49 mins Craig Moore was beaten by his Australian international colleague Jason Culina, who swept the ball home with our defence again all at sea. 0-3

68 mins James Milner found his range and dropped one onto Shola Ameobi's head for the unmarked striker to nod home at the Gallowgate end. 1-3

73 mins Another forward burst from Shola was stopped in the area by Eric Addo, who looked suitably dumbfounded when a penalty was awarded - TV replays showing a fair tackle to win the ball and an appeal from Ameobi only for a corner. 

Albert Luque grabbed the ball and placed it on the spot, before coolly slotting home low to the goalkeeper's right, for this third goal at the Gallowgate end in as many games. 2-3

Full time: Newcastle 2 PSV 3

Glenn Roeder said:

"We got a chasing in the first half. I won't disguise that. It was not to do with fitness. We had four or five players who were not on their game today. 

"Consequently against a team of that quality, we could not get the ball. We never won the ball in central areas. We got punished. I can't disguise that, they were worth their lead at half time. 

"They made changes, we made changes and they were more spirited in the second half. There was an awful lot of hard work in the last half hour. 

"The main plusses would be when that third goal went in, it would have been very easy for any group of players to let their heads go down. They didn't do that. We picked ourselves up. We got our reward with a couple of goals. 

"It would have been nice to have got a third to have stayed unbeaten this year.

"That was Damien's first game. He was desperate to get out there and play. We got an hour out of him. He started to tire. There were glimpses of the magic he will produce here. 

"He will give us end product in terms of the goals he makes and scores. He is a typical Newcastle attacking player. He will become a firm favourite here."

"I am satisfied - we concluded this week quite well. The players are fit and I feel we can still make progress. We work hard to gradually reach a high level and this victory is morale boosting at this stage of the pre-season preparations. 

"Newcastle United are a quality side and we knew we would be properly tested for the first time in the pre-season campaign. We had a great training camp, we enjoyed victory tonight and now that the newcomers have adapted, we are on the right track.

"We moved well over the pitch and were completely in control. Newcastle play football the English way and we used the space. 

"We could not keep up the high level in the final thirty minutes, as we were tired and a great many substitutions were brought on. 

"But we put in a decent performance in the first sixty minutes and were frequently able to keep possession for long spells. 

"Bearing in mind that quite a few players started training only last week, I am content with the progress we are making."   

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PSV returned to SJP for the third time in less than a decade and gained their second victory on Tyneside, to go with the 2-0 Champions League win of November 1997. Our only success remains the 2-1 UEFA Cup Quarter Final of April 2004. Shay Given is the only player from either side to have appeared in that trio of games. First Newcastle appearance for Damien Duff following his move from Chelsea. He'd finished on the losing side here as well in his last club appearance, the 1-0 win by Newcastle over Mourinho's men on the final day of last season.

Waffle

Having faced sub-standard opposition thus far in the shape of Norwich and the Norwegians, Glenn Roeder's side were given a wake-up call on Saturday afternoon by a superior Dutch team.

Damien Duff made his first appearance for United, but his new colleagues found themselves two behind by the interval, with little to suggest that a revival was on the cards.

However after conceding a third goal soon after the restart, a reshaped United team made a game of it and could have salvaged an unlikely draw in the final seconds.

Wearing a vivid blue kit, the visitors made the early running and took advantage of their superior pace and passing to go ahead just after the quarter hour.

Some uninspired play thereafter saw us barely threaten an equaliser, before the visitors doubled their advantage in the closing moments of the half.

We left the field amid mild jeers, having failed to test visiting 'keeper Oscar Moens in the opening 45 - a dipping free kick from Nolberto Solano that shaved the crossbar being our best effort in an forgettable  display.

PSV emerged for the second period having made four substitutions, while we swapped Taylor for Moore and arrived late back on the field, after some strong words in the dressing room from an unhappy Roeder.

Things hardly improved though, with Given beaten again four minutes after the restart.  

A reshuffle was inevitable and Milner, Luque and Butt appeared just before the hour - the latter being booed by sections of the SJP crowd.

Duff departed at that point, obviously lacking in fitness but having been our chief threat as he prowled across the front line and gave encouraging hints of things to come.

Zog dropped out wide left in the Irishman's place, with the Spaniard linking up in the front line with Shola and Milner taking the right flank.

An immediate improvement could be detected, with Milner and Carr exposing weaknesses down the right that Solano had failed to exploit.

However our delivery of crosses into the box remained sub-standard until Milner teed up Shola to reduce the deficit.

That brought a previously snoozing home crowd to life and referee Clattenburg had to produce a yellow card after Milner was sent sprawling - although he initially pulled the red from his pocket by mistake.

And it was Clattenburg again who could be seen raising another yellow card while surrounded by irate PSV players following the award of a spot kick to United for what looked like a decent tackle on Shola.

In fairness the same player had gone down under a tackle in the first half that had been deemed a foul, but only attracted a free kick on the edge of the area, despite TV replays later showing the offence had taken place on the other side of the line.

We had idly speculated in advance of the season that Craig Moore could be entrusted with spot kicks following his international success in Germany, but instead it was a man who didn't make it to the World Cup finals who grabbed the ball and netted, Luque claiming later that he'd promised to score in the match for the fans - and his girlfriend.

However despite PSV then making three more changes at that point, our expected big push for a leveller never quite materialised.

Some trickery from Luque in the final seconds saw the ball bounce across the PSV six yard box, before James Milner dragged his shot well wide of the goal when presented with a golden opportunity to equalise just before the end. 

By then the increasingly leaden skies had deposited the expected rain, but thankfully not on the scale of Wednesday's cloudburst in Norfolk. 

There was the briefest of appearances between the posts for Tim Krul, making a first senior appearance against his countrymen at the end of the ground where his penalty saving and scoring heroics had given us victory in an FA Youth Cup tie last season.

Overall then a deserved defeat for Roeder's side, outpaced and at times found lacking in ideas and energy - the creative talents of messrs Solano, N'Zogbia and Emre being largely negligible throughout and Shola toiling up front on his own in the opening 45 especially. 

Biffa

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