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Commentary
COURTOIS stopped a lovely shot from FLORENZI.
ENES beat four Newcastle United players and stroked a golden opportunity wide.
HIGUAÍN touched the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
10¹A free-kick from VIDAL floated just beyond the near post.
12¹A shot from RODRÍGUEZ was smothered by COURTOIS.
13¹A penalty box meleé resulted in ENES driving the ball over.
21¹MATUIDI chipped the ball to RODRÍGUEZ who touched it just beyond the near post.
22¹A good effort from GÖTZE scraped the outside of the righthand post.
24¹GÖTZE ran onto a great ball from DE BRUYNE but pulled his shot wide of the goal.
29¹AYOZE worked the ball to VIDAL, ZABALETA controlled his pass and hoofed the ball within easy reach of the FC Basel 'keeper.
38¹ENES's header was well saved by COURTOIS.
43¹SILVA scuffed a simple chance.
HIGUAÍN headed over the bar.
A cross from FLORENZI left RODRÍGUEZ in lots of space but he rushed his shot.
GOAL!! The creative JORDI ALBA neatly headed on a cross for RODRÍGUEZ to hit the ball in. (1-0 FC Basel)
A header by FLORENZI at the near post was easily collected by COURTOIS.
An outswinging corner was touched into the arms of WEIDENFELLER by ZABALETA.
10²BERARDI beat SILVA and whacked the ball to RODRÍGUEZ who dragged his shot wide.
24²FLORENZI beat DE BRUYNE but fired the ball into the arms of the Newcastle United 'keeper.
30²A drive from GÖTZE seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to force the ball away.
36²A mix up in the FC Basel defence enabled HIGUAÍN to crack the ball wide.

 
FC Basel
 
League position: 16
Home league form: XWLW
Overall league form: LXOWLWLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Roman WEIDENFELLER1Thibaut COURTOIS
(c)DANI ALVES2Pablo ZABALETA
JORDI ALBA Ramos3Leander DENDONCKER
Blaise MATUIDI4Kevin DE BRUYNE
Marian SARR5Mats HUMMELS
Stephan LICHTSTEINER6Jonathan TAH
Alessandro FLORENZI7David SILVA(c)
James RODRÍGUEZ8Mario GÖTZE
(p)ENES Ünal9Gonzalo HIGUAÍN(p)
(f)ISCO10Arturo VIDAL(f)
Domenico BERARDI11AYOZE Pérez
Manager
Juan BERNAT  12  Joël MATIP
Germano VAILATI  13  Samir HANDANOVIC
Keita BALDÉ  14  Chancel MBEMBA
JUANFRAN  15  Daryl JANMAAT
Kevin STROOTMAN  16  Jean-Paul BOËTIUS
 
Newcastle United
 
League position: 6
Away league form: LWXW
Overall league form: LWWWWWXW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
FC Basel 1 Newcastle United 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 38,430, Stadium: St. Jakob-Park, Referee: Wieland Ziller 6)

Rodríguez 3²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
  
  
  
010
208
10
64
56
1110
54
51%49%
Man of the match: Alessandro Florenzi