance, if you want to take some positives from it or a lot

00:43of positives, it depends what you want to look at, I thought Newcastle did compete with

00:46Chelsea after a torrid 20 minutes when Cole Palmer and Nicholas Jackson, two aps who treads

00:52out Newcastle United's midfield and defence, Dan Byrne and Fabian Schaer really did struggle

00:56to deal with those.

00:57Those two players led to the opener from Nicholas Jackson but Newcastle sort of grew into the

01:04game off of that and levelled through Alexander Isaac, great team move, team livermento right

01:09at the heart of it.

01:10It was all across, Isaac couldn't miss from close range but immediately after the second

01:17off they shoot themselves in the foot, Isaac giving the ball away, Cole Palmer running

01:24right through, easy for Cole Palmer and Nick Pope didn't make it difficult for Cole Palmer,

01:30I thought Nick Pope should have done that over that and of course at the other end as

01:32well Newcastle should have equalised, Isaac chinks into the box, got Jordan in free with

01:38an open goal, decides to detain himself, completely messes it up and the chance goes begging.

01:44Now to the Stadium of Light where Phil Smith summarised Sunderland's encounter with Oxford

01:49United following victory last time out away at Luton Town.

01:53What a win for Sunderland, that's now 28 points from 12 games, what an incredible start of

01:58the season and for me I thought today was the most complete performance they've produced.

02:02I think at different times this season we've seen them show every part of the game that

02:05you want to see but never at the same time.

02:08So we've seen really resilient defensive performances like at Luton, we've seen really good counter-attacking,

02:13we have seen it at home, we've seen them sort of blow teams away with a spell of pressing

02:17with a spell of really good football.

02:18Today I thought they were able to put it all together, I thought some of the football was

02:22as good as anything we saw under Tony Mowbray, the little interplay down the right-hand side

02:27with Roberts, the way the midfield three kept passing it through the press, it was a real

02:30sort of treat to watch and at the other end they barely gave up a chance.

02:34And OK, Oxford might not be the strongest opponent that Sunderland will face all season

02:37but they're not to be taken lightly, they've drawn the last five games, they got draws

02:40with Burnley and West Brom in that time.

02:42So I think for Sunderland to exert such complete control over the game is something that's

02:46really exciting and it's maybe the first time that I've actually gone, hang on are we looking

02:49at a genuine promotion contender here?

02:52Of course there's still a lot of football to be played but I think to see them play

02:54at that level for 90 minutes was so exciting.

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