Aston Villa 1-3 Newcastle United: Dominic Scurr reaction

Dominic Scurr reflects on Newcastle United's 3-1 win at Aston Villa in the Premier League.

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00:00 I'm in the dark here at Villa Park but fortunately things are looking a whole

00:05 lot brighter for Newcastle United following a 3-1 win here against Aston

00:10 Villa tonight. Thoroughly deserved a real return to what was so from Eddie Howe's

00:16 side last season I thought. It was was excellent from the start, deserved the

00:20 2-0 lead at the break both coming from set-piece situations. Kieran Trippie has

00:24 delivery eventually turned in on both occasions by Fabian Scher. So first-half

00:30 brace from the centre-back and it was a very positive first half just with one

00:34 quite serious blemish in Alexander Isak going off injured just minutes before

00:40 the break, a groin problem from him and Eddie Howe's not sure how serious it is.

00:45 He hopes it's not serious but did say it's a bit too early to tell so we'll

00:50 wait and see on him but it leaves Newcastle without a fit senior striker

00:55 going into the Luton Town game but hopefully Callum Wilson will return. He

01:00 hasn't returned to training yet but is understood to be very close. Harvey Barnes

01:04 also back in contention for that game. So injury blow, fresh injury blow for

01:10 Newcastle United but hopefully people return in for the weekend. But this game,

01:13 back to this game, Newcastle you always felt maybe needed that third goal in the

01:17 second half and fortunately it came quite quickly. Miguel Almon who came on

01:23 for Alexander Isak, linking up well with Anthony Gordon and playing a great ball

01:28 in for Jacob Murphy also back in the starting lineup in a Premier League game

01:33 at least having returned at the weekend. Turns it in, well Alex Moreno own goal

01:38 but Jacob Murphy got the last touch from a Newcastle player to make it 3-0 and

01:44 from there Newcastle shut up shop. Leon Bailey came on for Villa caused all

01:48 sorts of problems really for about 10-15 minutes. Olly Watkins pulled the goal

01:53 back but credit to Eddie Howe, he spotted the danger, brought on Tino Livramento

01:58 switched to a back five and Newcastle managed to see the game out. There was a

02:02 quick scare, Olly Watkins did score again but ruled out for offside. Could have

02:07 been a very interesting nervy end to the game had that counted but yeah Newcastle

02:12 saw it out up to seventh in the league. Things are looking a whole lot more

02:16 positive following a really big really impressive win at Villa Park.