Man City looked defensively ragged more than once, and that is probably the best indication of how far Newcastle have come under Eddie Howe.
It was all a long way from the days of Gordon McKeag and Peter Swales, as The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia met on this sunny summer afternoon on Tyneside. The days of these two clubs as the serial under-achievers are long-gone. One is nearing the complete dominance of the European game demanded by its owners. The other is just starting out on the same journey.
Manchester City’s team oozes class from every pore, and it took just five minutes for Ilkay Gundogan to slip between two half-sleeping defenders to score a goal which undermined the many good things that had been said about the Newcastle defence over the course of the previous couple of matches. There is something fundamentally strange about watching a team of the quality of Manchester City being shown a thing or two by well-drilled and creative opposition. You can see that the quality hasn’t just disappeared. Phil Foden has not temporarily forgotten how to play football. Kevin De Bruyne’s peripheral vision is as supernatural as ever. But as Newcastle swarmed forward, their defence did play as though they were out of practice on how to deal with being got at.
And there was even something for those of you missing high-profile refereeing shenanigans after last weekend’s high jinks at Stamford Bridge, when Kieran Trippier felled De Bruyne. The referee initially gave it as a red card, only for the video assistant to intervene and for the decision to be rescinded upon review.
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