Twitter reacts as Newcastle score 5 in first half against sorry Tottenham

In the event you’ve watched any quantity of soccer in 2023, your prediction for Sunday’s Newcastle United vs Tottenham recreation was in all probability ‘Newcastle win’.

That utterance of ‘Newcastle win’ in all probability wasn’t adopted by ‘…by scoring 5 unanswered targets within the first half’.

And but, amazingly, that is precisely what occurred.

Contained in the opening 21 minutes of the sport, Newcastle had taken a reasonably astonishing five-goal lead.

The primary of those targets got here contained in the opening minute, when Jacob Murphy stole in on the again submit to faucet dwelling the ball after Hugo Lloris saved a Joelinton effort (yeah, Lloris really made a save on this recreation).

5 minutes later it was 2-0, this time with Joelinton capitalising on Pedro Porro falling asleep and permitting him to steal in on aim, around the goalkeeper, and side-foot into the online.

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Subsequent as much as embarrass themselves in a Tottenham shirt was Eric Dier, whose aimless go into the midfield was latched onto by Fabian Schar earlier than Murphy took it from the centre again and fired an exquisite effort into the underside nook of the online.

9 minutes gone – Newcastle 3-0 Tottenham.

We would have to attend a frankly ridiculous ten minutes for Newcastle United’s subsequent aim.

That fourth would come from the in-form Alexander Isak, who capitalised on (you guessed it) some horrific defensive positioning from Tottenham to storm in and rating his first of the sport.

Fortunately the await a fifth wasn’t so long as the await the fourth, with Isak scoring his second to make it 5-0 within the twentieth minute.

21 minutes gone: Newcastle 5-0 Tottenham.

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