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Reserves Report & Player Ratings: NUFC 5-1 Aston Villa
By Paul Mosley 15 Nov 2005
Future Newcastle number 9 and England hopeful Shola Ameobi did his chances no harm at all by firing a superb hat-trick as Newcastle Reserves brushed aside a youthful Aston Villa second string.
Sarcasm aside, the Nigerian Geordie scored 3 excellently taken goals to put strike partner and the Reserves’ top scorer this season Michael Chopra in the shade. Not a particularly dark shade, however, as Chopra added two of his own in Newcastle’s second consecutive 5-goal home game, and bringing us to a total of 13 goals in 3 matches!
Skipper Kris Gate was back from a short spell training with Grimsby Town, and took the place of Craig Baxter, who had played at Middlesbrough in our 4-3 defeat last week. Also in was Lee Bowyer, who took the opportunity for a fitness-boosting run out ahead of the 1st team game at Chelsea on Saturday, and he took the place of Daryl Smylie. In the 3rd and final change, Tony Caig came in for young Dutchman Tim Krul.
Newcastle won the toss and chose to attack the John Smiths Stand, with Aston Villa getting the game underway. Tony Caig gave us an indication of what was to come when he sliced a clearance straight onto the top of the West Stand. Bowyer marked his return with 2 silly early challenges which brought out the yellow card of referee Andy Haines within 6 minutes.
Toon got into their stride, and a neat one-two between Chopra and Ameobi saw the former one-on-one with Olejnik, who saved his effort. Tshimanga had a similar effort at the other end well stopped by Caig.
After a quiet opening 20 minutes, the game took off. Brittain got away down the right and crossed for Chopra who controlled but blazed over.. Straight down the other end a weak Osbourne shot was spilled by Caig, and in the resultant scramble Sam Williams bundled the ball over the line to give a young Villa side the lead.
Almost straight from the kick-off, Lee Clark found Ameobi down the Newcastle left, and after some clever trickery and dancing to shake off the defender he slotted past Olejnik for a well-taken equaliser.
Just as the crowd began to take a breath, Chopra stole the ball and combined with Bowyer to play Ameobi in again, and once again Shola made no mistake, and we were in front 3 minutes after being behind!
Gardner then tried his luck from 20 yards, and Caig saved well, holding on this time to the infamous yellow ball. Five minutes later Paul Green felled Lee Bowyer in the penalty area, and referee Haines awarded a spot kick, but failed to show any card to Green. Chopra stepped up to score his 10th goal in 7 and a third games from the spot, and United now had a comfortable 3-1 advantage.
After another tame long range effort from Gardner was easily saved by Caig, chaos temporarily reigned in the Newcastle area. Caig horrible miscued his clearance (again), a poor backpass fell short, but Gardner failed to capitalise and shot wide. A poor challenge from Lee Clark then saw him join Bowyer in the referee’s book, with Gardner putting the free kick well wide.
2 minutes before the break and we added a 4th goal. Brittain again escaped dangerously down the right, and crossed for Chopra who tapped home past Olejnik to make it 4-1, and get his 11th goal in 8 reserve games this season, with United absolutely cruising despite never having really got out of 1st gear. Soon afterwards the referee blew for half time.
Your humble correspondent spent half time chatting to a nice young Chinese couple, having already given them an impromptu ‘match preview’. The girl told me ‘Newcastle Union will definitely win’, and they ask me about Ameobi. I tell them he occasionally plays for the 1st team, to which the young lady replies ‘He has played for United States?’ Her male friend also astutely noted that if Owen were playing it would be 100-1. Bless them, they were a wonderfully polite pair.
Back to the football then. 5 minutes into the 2nd period, Chopra fed Bowyer who rounded Olejnik but put in a weak shot which the Villa defenders were easily able to stop. He then showed he was back in his stride with a lovely ball over the top for Chopra, who was scythed down by O’Halloran, who was rightly cautioned. At the same moment, Lee Clark was replaced by Liam Atkin.
The ball then fell to Kris Gate on the edge of the Villa box, and he was chopped down while shooting. Another yellow card followed, this time for Gardner. The youthful and noisy crowd were chanting “We want five”, and Shola Ameobi granted their wish by beautifully curling the ball beyond Olejnik to complete a superb hat-trick.
Caig then did well to tip over a header from Gardner and Chris Farman, having suffered a knock in a challenge around the hour, was replaced by Daryl Smylie. Caig then caused more heart attacks by completely mis-controlling a backpass, but he got away with scrambling the ball out for a corner.
There was then a minor skirmish after a nasty challenge by Osbourne. Osbourne then decided to start looking for a fight with Smylie, and Ameobi ran from yards away to get involved. All 3 players were subsequently cautioned by the referee. Seconds later Ameobi committed another foul and got a very strong final warning from Mr Haines. This was the cue for Tommy Craig to make use of his final change, as he brought on Carl Finnigan in Shola’s place.
The final twenty minutes were only memorable for a succession of Villa substitutions, and a Villa player being asked the score by the crowd, the lad actually replying. Caig then tipped another header over in the 90th minute before the referee called time on proceedings to make it 10 goals in 2 home games.
We lookied shaky at the back all night (I believe we seriously missed the presence of Ramage and Elliott), but the only big chances Villa had were down to goalkeeping errors, as was their goal. We also have 2 strikers in good goalscoring form, which is always helpful.
A good result for United then, which continues our rise up the table, towards 4th placed Villa, who were 10 games unbeaten before this hammering, a revenge for our 5-2 loss here on Tyneside last season. On Thursday we begin our Northumberland Senior Cup campaign against North Shields AFC at Whitley Park, and then next Wednesday head to Durham City FC’s ground to take on the great unwashed reserves. And I’ll be at both games to tell you all about hopefully another 2 victories for United.
United:
Caig (6) Clearances were absolutely appalling all night. Spilled a few shots which came his way, but made some decent saves too.
Gate (6) Not as strong as he has been so far this season.
Cave (6) Worked hard but was part of a shaky defence.
Edgar (5) Looked uncomfortable all night.
Huntington (6) probably our best defender on the night, but not as assured as he was 2 weeks ago alongside Elliott.
Clark (6) Struggled to impose himself on the game, and was booked. (Sub Atkin 56)
Brittain (7) A constant threat down the right as ever.
Bowyer (6) Lacking sharpness and fitness, but provided the occasional touch of class one would expect. Booked.
Ameobi (8) Took his hat-trick superbly but lost his head midway through the 2nd half. Booked. (Sub Finnigan 69)
Chopra (8) Another 2 goals to add to his tally and was always a threat, involved in just about everything Newcastle did going forward.
Farman (6) A battling display with nothing to really show for it. (Sub Smylie 62. Booked.)
Subs not used: Krul, Baxter.
Aston Villa: Olejnik, Lowry (Saunders 73), Ward (Philip Green 72), Paul Green, O'Halloran (Mikaelsson 76), Osbourne, Bridges, Gardner, Williams, Lund, Tshimanga. Sub not used: Henderson
Referee
Andy Haines (Sunderland) 4
The poorest display I’ve seen at Kingston Park this season. No real complaints with any of the cautions, but he constantly interrupted play when he could have allowed an advantage, missed several fouls by both sides, missed handballs by both sides, and seemed to lose the plot completely in the 2nd half as decisions became a random ‘point and whistle’ exercise.
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