Huddersfield 1-0 Newcastle: Aaron Mooy strike gives Terriers victory(Watch Highlight Match Video)
Aaron Mooy's gave second-half
effort gave Huddersfield a 1-0 win over Newcastle in their first Premier
League home game of the season on Super Sunday.
Mooy scored the winner on 50 minutes, superbly guiding the
ball into the far corner from just inside the area after a neat one-two.Matt Ritchie had gone close for Newcastle in the first half, but the visitors failed to create many clear-cut chances throughout at the John Smith's Stadium.
Player ratings
Huddersfield: Lossl
(7), Smith (7), Billing (7), Kachunga (7), Mooy (8), Lowe (8), Van La
Parra (7), Ince (7), Mounie (7), Zanka (6), Schindler (7)
Subs: Palmer (6), Quaner (6), Hefele (NA)
Newcastle: Elliot (6), Clark (6), Lascelles (6), Gayle (5), Ritchie (6), Hayden (6), Perez (5), Mbemba (6), Manquillo (6), Merino (7), Atsu (6)
Subs: Murphy (6), Diame (6), Joselu (6)
Man of the match: Aaron Mooy
Subs: Palmer (6), Quaner (6), Hefele (NA)
Newcastle: Elliot (6), Clark (6), Lascelles (6), Gayle (5), Ritchie (6), Hayden (6), Perez (5), Mbemba (6), Manquillo (6), Merino (7), Atsu (6)
Subs: Murphy (6), Diame (6), Joselu (6)
Man of the match: Aaron Mooy
But Huddersfield came out fastest after the break, and were ahead five minutes into the half through Australian Mooy, who joined the club permanently in the summer from Manchester City.
Team news
New
signing Joselu was named on the bench, while Lejeune, Dummett and the
suspended Shelvey were replaced by Merino, Lascelles and Perez. For
Huddersfield, Van La Parra replaced Palmer.
Ayoze Perez had a chance to level with 20 minutes remaining, but the Spaniard miscued from six yards after a corner had fortunately fell into his path on the volley.
Huddersfield held on despite some late pressure from the visitors, who are yet to score in the Premier League this term.
The stats
- Excluding the debut season of the Premier League in 1992/93, Huddersfield are the first team to win their opening two games in the competition.
- Newcastle, meanwhile, have lost their first two games of a Premier League campaign for the first time since 1999/00.
- The Terriers are the second newly-promoted team to keep a clean sheet in their first two Premier League games following promotion (after Charlton in 1997/98).
- Newcastle have now lost each of their last four Premier League games against newly-promoted opposition (Watford, Bournemouth and Norwich in 2015/16).
The pundit
Graeme Souness: How do you stop a goal like that? Quite easily! Mikel Merino, when he comes out to confront Mooy, his sole intention is to not receive any physical contact from Mooy, or indeed not to get hit with the ball. It's a joke! You're defending 20 yards from your goal, take a blow for the cause.You can't win games of football when you've got people making those decisions so close to your goal. It's weak, it's like something you'd see in kids' football. You've got to stand back and admire the goal, but from the other side of the coin, you've got to speak to him. Take a blow for the cause!
Man of the match - Aaron Mooy
Who else? In a match lacking in quality in the final third, the Australian's piece of class handed Huddersfield a win to remember.The finish was sublime, after a nifty one-two on the edge of the box, opening his body up to guide it beyond Rob Elliot.
Besides his goal, Mooy was the most impressive player on the pitch for the first half, and had more passes in the opposition half (37) than any other player on the pitch.
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