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Newcastle celebrated a third consecutive league victory after failing to win one of its first 10 games and climbed to 13th place with 12 points in 13 games.
Aaron Lennon (left) of Burnley and Ciaran Clark of Newcastle United play the ball in the English Premier League football game. (Martin Rickett / PA via AP)
LONDON: Newcastle United are sluggish from the relegation zone after Ben Mee's goal and Ciaran Clark's header in the first period helped them to 2-1 win at Burnley on Monday, Nov. 26.
Newcastle celebrated a third consecutive league victory after failing to win one of its first 10 games and climbed to 13th place with 12 points in 13 games.
The Magpies are four points ahead of the relegation zone and three points ahead of Burnley, 17th, who has extended his series of winless matches to six games.
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez congratulated his team after a strong performance.
"We had an idea of how to play, we knew that the centers would come from everywhere, we defended ourselves well, our effort and our attitude were excellent," said the Spaniard at Sky Sports.
"We suffered a little bit in the end but we could have scored a third goal, our defenders played well because the (Burnley) strikers are big and then they put another big guy in front."
The kickoff was delayed for half an hour when Evaluator Arbitrator, Eddie Wolstenholme, collapsed in the tunnel and was taken to the hospital. Once the match started, Newcastle dominated the opening period.
The Magpies took a fourth-minute lead after a 20-meter shot from Federico Fernandez took a heavy deflection of Mee and Clark, who then raised the score to 2-0 with a superb header in the 23rd minute then that he was meeting a beautiful center of Matt Ritchie's left. .
Sam Vokes scored a goal for Burnley shortly before the break with a 15-meter loop header. Newcastle goalkeeper Martin Dubravka was out of position after a long ball from Mee.
Ritchie was guilty of a staggering foul just after the break when he opened the scoring at two yards, beating Burnley goalie Joe Hart. Joselu also hit the post for Newcastle with a scathing low shot and then held on in the finals.
Vokes scored the first goals and said Burnley needed to get back into last season's home form.
"We have to make Turf Moor a fortress," he said.
"We always wonder how we did not get something, we started with two goals early in the game (cashed) and it was a difficult task afterwards.
"We are expecting a lot from us, we have had some positive points from the performance and we will take this into account this weekend." he added before their visit to Crystal Palace on Saturday.
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