26 April 2025 4:11pm
4:08PM Mohammed Kudus scores three minutes after the restart.
That is the Ghanaian’s first goal for the club since December!
3:55PM Brighton 1 West Ham 0
Newcastle 1 Ipswich 0
Southampton 1 Fulham 0
Wolves 1 Leicester 0
All the home sides lead by a goal to nil at the break.
3:54PM Referee Michael Salisbury is having quite the day. He’s managed to upset both sets of supporters but has incensed Newcastle’s the most in the last few minutes. He somehow missed a pretty blatant penalty when Julio Enciso tugged back Jacob Murphy in the box.
This time VAR have intervened and Alexander Isak, who has had a really poor game by his standards, has converted it. Newcastle deserve their lead. They have had two efforts cleared off the line and Tonali has hit the crossbar too.
3:50PM Alexander Isak puts Newcastle ahead with a calmly struck penalty.
3:49PM Penalty at St James’ Park after a long VAR check!
3:46PM 29 – Leicester have conceded first in 29 of their 34 Premier League games this season – the most ever by a side in a single 38-game campaign in the competition. Uphill. pic.twitter.com/Vp2YKHsuxx
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 26, 2025
3:44PM Oh dear Ben Johnson. The Ipswich full back was booked for a ridiculous dive trying to con a penalty and has just been shown a red card for a second bookable offence, hauling Alexander Isak back after the Sweden international had dinked the ball past him with a lovely bit of skill.
It’s the first good thing Isak has done all afternoon and the striker has missed two excellent chances as well, the first a header from Harvey Barnes’s cross and the second almost immediately when he made a complete hash of a volley from Jacob Murphy’s pass.
3:39PM Ben Johnson has been sent off for Ipswich after picking up his second booking.
That is his first red card in professional football.
3:34PM Matheus Cunha puts Wolves ahead against Leicester with a right-footed effort.
That is his 15th Premier League goal of the season.
3:31PM Newcastle will feel very hard done by as Bruno Guimaraes has a goal ruled out for a foul. As far as I could tell he just stood his ground as goalkeeper Alex Palmer jumped into him, dropping the ball on to the Newcastle’s player back and into his own net.
Referee Michael Salisbury awarded the free kick and VAR did not see enough wrong with the decision to overturn it.
Newcastle are slowly cranking up the pressure on the visiting defence but they are not really creating clear cut chances.
