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History Repeats Itself In Epic Carabao Cup Tie

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After what hasn’t been the best of starts in the Premier League, Newcastle travelled to Nottingham to take on Forest in a Carabao Cup second round tie, on Wednesday evening.

It was hoped that the game, against the Championship side, would see Newcastle win for the first time this season.

Sadly, we were to be disappointed with the side crashing out of the competition, at the hands of Nottingham Forest for a second consecutive season, thereby crushing the Newcastle supports hopes of a decent cup run in the competition that many remember as the League Cup.

Looking to get off to a good start, Newcastle fell behind, to the Championship side, as early as the second minute when a cross from Sam Byram was headed home by the former Newcastle striker, Daryl Murphy.

Despite enjoying large spells of possession, Newcastle rarely engineered any chances that suggested to the travelling support that an equalizer, then possibly a winner, might be on the cards.

But then, in the second minute of stoppage time, up stepped Salomon Rondon, with the on-loan striker netting with a powerful low shot.

Level at 1-1, it looked as if the tie was going to go to penalties, unfortunately, the home side had other ideas and in the fourth minute of stoppage time, Matty Cash put Nottingham Forest back ahead.

Newcastle’s misery was compounded a couple of minutes later when the Portuguese player, Gil Dias, produced a decent chip to give Nottingham Forest a 3-1 win, stunning the Newcastle support.

This weekend, Newcastle go seeking their first win of the season when they take on Manchester City, at the Etihad Stadium, it looks to be a very tough ask to get anything from that game.

Nottingham Forest
3 – 1
Newcastle United

City Ground

Carabao Cup 2nd Round

29/08/2018 8:00 pm

Attendance: 13942

Referee: J. Simpson

Nottingham Forest Newcastle United
Murphy (2), Cash (94), Dias (97) Rondon (92)
Steele Darlow
Hefele
 
Sterry
Byram 39 Schar
Fox Fernandez 69
Robinson
 
Clark
Bridcutt Atsu
Watson Longstaff
 
Bastião Dias
 
Ki Sung-yueng
Antunes Carvalho 82 Kenedy
Lolley 58 Muto 77
Murphy Joselu
 
82

Substitutes

Pantilimon Elliott
Pereira Figueiredo Dummett
Osborn 58 Murphy 77
Cash 82 Rondón 82
Cupido Goncalves Diame
Darikwa 39 Perez
 
69
Appiah Yedlin

Game Statistics

11 Goal attempts 10
7 On Target 1
5 Corners 3
13 Fouls 12
3 Yellow Cards 3
0 Red Cards 0
46 % 54

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