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5¹ ZAHA steamed through the Nantes defence but shot straight at the Nantes 'keeper. 5¹ KONKO worked the ball to AYEW, PAYET latched onto his pass and kicked the ball within easy reach of GOMES. 6¹ GOAL!! A wonderful drive from ALBRIGHTON was pushed away by the 'keeper only as far as JANSSEN who hit the ball past the stranded Nantes 'keeper. (1-0 Newcastle United) 9¹ LUCAS floated the ball to ZAHA who nodded it over the bar. 10¹ A corner fell to JANSSEN who fired an effort over. 12¹ BOJAN beat four Nantes players and stroked an effort wide. 14¹ BOJAN receives a yellow card by the ref. 16¹ GOAL!! An outswinging corner was kicked clear only for PAYET to hit the ball home. (1-1) 18¹ A useful ball from CARRICK on the right bobbled toward JANSSEN who scuffed his effort wide. 21¹ GOMES saved a glorious shot from DJORDJEVIC. 29¹ GOAL!! A shot from PAYET raced through a crowd of players and trickled past the unsighted GOMES. (2-1 Nantes) 32¹ DJORDJEVIC booted the ball wide from just outside the area. 34¹ A pin-point pass was collected by BOJAN and his left foot shot floated narrowly wide. 36¹ GOAL!! Newcastle United were awarded a penalty after a foul on BOJAN and JANSSEN put it past the Nantes 'keeper who managed to get a hand to the ball. (2-2) 44¹ CARRICK shot wide. 1² A free-kick from DJORDJEVIC raced inches wide. 6² A twenty-five yard drive from ZAHA caused RIOU no problem. 10² GIBBS given a yellow card by NORMAN for a cynical tackle. 14² KONKO cautioned for a bad foul. 20² The Newcastle United 'keeper saved a refined shot from PAYET. 28² JANSSEN beat KONKO and drilled the ball to ZAHA who fired his shot wide. 33² A poor shot from DJORDJEVIC trickled agonisingly wide. 35² PAYET was put clear by KONKO and he nutmegged GOMES but struck his shot inches wide. 36² The referee books MOTTA. 37² CLICHY dribbled away from DAVIES and rifled a poor shot over. 39² WALKER fluffed an easy chance.

Newcastle United   League position: 10 Home league form: WXWL Overall league form: XWWXLLXL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Heurelho GOMES 6½ 1 7  Rémy RIOU Kyle WALKER 6½ 2 5½ Christophe JALLET Kieran GIBBS 8  3 7½ Gaël CLICHY (c)Michael CARRICK 7½ 4 7  Thiago MOTTA(c) Tomás HÜBSCHMAN 6½ 5 7½ Bostjan CESAR Curtis DAVIES 6½ 6 7  Gabriel CICHERO LUCAS Pérez 6½ 7 6½ Abdoulay KONKO Wilfried ZAHA 7½ 8 8  Dimitri PAYET (p)Vincent JANSSEN 6½ 9 7  Filip DJORDJEVIC(p) (f)Marc ALBRIGHTON 6  10 5½ Vincent BESSAT(f) BOJAN Krkic 6  11 6½ Jordan AYEW Manager Seamus COLEMAN    12    Mamadou NIANG Brad GUZAN    13    Michael LANGER Nathaniel CLYNE 6  14    Abdoulaye MÉITÉ Yuri ZHIRKOV    15    Olivier VEIGNEAU DIEGO CAPEL Trinidad    16

Nantes   League position: 17 Away league form: WWLX Overall league form: LWWWWLWX Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Newcastle United 2 Nantes 2 (Half-time: 2-2, Attendance: 43,902, Stadium: St.James' Park, Referee: Morgan Norman 7½) Janssen 6¹, Janssen 36¹ (pen) Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Payet 16¹, Payet 29¹ AlbrightonóClyne 5²       Bojan 14¹, Gibbs 10² Konko 14², Motta 36² 5 3 11 12 2 0 4 5 8 5 12 10 2 2 45% 55% ¶ Man of the match: Kieran Gibbs ¶