THE “Geordie Maradona” upstaged over £125million of latest expertise to indicate Eddie Howe that he’s able to shine for Newcastle subsequent season.
Elliot Anderson, 20, recovered from a stunning early miss to pull Toon again from 2-0 all the way down to 2-2 in opposition to Aston Villa in a reminder to the Magpies boss that he’s greater than adequate to play a starring function within the Tyneside revolution.
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Emi Buendia was the standout for Villa in Philadelphia, bagging an help and two targets in an entertaining 3-3 draw.
Anderson, shortly rising because the star of Newcastle’s pre-season, solely performed 45 minutes however scored one and created one other.
Regardless of costly signings on either side like Pau Torres, Sandro Tonali and Harvey Barnes – who performed 20 minutes simply hours after finishing his £38million transfer from Leicester – on present, it was the Newcastle academy midfielder who stood out.
It was a nightmare begin as he fully missed the ball with the purpose gaping after Ollie Watkins’ opener following Buendia’s help.
The Argentinean continued his blistering begin by firing in on the close to put up off his left peg to place Villa 2-0 up inside 11 minutes.
Newcastle have caught religiously to 4-3-3 beneath Howe however the Toon supervisor trialled 3-4-2-1 right here – and so they had been all at sea early on, lower to shreds at will by the rampant Brummies.
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But with 28 minutes gone it was 2-1 because of Anderson, making amends for his early howler by latching onto Jacob Murphy’s floated by ball, chopping inside Ezri Konsa’s despairing dive and coolly slotting previous Emi Martinez.
And Newcastle drew stage on the verge of half-time by way of Alexander Isak, but it surely was all the way down to the sensible work of that man Anderson once more.
First he robbed Boubacar Kamara in midfield earlier than driving previous Matty Money into the field.
Anderson, who began two Prem video games final 12 months having spent the season earlier than on mortgage at Bristol Rovers, then had Konsa on toast once more with Maritinez parrying his effort earlier than Isak fired residence.
Buendia’s tap-in made it 3-2 quickly after the break earlier than sub Callum Wilson levelled up once more with a easy end into an empty web.
Villa new boy Moussa Diaby was at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Monetary Discipline however was not included within the squad, with fellow latest arrivals Youri Tielemans and Pau Torres subs.
