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Saturday September 1, 2007 Finished St. James' Park

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Newcastle United

  • Owen 88’

Wigan Athletic

  1. Owen strike downs Wigan

    Owen strike downs Wigan

    A late goal by Michael Owen condemned ten-man Wigan to a 1-0 defeat at St James' Park. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Newcastle United
    • Wigan Athletic
    • 90+5 And that's the final whistle, Newcastle win 1-0 thanks to the boy with the golden touch, Michael Owen back with a bang. Thanks for joining us, be sure to stick around for Manchester United v Sunderland in 15 minutes!
    • 90+3 Still playing at St James' Park in extended injury time following a selection of horror-clashes, Toon playing it out...
    • 90' N'Zogbia booked for a bad foul on Brown.
    • 90' Free-kick to Wigan, swung in from the right and Harper gets a fist on it but Heskey gets one on him and he's out cold. He's ok after some attention though.
    • 88' Taylor on the ball through the middle, he slips it wide to Martins on the right who curls in a super cross T OWEN AT THE NEAR POST WITH TH DOWNWARD HEADER TO WIN IT FOR NEWCASTLE!!
    • 84' Sickening fall by Taylor after a clash with Heskey, he landed horribly on his neck but, miraculously, he is fine.
    • 80' Free kick comes into OWEN WITH THE HEADER BUT KIRKLAND SPILLS IT AND TAYLOR THRASHES IT HOME! But noooo, disallowed, flag up and I agree this time, Taylor was offside when Owen's first header came in.
    • 78' Brown enters the book for Wigan.
    • 73' Amoebi tries to play it into Owen but off the arm of Bramble and into BUTT BUT HE SENDS IT OVER!
    • 66' NEWCASTLE SUB: Martins on for Smith, finally.
    • 61' Heavy pressure from Newcastle now, almost incessant as Wigan have their backs against the wall...
    • 60' Scharner now in the book...
    • 58' Smith booked for going in late on Scharner. Bent comes on for Koumas for Wigan, if he scores for Wigan he will equal Les Ferdinand's record of scoring for six different Premiership clubs.
    • 55' Long ball which Granqvist chases, he falls over AGAIN and it lets in Amoebi who must score but he curls it wide! Wigan are furious, they think Granqvist was pushed by Amoebi but looking at the replay that was terrible defending agains from the Swede.
    • 47' Heskey is booked for protesting the red card.
    • 46' Oh dear, Steve Bennett has lost the plot and send of Kilbane. It's a second yellow after a clash of heads with Alan Smith, both players flew in to head the ball, as men do, Smith got there fractionally before Kilbane, who cannot exactly suspend himself in mid-flight and his head goes into Smith's. Terrible decision, Smith is hurt but football is a man's game.
    • 46' Second half underway.
    • 45' Half time.
    • 45' In first half stoppage time, corner to Newcastle on the right... Geremi sends it in AND A TOWERING HEADER FROM TAYLOR BUT OFF THE BAR! Newcastle will somehow go in goalless at half time.
    • 43' Taylor on the right, he sends a super cross fizzing across to Owen who flicks it up in the air AND BUT FLIES IN AT THE FAR POST TO HEAD INTO THE NET BUT KIRKLAND SOMEHOW GETS ACROSS! Amazing save! How did he get across to that?
    • 41' Kilbane booked for a wild, late challenge on Steven Taylor.
    • 38' After chesting the ball down Heskey inadvertently smacks Butt in the face, he's down, dazed and confused and eventually is led away with a bloodied face, a nosebleed and possibly a couple of teeth missing.
    • 36' Geremi on the right sends the cross in and SMITH RISES but his header is over the bar!
    • 31' Harper has a nervous moment after spilling a straighforward effort by Scharner but luckily no-one is in the vicinity to make him pay.
    • 26' Terrible error by Granqvist who totally missed his header on the edge of the box and lets Owen in but his finish is well over! He was one-on-one and should have scored but fluffed it - and Granqvist is a lucky boy.
    • 22' Viduka with the flick-on and that seemed to come up off Bramble's hand! But he gets away with it and Steve Bennett waves play-on!
    • 19' Corner to Wigan thenÂ… Koumas swings it in from the right and Melchiot wins the header which Sibierski flicks on to goal but well held by Harper!
    • 18' Free-kick to Wigan at some range which Koumas will take... a superb curling effort into the bottom right but tipped behind by Harper for a corner! Great shot, great save.
    • 16' Owen has a goal disallowed, offside but I don't think so - Wigan failed to clear a cross in from the left, Smith had a crack which seemed to have been deflected off a Wigan shirt into Viduka's path, it ricoched off him to Owen who scored. Neither seemed offside to me.
    • 9' All Toon at the moment, Milner on the left, cuts in onto his right and curls in a great ball for Viduka but headed away by Bramble.
    • 7' Great flick on by Viduka, super header sending Owen clean through, great pace and he finishes low to Kirkland's left but somehow the Wigan keeper gets a fingertip on it! Corner.
    • 3' Crunching tackle on Milner by Melchiot, somehow escaping a booking.
    • 2' Early test for Harper standing in for Given in the Toon goal, long range drive from Koumas, daisy-cutter though and easily gathered by Newcastle's eternal bridesmaid.
    • 1' First half underway at St James' Park!
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.com's LIVE coverage of Newcastle v Wigan in the Premiership, Michael Owen starts, 15:00BST!

