The A-League Men’s All-Stars have despatched Newcastle United again house with their tails between their legs after embarrassing the English Premier League membership 8-0 at Marvel Stadium on Friday evening.
Newcastle coach Eddie Howe expressed his lack of enthusiasm through the week about making the lengthy journey all the way down to Australia so quickly after the tip of the EPL season.
And, simply 5 days after enjoying their remaining Premier League sport, his Magpies performed like a staff that couldn’t wait to move again house.
Newcastle fielded a a lot more inexperienced staff than the one which beat Tottenham Hotspur on penalties on the MCG on Wednesday evening. Excluding fourth-choice goalkeeper Mark Gillespie, the common age of their beginning line-up was 19.5.
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The Magpies have been lacking a number of mainstays from their facet akin to Alexander Isak, Kieran Trippier, Bruno Guimaraes, Miguel Almiron, Fabian Schar, Sean Longstaff, Anthony Gordon, Martin Dubravka and Dan Burn.
The All-Stars took full benefit and wrapped up the competition in little over half an hour after needing lower than 5 minutes to open the scoring when Wellington star Ben Old rammed it house from 12 yards out on the again put up.
The hosts doubled their benefit in the twenty fifth minute when Dylan Charlton failed to barter Western United veteran Ben Garrucio’s cross from the left and after the 17-year-old Newcastle defender looped it in direction of his personal purpose, the ever-alert Nicolas Milanovic pounced and toe-poked it previous Gillespie.
Nine minutes later, A-League golden boot winner Adam Taggart made it 3-0 with a powerful effort from the sting of the field as he turned on a dime and let free with a peach of a success that went in off the left upright.
Things fell aside dramatically for the guests in the second half and in the 62nd minute, Newcastle Jets star Apostolos Stamatelopoulos put the All-Stars 4 objectives to the great in opposition to his namesake membership when, from 20 yards out, he whipped it magnificently previous Gillespie diving at full stretch.
Stamatelopoulos accomplished his brace 12 minutes later when he made it 5-0 with a tap-in from the purpose line after being fed by a gorgeous move from Nestory Irankunda who went on a blistering run down the precise in what was a parting reward for the Australian public from the precocious teenager earlier than he heads to Germany to hyperlink up with Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich.
The All-Stars scored once more in the 82nd minute when Irankunda and Bozhidar Kraev mixed to get it to Jake Hollman who tapped it house from a number of yards out into an unguarded internet below completely no strain.
Jordan Courtney-Perkins made it 7-0 eight minutes later when he popped it house from shut vary on the again put up after mopping up Stamatelopoulos’ header from Tolgay Arslan’s nook and in the primary minute of stoppage time an unmarked Kraev accomplished the rout when he elegantly chipped it over Newcastle goalkeeper Aidan Harris.
The All-Stars’ profitable margin may have been even higher. In the seventeenth minute, Gillespie kicked it straight to Milanovic who gleefully sprinted to 16 yards out and unleashed a strike which had the Newcastle custodian overwhelmed, however extremely Milanovic watched on in disbelief as it pinballed off each posts and again out once more.
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Under their feisty coach Patrick Kisnorbo, the All-Stars handled the match as something however a pleasant and went full throttle from the primary whistle.
In many respects it was a case of boys in opposition to males because the hosts’ high-intensity press put the younger Newcastle staff below large strain, forcing a number of ability errors, and the more seasoned and skilled All-Stars made certain they capitalised.
The hosts dominated the primary half and blitzed Newcastle for pictures on purpose (12-2) and pictures on the right track (6-1), earlier than in the end profitable each stats convincingly 23-5 and 13-1 respectively.
After approaching in the 71st minute for his first ever Newcastle bow in opposition to Tottenham, Aussie teenager Garang Kuol made his maiden begin for the Magpies.
Kuol produced Newcastle’s solely first rate probability of the match in the twenty fifth minute when he fired from 17 yards out however it went straight into the chest of All-Stars goalkeeper Alex Paulsen.
Things got here full circle for Kuol who landed at Newcastle, thanks largely to his sensational efficiency for the All-Stars in opposition to Barcelona two years in the past which grabbed the eye of worldwide scouts.