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… so this is how the Premier League looks after today’s round of matches. Leeds will be perfectly content with their haul of four points from their first three games; that’s two more than Newcastle, whose slow start continues. You could make an argument for Newcastle deserving to win the matches against Aston Villa and Liverpool; they didn’t do so well tonight, though, well snuffed out as they were by Leeds, for whom Dominic Calvert-Lewin buzzed around infectiously on his league debut for the club.
FULL TIME: Leeds United 0-0 Newcastle United
It wasn’t a classic, and a draw seems a fair result. Newly promoted Leeds will be the happier with their point; their fans certainly sound pleased enough. Both clubs now switch their attention to the final two days of the transfer window.
90 min +5: On Sky Sports, Jamie Carragher names Sean Longstaff as his player of the match.
90 min +4: Now it’s Osula’s turn to disappoint from the wing. He shanks into the stand from a promising position on the right.
90 min +3: Harrison sneaks past Livramento on the left. He should probably do more than just win a corner, but can’t tee up anyone in the middle. Nothing comes of the resulting set piece, which Pope claims without fuss.
90 min +2: Newcastle press Leeds back awhile, but Calvert-Lewin snaffles the ball and powers upfield, laying off to Harrison who buys a cheap free kick to release the pressure. Calvert-Lewin has been very impressive.
90 min +1: The first of six additional minutes.
90 min: From the resulting throw, Bogle jinks his way down the right and stands one up in the middle, but Pope is onto him and claims before anyone in white can bundle home.
89 min: Calvert-Lewin has looked sharp and purposeful since coming on, putting himself about to some effect. Now he gets a stride ahead of Burn down the right, and fizzes a low drive towards the bottom-right corner. Pope sticks out a strong leg to hack clear. That was heading in.
88 min: Osula clumsily clanks Stach to the ground. A pointless challenge, because Newcastle were preparing to launch a counter attack. Guimaraes isn’t happy, and moans at the referee, which feels a little bit like displacement 101.
86 min: Bogle crosses from the right, looking for Calvert-Lewin, who prepares to direct a header goalwards from the penalty spot. But Schar is on point and heads behind for a corner instead. A necessary last-ditch challenge … and the resulting corner is a waste of everyone’s time.
85 min: Newcastle appear a little more eager to chase a winner, but Leeds are holding firm and there’s not a great deal happening. Speaking of which … “I’m not saying the game was wildly interesting before Jacob Murphy left the field of play,” begins Kári Tulinius, “but since his substitution, Newcastle’s attacks have been as forgettable as their away kit. Leeds have yet to do anything of note. Murphy might as well have gone home with the ball.”
83 min: Harrison scoops another pass along the inside-left channel. This one’s intended for Aaronson, in a pocket of space, but it’s way too strongly hit and sails through to the keeper.
82 min: Newcastle ping it around to little effect. “Harvey Barnes had scored a goal in five of his six Premier League games against Leeds before tonight,” writes Michael Jenkins. “As a Leeds fan I wasn’t unhappy that Howe decided to start Osula and Murphy ahead of Barnes. Not crazy about him coming on late with the score at 0-0 though.”
80 min: Gudmundsson picks up a knock and is replaced by Justin, freshly signed from Leicester City.
78 min: Guimaraes and Elanga nearly open Leeds up with a middle-distance one-two down the right. Nearly, but Elanga’s pass back is inches off target as Guimaraes enters the box. Had that found its target, Gumnaraes was in space, and one on one with Perri.
76 min: Livramento throws long from the right. Burn’s the target, but the throw doesn’t beat the first man. Leeds dealing with these long hurls rather better than Liverpool did on Monday night.
74 min: Calvert-Lewin, his tail up, now bashes a long-distance shot wide right.
73 min: Harrison intercepts a loose Tonali pass and strides down the left. Newcastle are light at the back. Harrison loops a pass down the channel for Calvert-Lewin, who strides ahead of Schar and tries to bring the ball down with a telescopic leg. He half-controls, but the heavy touch goes through to Pope. So nearly a fine combination between the former Everton duo.
71 min: Newcastle go up the other end and Hall sends a rising screamer over the bar. That wasn’t too far away from the top-left corner, and it’s not certain that Perri was getting there.
70 min: Space momentarily opens up for Gudmundsson down the left. He attempts to cross but Elanga blocks out for a corner. Before it can be taken, Calvert-Lewin comes on for his Premier League debut for Leeds, replacing Nmecha. Then the corner’s taken, and Pope claims it easily enough.
69 min: Scrub that. Botman is replaced anyway, sacrificed for Barnes as Newcastle go from five at the back to four. Botman trudges off under his own steam.
68 min: Botman, who has had his problems with injury, is thankfully good to continue.
