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2¹ A fine ball from ROBBEN on the right bobbled toward CAVANI who scuffed his shot just wide. 3¹ GOAL!! After ROBBEN was fouled PIRAUX waved play-on and SÁNCHEZ went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Newcastle United) 7¹ GOAL!! A wonderful bit of skill enabled IBRAHIMOVIC to dribble through the Athletic Bilbao defence and score. (2-0 Newcastle United) 23¹ GOAL!! A deep corner left PIGLIACELLI struggling and IBRAHIMOVIC side-footed the ball into the net. (3-0 Newcastle United) 28¹ A drive from EDUARDO seemed a certain goal but the Newcastle United 'keeper managed to fist the ball away. 34¹ BALE beat two Athletic Bilbao players and fired a great chance over. 38¹ A mix up in the Newcastle United defence enabled VELA to volley the ball over. 5² The motionless Athletic Bilbao 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from BOTÍA fell just wide. 7² GOAL!! An imaginative DANI ALVES played a delightful ball down the middle to MÜLLER who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (4-0 Newcastle United) 14² The 'keeper was able to block a wicked shot. 16² A bad tackle gets TOQUERO a yellow card. 18² GOAL!! A short corner was floated out to VELA who shot the ball into the net. (4-1 Newcastle United) 21² PIRAUX cautions VELA for violent conduct against DANI ALVES. 22² GOAL!! A poor backpass by AURTENETXE enabled ROBBEN to nip in and drive the ball past the Athletic Bilbao 'keeper. (5-1 Newcastle United) 24² ROBBEN floated the ball to IBRAHIMOVIC who turned it over the bar. 30² The 'keeper saved a refined strike from JURADO. 31² VIDAL beat BOTÍA and whacked the ball to DANI ALVES who fumbled his effort wide. 37² A great effort from ROBBEN scraped the outside of the righthand post. 38² ROBBEN was put clear by VIDAL and he beat the Athletic Bilbao 'keeper but glanced his shot wide. 41² CAVANI nodded the ball wide from the edge of the box. 41² An outswinging corner was forced into the arms of the 'keeper by OSVALDO. 45² GOAL!! A poor goal-kick was intercepted by VIDAL who setup IBRAHIMOVIC with an easy chance. (6-1 Newcastle United)

Newcastle United   League position: 3 Home league form: WWXW Overall league form: WWWWWXLW Formation: 3-4-1-2

Line-ups (c)Petr CECH 7½ 1 7  Mirko PIGLIACELLI DANI ALVES 7½ 2 7½ Andoni IRAOLA(c) Jérôme BOATENG 8  3 8½ Jon AURTENETXE Thomas MÜLLER 7½ 4 7  MARIO SUÁREZ Mata Mats HUMMELS 7½ 5 7  Alberto BOTÍA Arturo VIDAL 6  6 6  Miguel TORRES Alexis SÁNCHEZ 7  7 7  José JURADO Gareth BALE 7½ 8 6½ Carlos VELA (p,f)Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC 7  9 7  EDUARDO da Silva(p) Edinson CAVANI 6½ 10 6  Gaizka TOQUERO(f) Arjen ROBBEN 6½ 11 6½ OSVALDO Lourenco Rikki Faulkner Manager Marco VERRATTI    12    Shane DUFFY Samir HANDANOVIC    13    RODRI Mario GÖTZE    14    Marc ALBRIGHTON Diego GODÍN    15    Emilio NSUE David ALABA    16    DANI PACHECO

Athletic Bilbao   League position: 18 Away league form: WLLL Overall league form: LWLLLLLW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Newcastle United 6 Athletic Bilbao 1 (Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 52,368, Stadium: St.James' Park, Referee: Michel Piraux 7½) Sánchez 3¹, Ibrahimovic 7¹, Ibrahimovic 23¹, Müller 7², Robben 22², Ibrahimovic 45² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Vela 18²           Toquero 16², Vela 21² 4 11 12 6 8 7 6 9 12 2 18 11 0 8 47% 53% ¶ Man of the match: Jon Aurtenetxe ¶