Its funny how newspaper columnists or webmasters like to play ard with footballer's names to make attention capturing headlines. It used to be "Shear class!" all the time when they wana report abt Alan Shearer and now it's Martin's turn, lol. Yup yup, my beloved Newcastle won a match against the odds! Singapore Pools gave Newcastle the odds of 4.4 to win, and they did! Muahaha!
Newcastle has been underperforming this season, hovering at 15th spot coming into this match against Spurs. Injury-wrecked, Newcastle had to rely on the likes of Taylor, Ramage, Huntington and Pattison, all graduates of Newcastle's academy, barely 20, to help ease the team through an injury plagued season.
Both teams played average initially. Spurs only started playing good football when they're in the lead, courtesy of Defoe but it was cancelled out very quickly by Huntington's first senior goal for the club and Tottenham were back to their average, kinda messy football. Newcastle started to get a foothold in the game, only to finish the first half 1-1.
In the 2nd half, Newcastle fell asleep as usual, and were struggling to stop Tottenham's attacks as they chase for a lead, with Solano blocking a few goal-bound shots and Given pulling off good saves as he usually do. However, Spurs took the lead again through Berbatov when Solano blocked a shot and the ball fell nicely in front of him in the box.
Newcastle displayed great character and determination and their efforts paid off when Martins scored a scorcher from 20yards out into roof of the net in the 72nd minute with Paul Robinson rendered hopeless. It left Spurs stunned and before they could recover from the shock, Martins passed an inviting throughball to Nicky Butt running into the box who scored a Owen-type goal, slotting the ball to the far post from the righthand side. Newcastle finally won Lady Luck's heart when Defoe's shot clipped Given's righthand post. Newcastle fully deserved the win for their efforts.
Gotta learn to dig in and work hard eh, hahaha. Grind my good results out if I have to!