67 min: Botman lands awkwardly after an aerial battle with Nmecha. On comes the trainer.
66 min: For a second, it looks as though Osula’s about to tear clear of Struijk … but he’s shoved the defender in the back with both hands. Nope!
65 min: Stach has the chance to release Aaronson into acres down the right, but seriously overhits the pass. Aaronson tries his best to athletically bring the ball under control anyway, but he can’t do so and the opportunity goes by. A smattering of irritated jabbering from the home fans.
63 min: Elanga crosses low from the right. Osula goes over in the vague environs of Rodon, but it’s not a penalty. “Watching Tino Livramento constantly ignore Dan Burn’s overlapping runs is borderline life affirming watching this at 4am,” writes Australia’s number-one Toon fan Chris Paraskevas. “Same goes for every corner that doesn’t clear the first man. We are the worst set piece team in the country.”
62 min: Newcastle make a couple of positive changes of their own, replacing Trippier with Hall and Murphy with Elanga.
60 min: Nmecha’s sheer presence down the right forces Botman into the concession of a corner … which is easily plucked from the sky by Pope. This match has not been an attacking masterclass.
59 min: Trippier sends it in. Guimaraes clatters into the nearest Leeds defender and that’s the free kick wasted. Leeds then make their first changes, sending on Aaronson and Harrison for James and Gnonto.
58 min: Livramento is flipped into the air by Bogle. Free kick, out on the Newcastle left. Trippier prepares to swing it into a packed Leeds box.
57 min: Trippier sends a not particularly good cross in from the right. Struijk considers heading behind for a corner, then pulls out, surprising Perri behind him. The keeper does well to make a reaction stop in double-quick time. Leeds finally clear their lines. Fiasco avoided in the nick of time.
55 min: … is headed clear powerfully by Nmecha.
54 min: This is better, though, as Murphy skips in from the right and buys a ticket for the raffle. He pearls a low swerving shot towards the bottom left, forcing Perri to turn the ball around the post. Fine play all round. Then the resulting corner …
53 min: Tonali and Schar take turns to consider shooting from distance. Neither do. Then Miley slices a simple right-wing cross into the stand behind the goal. It’s all a bit like that at the moment.
51 min: Gnonto scampers down the left and rolls across the face of the Newcastle box for Bogle, who is given a little too much time to line up his shot. Thankfully for Newcastle, Bogle is swinging with his weaker peg and sends the ball sailing high and wide.
49 min: Trippier goes lunging after a loose ball, and catches Nmecha. It’s clumsy rather than naughty, but it’ll hurt all the same. Nmecha gets up again soon enough. The referee not minded to flash yellow if he can avoid doing so, as the Longstaff-Ramsey challenge has already illustrated.
47 min: Newcastle kicked off in the PSG style, incidentally, punting long towards the corner flag. Get hip to the new craze, daddio.
Newcastle get the second half started. They’ve been forced into a change: Ramsey is still apparently feeling the effects of that Longstaff challenge on 21 mins, and has been replaced by Miley.
Speaking of strikers and transfers … here’s a bit of breaking news to while away the half-time break.
HALF TIME: Leeds United 0-0 Newcastle United
Half-chances for both sides, but no cutting edge for either. Just a couple of days until the transfer window shuts.
45 min +2: Nothing much happens in the first two, so let’s hear from Toon fan Chris Paraskevas: “With the amount of delicious 90s-era whipped crosses going in – and Osula doing his best Mark Viduka At Newcastle impersonation, one second behind play every time the ball is delivered – I reckon just chuck Nick Pope up top and let’s see how bad his first touch really is.”
45 min: Newcastle are finishing the half strongly. Schar has a go from the right flank this time, but his long-range whip is always sailing high and wide. There will be four additional first-half minutes.
43 min: Murphy drifts in from the right and has a shot. Blocked. Corner. The set piece is worked long, and Schar, to the left of the D, nearly nets with a looping, dipping, speculative shot that almost drifts into the top-right corner. Had it been on target, Perri was beaten. But it deflects out for another corner, from which nothing comes.
41 min: Newcastle get patient, painting some triangles up and down the right channel, before suddenly pinging Ramsey into space on the flank. Ramsey looks long for Murphy, who can’t Van Basten a volley from an extremely tight angle on the left. Goal kick.
39 min: … nothing occurs. Newcastle attempt to counter but Gnonto stops Osula mid-gallop, and goes into the book.
38 min: Gnonto dribbles in from the left and takes a whack from the edge of the box. The shot deflects off Schar and out for a corner. From which …
36 min: Pope races from his box to clear the ball out for a throw, then deliberately gets in the way of James, stopping the Leeds man taking a quick one, and allowing him to get back into position. Into the book he goes.
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