Newcastle United	0 - 1	Athletic Bilbao
Half time:	0 - 0
Score Sheet:
		Guerrero (64)
	Teams
Given Barton Elliott Hughes Dabizas Solano Lee Bellamy Ameobi Robert Bassedas		Lafuente Lacruz Larrazabal Garcia Rios Urrutia Etxeberria Guerrero Urzaiz Alkiza Gonzalez
Substitutes:
Harper for Given (46) O'Brien for Dabizas (46) Griffin for Barton (46) LuaLua for Ameobi (46) Marcelino for Hughes (71) Acuna for Lee (71) Bernard for Elliott (83)		To follow
Subs not used:
		Aranzubia, Vales Varvla, Ocio, Gurendez, Orbaiz, del Horno, Yeste, Ezquerro, Cuellar, Martinez, Karanka, Bueguena, Jaio
Bookings:
Sendings off:
n/a		n/a
Referee: David Laws
Attendance: 18,189. Another record for the competition.

Half time: Newcastle  0  Athletic Bilbao  0

64 mins. A deflected shot from Guerrero that looped over Harper who may have thought it was going wide. 0-1 

Full time: Newcastle  0  Athletic Bilbao 1 

Uncle Bobby said this about new boy Laurent Robert:

"Laurent was our inspiration," he said. "He had moments of genius. He looked what he is: a talent.

"We just need to know how to get the ball to him more often. That's quite easily remedied on the training ground."

Robson added: "It was a disappointing match for me because we faded so badly in the second half.

"It's our first defeat in six games, but I've let the players know what I feel about it.

"I know it's different because it was a semi-festive occasion, but we played with a sort of semi-festive attitude.

"We had too many people today playing negative football and I have said to them: 'Don't go home and think everything is alright, because it isn't.' "

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