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Match report
Football Elite
Division 2: Round 1 (setup 3, season 7)
Newcastle United
v.
FC Basel
Formation:
4-5-1
League position:
20
Petr CECH17Roman WEIDENFELLER
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
21
Diego Roberto GODÍN Leal628Stephan LICHTSTEINER
Adil RAMI3DANTE Bonfim Costa Santos
Arturo Erasmo VIDAL Pardo74Yann M'VILA
Mats HUMMELS5Gary CAHILL
Marco VERRATTI6THIAGO Emiliano da SILVA
Mario GÖTZE77WILLIAN Borges da Silva
Marek HAMSÍK86Lukas PODOLSKI
Edinson Roberto CAVANI Gómez9Roberto SOLDADO Rillo
JOĂO Filipe Iria Santos MOUTINHO10Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez, ISCO
Gareth BALE6117Alessandro FLORENZI
Rikki FaulknerManagerMr D Spears-Gellar
Stevan JOVETIC12Stefano MAURI
Bernd LENO13Antonio RÜDIGER
Mirko VUCINIC14Mario SAMPIRISI
Kyriakos PAPADOPOULOS15Domenico BERARDI
Benedikt HÖWEDES16Rafidine ABDULLAH

Newcastle United 1 FC Basel 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 52,322, Stadium: St.James' Park, Referee: Aleksandr GVARDIS 6½, TV: live)
2 CavaniScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
10Corners10
11Fouls18
18Offsides18
5Shots on9
5Shots off3
10Total shots12
4Shots saved7
43%Possession57%
Man of the match: Stephan LICHTSTEINER
2GOAL!! As CAHILL was attempting to hold back VERRATTI the ball fell to CAVANI who shot the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Newcastle United)
7CAVANI stormed through the FC Basel defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
10The bemused WEIDENFELLER stared in disbelief as a backpass from M'VILA dropped just wide.
11A neatly crafted pass from M'VILA, was slammed goalbound by WILLIAN only for the 'keeper to block.
12A shot from PODOLSKI was smothered by CECH.
15The FC Basel 'keeper did well to hold onto a wicked strike from GÖTZE.
18BALE rushed a simple chance.
19A shot from ISCO held little difficulty for CECH.
19A looping shot from BALE was forced wide by the 'keeper.
21HAMSÍK made space on the left and touched the ball to CAVANI who touched the ball wide.
28CECH dived to his left to block a fierce drive from FC Basel's PODOLSKI.
36WILLIAN beat JOĂO MOUTINHO but placed the ball into the arms of the Newcastle United 'keeper.
41A shot from PODOLSKI was kicked off the line by RAMI.
45+1A fine ball from ISCO on the right found PODOLSKI who sliced his effort inches over.
 
52A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming CECH.
53VIDAL beat FLORENZI and hit the ball to CAVANI who dragged his shot wide.
55A lovely effort from CAVANI scraped the outside of the righthand post.
64A accurate pass found FLORENZI and his looping effort floated narrowly over.
70A header by BALE at the far post was comfortably collected by the 'keeper.
75A cross from M'VILA left WILLIAN in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
78FLORENZI worked the ball to PODOLSKI, SOLDADO latched onto his cross and kicked the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
84A thirty yard shot from LICHTSTEINER caused the 'keeper no problem.