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23-03-2025
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Newcastle Women 1 - 0 Sunderland: Record-breaking derby day sees late drama
IF the first professional derby between Newcastle Women and Sunderland in October was a rebirth for the women's game in the North East, today's spectacle at St James' Park was its coming of age. Crunching challenges, sendings off, late drama. Newcastle had arrived in professional women's game well and truly. This was perhaps their biggest day yet. A league record 38,502 took in the action as Shania Hayles kept bragging rights on Tyneside for the second time this season. Fan parks, full stands and pre-match entertainment gave a glimpse into what the ownership's ambitious future for the club might look like if they make it to the Women's Super League. A big, loud, community. And it rose to roar for derby-day super sub Hayles. (Image: The Northern Echo) Her strike with 12 minutes to play was the difference on the pitch, but the 38,000-strong crowd played their part too. Geordies were still filing into the stadium – such was the demand for tickets for this match – when the first big chance of the game fell to Beth Lumsden after being sent through by Demi Stokes. But an oncoming Demi Lambourne was equal to the effort. A frenetic opening 10 minutes gave way to a more settled rhythm as the first half progressed with the visitors from Wearside looking to break up the play and counter. Two Lumsden freekicks clattered the wall but the bite of the derby restricted chances with the game broken up by a handful of midfield fouls. In the 33rd minute a six-yard box scramble with strikes first from Rachel Furness, then from Amber Keegan-Stobbs forced Lambourne into some decent saves. With Newcastle growing in confidence, the resulting corner found its way to Stokes via a cross-shot from the right but her header looped over the far corner. Just before half-time Furness drove towards the box and hit one from 25 yards but Lambourne comfortably held it. Something new for half-time entertainment – unseen for seven decades – as the Carabao Cup made its homecoming. To St James' Park. Darren Eales and club legend Bob Moncur showing off the trophy to the crowds in a display of synergy between the Toon's two senior sides. As fans patiently await the 'parade' next weekend, it is slowly sinking in for many that this is a club with a major honour. The second half started slower than the first, with Newcastle attacking the Gallowgate in a bid to break the deadlock. Both sides traded long-distance strikes over the bar in the opening 20 minutes with Newcastle still controlling possession and Sunderland looking to break things up. The Black Cats will have been the happier side at half-time, but they needed to fashion chances to match their resilience. In the 68th minute, Lumsden broke down the left and cut the ball back looking to find Emily Murphy. Lambourne spilled the pass but was able to reclaim – to the relief of travelling fans and the frustration of the tens of thousands of Geordies. The introduction of Hayles with 20 minutes to play livened up a forward line that had began to tire and Newcastle – who were attacking down the hill – were more strident in their forward play. And then St James' erupted. Murphy drove on the break and Hayles peeled off her marker to the right side of the box. A well-timed ball found the Jamaican forward who cut onto her left and hammered the ball into the near post leaving Lambourne stranded. It was typical of Murphy's selflessness – she was everywhere over the course of the match, pressing, tracking back, making space. A victory for Newcastle felt inevitable. A mood shift on Tyneside accompanied by the League Cup's arrival has permeated all levels of the club. This is a club hell-bent on winning. Perhaps too much as head coach Becky Langley was shown a red card for holding onto the ball in stoppage time. But this was always going to be Newcastle's day. Middlesbrough FC score victory with council for training ground plans North East cancer survivor celebrates Wembley win with charity that saved him 'Absolute joke': Newcastle fans are fuming at club's victory 'parade' plans As the clock ran out and nearly 40,000 rose to their feet, Newcastle had won their second Tyne-Wear derby of the league campaign and while they won't go up this season, it is a standard the club will be looking to meet time and time again. Newcastle United: Moan, Stokes, Keegan-Stobbs, Gregory, Cooper, Furness, McQuade, Wardlaw, Lumsden, Murphy, Cataldo Sunderland: Lambourne, Brown, Goddard, Westrup, Stapleton, Corbyn, Fenton, Flannery, Kitching, Scarr, Watson
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27-01-2025
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Newcastle United Women 3 Portsmouth Women 2
Goals in either half from Shania Hayles saw United race into a two-goal lead but they were pegged back within three second-half minutes thanks to efforts from Sophie Quirk and Riva Casley. However, Becky Langley's side responded in impressive fashion by retaking the lead in the 74th minute, with Demi Stokes registering her first Newcastle goal in the Barclays Women's Championship. With chances hard to come by in the opening exchanges, Jasmine McQuade carved open the game's first effort 20 minutes in. McQuade pinched the ball off a Portsmouth player in their own defensive third, but after driving to the edge of the area, her effort was straight down the throat of Hannah Poulter. That chance was what United required to move up a gear, with Hayles netting just four minutes later. New signing Freya Gregory's neat ball into the box was controlled beautifully by Hayles to take out a Pompey defender, with her next touch going across Poulter and into the bottom corner. The Lasses almost doubled their advantage two minutes later when a deflected cross fell to Portsmouth's Georgia Freeland, whose hacked clearance rebounded off the bar into the arms of Poulter. The visitors thought they'd found themselves level in first-half added time when Quirk's cutback allowed Emma Thompson to tap home into an empty net, but not before the linesman had flagged for offside. United came flying out of the traps in the second half with Deanna Cooper getting first contact on a Stokes corner, but the centre-back could only glance her header narrowly wide. However, that disappointment didn't last long. Seconds later, a long ball over the top released Hayles, who took two touches towards goal before caressing her left-footed shot beyond Poulter to double her - and United's - tally for the afternoon. Hayles looked poised to record her second hat-trick of the season as she cushioned Katie Barker's cross from the right before slicing a half-volley narrowly wide of the far post from 18 yards. Pompey clawed themselves back into the game just before the hour mark when Quirk whipped a free kick from the edge of the penalty into the far corner. Just four minutes later, the away side got back level when Casley glanced a header home at the near post following Freeland's whipped-in corner. It was all Newcastle from when the equaliser went in, and the Lasses were duly rewarded with just over 15 minutes to play. United did well not to force the pass and kept the ball moving on the edge of the area with Lois Joel teeing up Stokes, who took one touch before firing towards goal, and via the aid of a deflection, saw her drive nestle beyond Poulter. Portsmouth were certainly not going away easily. With less than five minutes to play, they had a string of corners, the most dangerous of which was an Annie Hutchings' long-range strike that hit the crossbar. Newcastle United Women: Claudia Moan, Lia Cataldo, Deanna Cooper (Hannah Greenwood 53), Charlotte Wardlaw, Demi Stokes, Amber-Keegan Stobbs (c), Lois Joel, Jasmine McQuade (Rachel Furness 75), Katie Barker, Shania Hayles, Freya Gregory (Amy Andrews 67) Subs not used: Grace Donnelly, Hannah Hawkins, Isabella Sibley, Sophie Haywood
