Magpies and Mackems continue to fly, but Boro halted: North East Football Roundup

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Jordan Cronin, Liam Kennedy, Phil Smith, and Daniel Wales review the latest North East football results.

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00:00We start at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where Newcastle were looking for yet another win.

00:05Tottenham Hotspur 1, Newcastle United 2.

00:09Big win, Liam. Six wins in a row. Two on the road this week.

00:14Eddie Howe's side are flying, aren't they?

00:16Yeah, they are. They really are.

00:17And I don't think anybody could have predicted where they were a month and a half or so ago to where they'd be now.

00:22And I'm all for it. It's been a really positive month.

00:26You've had Alan Zadar, Isak, just scoring for fun.

00:29Jacob Murphy's assists. Anthony Gordon, full of confidence.

00:33Joe Linton busting around. Bruno getting involved.

00:37Tonali releasing him and putting in amazing performances.

00:40Lewis Hall, Dan Byrne. How good's Dan Byrne been?

00:43Incredible.

00:45Sven Botman's return today.

00:47Tino DiRomento putting in one of his best performances in a long time.

00:50Yeah, I thought so.

00:51And Martin De Branca just cruising through games.

00:53So, look, it was a really positive day.

00:55Look, I think it took a lot out of them.

00:57It wasn't an easy on-the-eye performance.

01:00They gave a good half hour maybe in the first half.

01:02The rest was a bit patchy.

01:04It wasn't great, but they hung on in there, got the result, which is all that matters.

01:08Next to the Stadium of Light, where Sunderland welcomed Championship strugglers Portsmouth.

01:14I think Sunderland were obviously short of their best.

01:19It was quite an odd game.

01:21Actually, the open exchanges of the game, I couldn't really believe what I was seeing.

01:24I think we'd all been really impressed and really pleased with how effective the 4-4-2 had been against Sheffield United.

01:29How dangerous Isidore Meander had been in attacking the space and behind Sheffield United's defence.

01:34I think we thought this game was going to look completely different.

01:37That Portsmouth might try and shut down that space for Isidore Meander.

01:40Maybe defend with a little bit of a low block.

01:43Actually, they were super aggressive pretty much from the start.

01:47At times when their goalkeeper was taking goal kicks and set plays, they had pretty much five plays up on Sunderland's front line.

01:52Obviously, it cost them in the seventh minute when Sunderland nicked the ball back.

01:56Again, we saw that combination up front work really well.

01:59Meander with a lovely pass to Isidore and a fantastic finish from Isidore.

02:02Finally, to the Riverside, where Middlesbrough were looking to continue their recent good form against another team struggling, Cardiff City.

02:11And it proved to be a frustrating day for Middlesbrough at the Riverside.

02:161-1 they drew against Cardiff City.

02:19They did take the lead early on though.

02:21Emmanuel Laté-Lath getting on the score sheet once again.

02:24Thanks to good work down the right-hand side from Ben Duke, taking on his man and then delivering a great cross into the middle of the box,

02:31which Laté-Lath had no problem turning into the back of the net.

02:34And you thought from that point, Middlesbrough would go on to comfortably win against a struggling Cardiff City side.

02:39But no, just minutes later, Cardiff were on level terms.

02:43Callum Chambers, from just inside the box, rifled an effort into the top corner after Middlesbrough had failed to clear their lines following a Cardiff attack.

02:51And Middlesbrough were unable to go on to win the game.

02:54And that was how things ended. 1-1.

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