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00:00 So what a result and what a performance from Newcastle United this afternoon.

00:05 They beat Chelsea 4-1 at St James' Park and given the current absentee list,

00:11 you can't underestimate how big a result that was for Newcastle.

00:15 Just going back to the start of the game, that absentee list actually stretched to 13 players.

00:22 The latest, Mair Jablo being Joe Willock, he picked up an Achilles injury in training

00:29 on Friday and is going to see a specialist for advice.

00:33 So it doesn't sound like that is a short-term fix.

00:36 So with that came the bench and there was three goalkeepers named on the bench

00:42 and four under-21s players and Thijser, Matt Ritchie and Paul Dummond.

00:48 So the fear was in that game is that if Newcastle had to turn on that bench,

00:51 they didn't have any options.

00:54 But they didn't really need to do that because they got the game wrapped up in 60 minutes really.

01:01 Alex Andreesen opened the scoring on 30 minutes and Raheem Sterling equalised with a free kick

01:08 to have the scores level at half-time.

01:10 But after the break, the second half, it felt easy for Newcastle against the side that

01:16 a lot of the media outlets, national media, Chelsea, our team that are back,

01:22 well they weren't back today, they actually went missing in that second half.

01:26 Goals from Anthony Gordon, Jamal Assel, Joe Linton, not in that order.

01:33 But they all got on the score sheet and helped Newcastle record a,

01:38 I say in many ways, a quite comfortable victory.

01:42 Got to get a special mention to Lewis Miley today, 17-year-old,

01:47 making his Premier League debut at St James' Park,

01:50 his second Premier League start, outstanding.

01:53 If you're watching the match a day back tonight, check out that assist.

01:56 If you weren't in the stadium, check out that assist for Isak's goal because it was quite incredible.

02:01 This whole stadium was urging Lewis Miley to shoot and I suppose on your Premier League debut

02:05 you would probably be forgiven for doing so but he slicked a lovely ball through to

02:08 Alexandre Isak who scored and obviously got the afternoon up and running.

02:12 So a big performance from Newcastle.

02:15 I don't think it would have taken too much out of them ahead of Tuesday against PSG

02:18 PSG so hopefully they'll be fit and firing then.