Urawa Red Diamonds 1-4 Newcastle United

Newcastle United beat Urawa Red Diamonds 4–1 at the Saitama Stadium.

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00:00Well, good evening or should I say good morning from Tokyo. It's half 12 local time here.

00:08I've just arrived back at my hotel after Newcastle United's 4-1 win over Aurora Red Diamonds.

00:19A relatively comfortable win for Newcastle United in the end. First half was difficult

00:28for Newcastle. I thought the home side probably edged the first half, although they went

00:36in 2-1 behind. Newcastle took the lead through Alexander Isak. The home side then equalised.

00:44They had a penalty, which wasn't a penalty. It was a clumsy tackle by a team, but it was

00:50outside the box. The referee was pointing the spot and Nick Pope was the hero if you

00:56like. Then against a run of play, Newcastle took the lead on the break of half time. Jacob

01:02Murphy with a cool, calm finish after being played in by Joe Willock. Then after the break,

01:13Newcastle really cruised to victory. They took the 3-1 lead quite early on. Jacob Murphy

01:19a man on fire. He got his second of the game and his fourth in three pre-season games.

01:30Then Lewis Hall added a fourth. From then on, we've seen changes. A lot of young lads

01:35came on. Miguel Armand came on at half time. I would say it was a productive afternoon

01:43because it was really hot and humid here in Newcastle. Although probably took them the

01:46first half, they did deal with the conditions well in the end. A special mention, Nick Pope

01:51was outstanding at the end of the day. The last two games showed why Newcastle really

01:55missed him. Joe Willock looked sharp, which is a real positive because of his injury problems.

01:59He was really, really good tonight. Jacob Murphy, a man on fire as I mentioned. He can't

02:06stop scoring at this moment in time. Of course, it was pre-season, but if you look at pre-season

02:11at all, he's one of the informed men. No Bruno Gamerais involved tonight. He's expected

02:16to play in the game against Yugoslavia at the weekend.