Following United's FA Youth Cup win against Swansea five days earlier, Dave Watson made a handful of changes to his side.

But the Rams ran riot in the first half, with Jahvan Davidson-Miller, Micah Edwards, Cameron Cresswell and Jayden Mitchell-Lawson all on target.

Davidson-Miller opened the scoring in the 13th minute, then doubled their advantage less than a minute later as United failed to clear their lines allowing Edwards to strike beyond Ben Smith.

On 21 minutes, the score was 3-0 as Jayden Bogle's left-wing cross was met by Cresswell then six minutes later, Mitchell-Lawson ran through to slot the ball into the bottom left corner of the net.

Newcastle were much-improved after the break, though, and pulled one back through Kelland Watts.

Newcastle United Under-18s: Ben Smith, Craig Spooner, Kieran Aplin (Yannick Aziakonou 67), Matthew Longstaff, Ben Kitchen (Isaac Gamblin 67), Gideon Adu-Peprah, Dan Lowther, Kelland Watts, Lewis McNall, Thomas Allan, Mo Sangare (Jack Robson 67)

Sub not used: Otto Huuhtanen