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Heaton Stannington 1 Newcastle XI 8
Written by Newcastle Utd
A young Newcastle United XI eased to a comfortable 8-1 friendly victory at Heaton Stannington on Wednesday
By Anthony Marshall - Newcastle United Managing Editor
Heaton Stannington 1 (Deagle)
Newcastle United XI 8 (Heardman, Olley, Roberts 2, Gibson, Longstaff, Cameron, Quinn)
A young Newcastle United XI eased to a comfortable 8-1 friendly victory at local side Heaton Stannington on Wednesday night.
Callum Roberts found the back of the net twice for the Magpies, while there were also goals for Tom Heardman, Greg Olley, Liam Gibson, Sean Longstaff, Kyle Cameron and Jonathyn Quinn at Grounsell Park.
United made a strong start against their Northern League Second Division opponents and broke the deadlock on ten minutes from the penalty spot.
Macaulay Gillesphey's strong run into the area was brought to a crashing halt by Alistair Stoddart, and after a quick game of rock, paper, scissors between Heardman and Quinn, the former won the right to take the resulting spot kick, which he calmly slotted home.
Four minutes later Olley doubled the visitors' advantage, pulling the trigger from 20 yards and seeing his shot fly into the top corner.
At the other end, Paul Woolston made a fine, sprawling stop to turn a header around the post, but it was soon business as normal as Newcastle grabbed their third of the night through Roberts.
The goal owed much to the tenacity of Gibson who, having robbed a Stannington defender, drove into the area and supplied a cut-back for Roberts to tap home.
On 32 minutes, it was four. Again, Roberts was the scorer but this time it was a much tougher ask, although he made it look simple, cutting in off the right to send a low strike from the edge of the area past home keeper Shaun Backhouse.
Goal number five arrived immediately - Gibson racing into an advanced position from his normal full-back berth, receiving Olley's inch-perfect through ball, holding off his marker and finishing well.
Five minutes before the break the hosts bagged one of their own, and arguably it was the goal of the night.
Dean Deagle had already gone close with one free-kick but this time he made no mistake, whipping a fierce shot over the wall and past the despairing dive of Woolston, who had no chance.
Peter Beardsley made four substitutions at half-time and it was one of those - Sean Longstaff - who scored United's sixth goal of the evening. Played in by James Atkinson, the Academy youngster ran through one-on-one before beating the keeper.
Cameron was the next name on the scoresheet in the 82nd minute, brilliantly volleying Adam Laidler's left-wing delivery in off the underside of the crossbar, and Quinn completed the scoring with time running out from a well-worked short corner routine.
The forward took the flag kick, playing an inventive one-two which split the Stannington defence and he slotted home from a tight angle to seal a good night's work.
Newcastle United XI: Paul Woolston (Carl Robinson 70); Kevin Mbabu (Jamie Sterry 46), Ryan McKinnon, Macaulay Gillesphey, Liam Gibson (Kyle Cameron 46); James Atkinson, Greg Olley; Callum Roberts (Adam Laidler 46), Jonathyn Quinn, Dan Ward (Dan Barlaser 71); Tom Heardman (Sean Longstaff 46)