Newcastle United Football Club - Match reports

Season 1997-98
Derry City (n) Friendly

Date: Wednesday 16th July 1997, 8.15pm

Venue: Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland

Conditions: soaking wet by the end

Admission: Ł24 stand, Ł12 terrace
(day tickets covering two matches)

Programme: Ł2.50 (separate issue to 15th)

Derry City		Newcastle
	0 - 2
Half time:	0 - 2

Score Sheet:
		Crawford (7) Beardsley (36)

	Teams
O'Dwod Honerty Hargan Hutton Curran Dykes Mohan Hegarty Beckett L.Coyle R.Coyle		Srnicek Barton Hughes Albert Watson Hamilton Lee Crawford Tomasson Ferdinand Beardsley

Substitutes:
(59) Brady for R.Coyle (66) Kelly for Curran (76) Semple for aMohan		Ketsbaia for Crawford (46) Howey for Albert (46) Gillespie for Hamilton (73)

Subs not used:
tbc		Gudjonsson Hislop

Bookings:
None		None
Dismissals:
None		None

Referee: tbc

Attendance: 14,500

Goals

7 mins Dubliner (although US born) Jimmy Crawford saw his speculative 25 yard shot take a large deflection off a Derry defender and wrong-foot the goalkeeper 1-0

36 mins Des Hamilton's cross was headed down by Les Ferdinand for Peter Beardsley to hammer home 2-0

Half time: City 0 United 2

Full time: City 0 United 2

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Stats

A variety of ailments saw three Magpies sit this one out: Alan Shearer (back), John Beresford (calf) and David Batty (foot).

There were first senior outings for Des Hamilton and Jimmy Crawford but United bade farewell to David Ginola, whose move to Spurs was officially confirmed earlier in the day.

Pre-season pitch time (in minutes):

Albert 90+45=135
Barton 90+90=180
Batty 45+0=45
Beardsley 0+90=90 (1 goal)
Crawford 0+45=45 (1 goal)
Ferdinand 0+90=90
Gillespie 90+17=107 (1 goal)
Given 90+0=90
Hamilton 0+73=73
Howey 71+45=116
Hughes 19+90=109
Ketsbaia 90+45=135
Lee 90+90=180
Shearer 90+0=90
Srnicek 0+90=90
Tomasson 90+90=180 (2 goals)
Watson 90+90=180

Waffle

United easily won the Irish International Club Soccer Tournament at a damp Lansdowne Road on Wednesday night.

Irish part-timers Derry had beaten Celtic the previous day, but were out of their depth against Newcastle, who could have won by a greater margin.

Following Crawford's fortunate early strike, Les Ferdinand struck the goal frame twice before providing a knockdown for Peter Beardsley to double the lead.

A loss of concentration just before half time by United saw Pavel Srnicek pull off an outstanding block to prevent Liam Coyle from reducing the deficit with an acrobatic bicycle kick.

However the second half was a non-event in the driving rain and a sodden Magpies side were presented with silverware after the final whistle.

Biffa

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