Bournemouth ended Newcastle’s nine-game winning run with a brilliant away performance in a 4-1 win at St James’ Park.
Justin Kluivert scored a superb hat-trick before Milos Kerkez added a fourth as Andoni Iraola’s men recovered from Bruno Guimaraes’ first-half equalizer as the visitors ran out deserved winners.
The Cherries extended their unbeaten run to 11 games in all competitions with this victory, which sees them climb to sixth place in the table for the moment at least.
Newcastle v Bournemouth as it happened
Newcastle were the Premier League’s in-form team before kick-off, but Bournemouth caught the hosts napping early on, producing a number of chances that crossed the goal in the early stages.
They got the goal their pressure deserved after six minutes when Antoine Semenyo found space on the left before Kluivert found the bottom corner perfectly.
Justin Kluivert brilliantly opened the scoring at the start of the match for Bournemouth 🤩
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The Magpies looked to be struggling to move up a gear but found themselves level in simplest form when Bruno Guimaraes found a free header from a Lewis Hall corner to equalize in what was, unsurprisingly, a Entertaining start.
Bruno Guimaraes with the captain’s equalizer for Newcastle 🔥
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Newcastle appeared to have the momentum, but were surprised once again when Semenyo again released Kluivert, who once again got past Martin Dubravka and restored Bournemouth’s lead.
Justin Kluivert gets his second of the match 💫
Bournemouth leads just before half-time 🔥
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Bournemouth outclass Newcastle
The frenetic nature of the match continued into the second half, although it was Bournemouth who remained the biggest threat in front of goal as the Toon struggled to find the advantage they previously had.
Bournemouth thought they had earned a 3-1 lead through Dango Ouattara, but after a VAR review this was rightly disallowed after the ball went out of play in the build-up.
Newcastle had another lucky escape when David Brooks’ touch from Semenyo’s cross deflected off Tino Livramento and bounced off the post.
A tense conclusion followed before Bouremouth could begin to celebrate the victory they deserved when Kluivert brilliantly completed his hat-trick with a long-range strike that left Dubravka on the ground.
What a way to win the treble 🤩
Justin Kluivert caps off an outstanding performance in style 💫
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Anthony Gordon was denied the chance of a late comeback when his effort was blocked on the line.
But it really proved to be Bournemouth’s day when Kerkez raced all the way to the other end before launching a jumper and clinically finding the net.
Bournemouth make it 4-0 🔥
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