Nottingham Forest 1-3 Newcastle United: Joe Buck match reaction

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Joe Buck reacts to Newcastle United's 3-1 win over Nottingham Forest at the City Ground. Three goals in the second half from Alexander Isak, Joelinton and Harvey Barnes sealed back-to-back Premier League wins for Eddie Howe's side.

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00:00So Newcastle United continue their fantastic run in the Premier League with a brilliant 3-1 here at the City ground.

00:07A second half turnaround from Newcastle after going into the break 1-0 down, Southern won 3-1.

00:12It was a brilliant second half performance as I said, Eddie Howe has got to take credit for whatever he said at the break.

00:17It was a brilliant turnaround from the Magpies.

00:21Beginning of the game unchanged for the first time this season, it wasn't really a surprise I think everyone expected.

00:27Eddie Howe made very little, if any, changes from the Arsenal game. It was a brilliant performance.

00:31Newcastle started, well I think to be fair Newcastle probably had three quarters of the game.

00:36I think they probably dominated a large part but Norton Forrest took the lead.

00:41Soft goal for Newcastle conceded, it was a free kick.

00:44Head down by Murillo. It was a soft open goal to concede but Newcastle reacted well, they had chances.

00:56Limited Forrest did really well defensively I think.

01:01Forrest got very little, Chris Wood, everything pretty much went Chris Wood in his form.

01:05He didn't really have a sniff, Dan Byrne and Fabian Schaer dealt with him brilliantly.

01:09Dan Byrne did really well, he was booked within I think the 6th or 7th minute and he stayed on the pitch throughout.

01:14There was a couple of hairy moments but he did brilliantly, him and Schaer to keep one quiet.

01:18In the end Newcastle went into the break 1-0 down, Wood felt that maybe a couple of refereeing decisions,

01:22maybe a penalty, maybe a potential red card, an elbow on Tino Liveromento, a high challenge.

01:28These are 50-50 calls, I think if they'd got beat they would have looked back on that with disappointment.

01:33It can't take anything away from that second half performance, it was fantastic.

01:36They started off like a house on fire, brilliant the second half that came out.

01:40Probably, well certainly deserved the equaliser through Alexander Isak, a ball from a corner, Anthony Gordon corner.

01:46Chris Wood nodded it down, straight in the path of Isak.

01:49Isak, any good striker and any good poacher would do, just gets his foot on the ball, puts it in off the post.

01:55Newcastle are level and that was, yeah, every look back on that moment.

02:00Then Newcastle countered for the second goal, it was a brilliant break.

02:04Isak fed over Joel Linton, Joel Linton cut inside, Tino Liveromento, brilliant decoy run around the right.

02:09Joel Linton cut inside and curled, a beautiful effort off the far post.

02:15It was a fantastic transition, fantastic break for Newcastle and one that will please Eddie Howe.

02:21I think Forrest would be disappointed to come and see that.

02:23As a home side, obviously they probably felt they had to go for it but they were probably a little bit too open in that instance.

02:30They were very solid in the first half, Forrest you've got to give him credit, Newcastle had very little.

02:35But in the second half they were open up, that might be because of Isak's goal early on.

02:38They were just open up and Joel Linton, it was a brilliant finish and a good move.

02:42And one that Newcastle deserved.

02:45I don't think there will be many people leaving this stadium now saying that Newcastle didn't deserve to win that match.

02:51The game was wrapped up just a couple of minutes from time.

02:54Sandro Tonali was fantastic after he was introduced in place of Joe Willock.

02:58He ran down the left, oh actually, I forgot about this.

03:01A brilliant little play from Bruno, Harvey Barnes and Tonali to fashion an opening to get out of their own area.

03:07Barnes had a lovely flick to Bruno, he went on his way, Bruno found Tonali.

03:11Tonali drove up the pitch, found Barnes, Barnes cut in on his right foot and shot near post past Matzels.

03:16Didn't really give the keeper a chance, he might have took a slight nick but that would be harsh to say it wasn't Barnes.

03:20And that sort of wrapped the game up, seven or eight minutes from time.

03:23And yeah, it was a solid performance from Newcastle, brilliant in the second half.

03:26Very good all game to be fair, I think they were decent all game.

03:29They were fantastic in the second half, deserved that win.

03:32And like I said before the game, they needed a statement win really and they got the statement win today.

03:36It was a statement win.

03:37It was a statement win.

03:38As much as they might be not in Forestry, we're third in the table.

03:41And heading into that international break now, Newcastle have got all the momentum in the world.

03:44Does that come at the wrong time?

03:45Very probably, but they've got a lot of momentum.

03:48Heading into that game against West Ham, which is of course in three weeks, three weeks tomorrow on that Monday night.

03:52So that'll be a brilliant atmosphere at St James' Park.

03:54And the Premier League table now, they've got one point behind Forestry, stay third.

03:57Newcastle finish the day in eighth.

03:59You know, they're one point behind there.

04:00There's a couple of teams all on 18 points, but it's very close.

04:02Newcastle are one of the form sides in that group, which is where you want to be really.

04:06So yeah, fantastic performance.

04:07Good win.

04:08Good statement win that they can take after the international break and hope they can repeat that against West Ham.

04:13The only negative of the day was of course Dan Byrne got booked, so he misses that West Ham game through suspension.

04:19But that's the only sight negatives.

04:20And what has been a brilliant day for Newcastle.

04:22United and Eddie Howard, whatever.

04:23As I said, whatever he said at halftime, it worked fantastically.

04:26Yeah, so another win.

04:27Brilliant from Newcastle United.

04:293-1 here at Nottingham Forest and a statement win.

04:31And that'll be the headline of the day, I think.

04:33A statement win from Newcastle United on the road.

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