{"id":22146,"date":"2025-02-09T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T10:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22146"},"modified":"2025-02-09T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T10:51:34","slug":"fa-cup-newcastle-stunned-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22146","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup: Newcastle stunned Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/author\/agencyreport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agency Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Newcastle came from behind to win 3-2 against Birmingham\u00a0at St Andrew\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Birmingham led after 42 seconds through Ethan Laird\u2019s deflected strike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A quickfire double from Joe Willock and Callum Wilson turned the tie in Newcastle\u2019s favour, but Tomoki Iwata\u2019s blistering strike levelled before half-time for the League One leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Newcastle, though, rounded off a fine week after reaching the League Cup final on Wednesday as Willock restored their lead on 82 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bottom of the Premier League and seemingly destined for relegation, Southampton got no respite in the FA Cup as Burnley won 1-0 at St Mary\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Scott Parker\u2019s team went in front after 77 minutes when Marcus Edwards scored from close range on his debut after signing on loan from Sporting Lisbon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is almost 600 minutes since Championship promotion chasers Burnley last conceded a goal, with 10 clean sheets in their last 11 games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the last FA Cup tie at Goodison Park, Everton, who are moving to a new stadium next season, were beaten 2-0 by Bournemouth thanks to goals from Antoine Semenyo and Dan Jebbison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rodrigo Muniz scored twice as Fulham won 2-1 at League One Wigan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ipswich, second bottom of the Premier League, swept to a 4-1 win against Frank Lampard\u2019s Coventry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">George Hirst\u2019s second-minute penalty was quickly cancelled by Joel Latibeaudiere\u2019s eighth-minute equaliser for the second-tier hosts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But Jack Clarke restored Ipswich\u2019s lead in the 28th minute and struck again after 37 minutes before Jaden Philogene\u2019s 63rd-minute effort sealed the rout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Millwall reached the fifth round for the first time since 2018-19 thanks to Femi Azeez\u2019s double in a 2-0 win at Championship leaders\u00a0Leeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle came from behind to win 3-2 against Birmingham at St Andrew\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4218,4721,4251],"class_list":["post-22146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fa-cup","tag-newcastle","tag-southampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22148,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22146\/revisions\/22148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}