Newcastle Joined beat Fiorentina 2-0 in the Sela Cup on Saturday evening – here are the player evaluations from the match.
Newcastle’s first of two pre-season cordial matches at St James’ Park this end of the week saw Eddie Howe’s side line-up with a full home introductions gave to Sandro Tonali as well as young people Lewis Miley and Alex Murphy.
Newcastle opened the scoring in the primary half after Miguel Almiron hooked onto a blasting run from Alexander Isak and smoothly applied the completion. It’s the Paraguayan’s third objective of pre-season.
Isak then made it 2-0 in the end arranges as he headed the ball in from Kieran Trippier’s corner. The success takes Joined top of the Sela Cup table after the primary round of coordinates with five places.
With two games on back to back days, most of the players had the option to get an entire an hour and a half added to their repertoire in front of the serious season getting going one weekend from now.
Here are the Newcastle Joined player evaluations from the match…
1. Martin Dubravka – 6
Simplified one save late in the main half as well as two or three cases from crosses.
2. Kieran Trippier – 7
Looked quiet at the back yet nearly got Martin Dubravka out with a lost back pass. Was prevailing in the air and represented a going after danger down the right. Put forth up the second objective with a decent conveyance from a corner.
3. Sven Botman – 6
Wasn’t upset at the back as Newcastle kept their most memorable clean sheet of pre-season.
4. Alex Murphy – 7
Truly agreeable at the back and won a few significant headers as Fiorentina pushed forward.