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Newcastle 4-3 NOTT Forest-Match Report: Crazy Stint in the first half is enough to win

Newcastle United won an important 4: 3 victory against Nottingham Forest in St. James' Park with a remarkable 11-minute flood in the first half to overcome a shaky performance in the second half and a threatening start in the game.

In the first few minutes, the Magpies had a rocky, including the admitted by Callum Hudson-Odoi, who used a terrible mistake of a terrible mistake by Jacob Murphy and Nick Pope. However, Eddie Howe's team reacted in a strong way.

18-year-old Lewis Miley, who compensated for his first start to the prime minister League with a low, composed finish in the 23rd minute.

Just two minutes later, Jacob Murphy made his earlier mistakes well again and bundled the second to give them the lead. Alexander Isak then continued his good shape and achieved a penalty in the 33rd minute after a Var review for handball before adding a second two minutes later and scored his goal in 76 appearances at 50 per 50.

At that time the match seemed to be in Newcastle's hands, but Nottingham Forest was not yet finished.

The visitors came out more in the second half, and Nikola Milenkovic halved the deficit with a goal in the 63rd minute. In the course of the game, the tension increased when Ryan Yates scored a late goal in the 90th minute to score 4: 3, so that the domestic audience was nervous because of a potential forest equalization and another lost opportunity to climb up the table .

Despite the nervous end, Newcastle recorded the three points, which is decisive for the qualification of the Champions League.

The victory put the magpies fifth in the table, on points with fourth place in Manchester City, and gave them an urgently needed reaction after the defeats of the Premier League against Bournemouth and Fulham had contested successive reaction.

Newcastle is now facing an important run of devices, including a trip to Liverpool on Wednesday in an early preview of the Carabao Cup.