  • Summary

    • 88' Taylor on the ball through the middle, he slips it wide to Martins on the right who curls in a super cross T OWEN AT THE NEAR POST WITH TH DOWNWARD HEADER TO WIN IT FOR NEWCASTLE!!
    • 80' Free kick comes into OWEN WITH THE HEADER BUT KIRKLAND SPILLS IT AND TAYLOR THRASHES IT HOME! But noooo, disallowed, flag up and I agree this time, Taylor was offside when Owen's first header came in.
    • 73' Amoebi tries to play it into Owen but off the arm of Bramble and into BUTT BUT HE SENDS IT OVER!
    • 55' Long ball which Granqvist chases, he falls over AGAIN and it lets in Amoebi who must score but he curls it wide! Wigan are furious, they think Granqvist was pushed by Amoebi but looking at the replay that was terrible defending agains from the Swede.
    • 46' Oh dear, Steve Bennett has lost the plot and send of Kilbane. It's a second yellow after a clash of heads with Alan Smith, both players flew in to head the ball, as men do, Smith got there fractionally before Kilbane, who cannot exactly suspend himself in mid-flight and his head goes into Smith's. Terrible decision, Smith is hurt but football is a man's game.
    • 45' In first half stoppage time, corner to Newcastle on the right... Geremi sends it in AND A TOWERING HEADER FROM TAYLOR BUT OFF THE BAR! Newcastle will somehow go in goalless at half time.
    • 36' Geremi on the right sends the cross in and SMITH RISES but his header is over the bar!
    • 26' Terrible error by Granqvist who totally missed his header on the edge of the box and lets Owen in but his finish is well over! He was one-on-one and should have scored but fluffed it - and Granqvist is a lucky boy.
    • 22' Viduka with the flick-on and that seemed to come up off Bramble's hand! But he gets away with it and Steve Bennett waves play-on!
    • 16' Owen has a goal disallowed, offside but I don't think so - Wigan failed to clear a cross in from the left, Smith had a crack which seemed to have been deflected off a Wigan shirt into Viduka's path, it ricoched off him to Owen who scored. Neither seemed offside to me.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Stephen Graham Bennett

  • Newcastle United

    Manager: Sam Allardyce

    On the Field

    • Harper
    • Taylor
    • Rozehnal
    • Caçapa
    • N'Zogbia
    • Smith
    • Geremi
    • Butt
    • Milner
    • Owen
    • Viduka

    Subs

    • Given
    • Ameobi
    • Martins
    • Pattison
    • Edgar

    Injured

    • Emre
    • Babayaro
    • Duff
    • Ramage
    • Carr
    • Barton

    Suspended

    None

  • Wigan Athletic

    Manager: Chris Hutchings

    On the Field

    • Kirkland
    • Melchiot
    • Bramble
    • Granqvist
    • Kilbane
    • Koumas
    • Scharner
    • Brown
    • Landzaat
    • Heskey
    • Sibierski

    Subs

    • Bent
    • Skoko
    • Aghahowa
    • Boyce
    • Pollitt

    Injured

    • Taylor

    Suspended

    None