Everton 1-4 Newcastle
by James Nalton
at Bramley-Moore Dock

A POOR Everton showing on Saturday afternoon gave Newcastle United the chance to turn around their away form, and it’s one they duly took, claiming their first win on the road this season.

Newcastle didn’t need to do much to take control of the game, and were on top from the moment Anthony Elanga’s shot was tipped around the post by Jordan Pickford with just 20 seconds played.

The first goal came from the subsequent corner, with just 55 seconds on the clock, when Malick Thiaw headed in Lewis Miley’s cross. 

Miley then scored himself after a wayward Tino Livramento shot was kept in play by Dan Burn and fell to him on the edge of the area. The resulting effort wasn’t too threatening, but Pickford parried it through his own legs; a rare error from the Everton and England keeper.

Newcastle fans taunted Pickford, the former Sunderland man, and Nick Woltemade rubbed salt into the wounds with an audacious chip over the goalkeeper as he came out to close the angle.

Thiaw scored another header, getting on the end of a brilliant cross from Lewis Hall, and the game was over with an hour played.

Even when it looked like there might be something for Everton to cheer, as Thierno Barry scored his first goal for the club having struggled in front of goal since arriving in the summer, it was ruled out for handball.

It was Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall who eventually scored a consolation goal for Everton, showing a superb first touch to control a long ball from James Tarkowski, and spoiling Aaron Ramsdale’s clean sheet on his first Premier League start for Newcastle.

There were barely any home fans left in the stadium to boo Newcastle’s former Everton player, Anthony Gordon, when he came on for Woltemade in the 90th minute.

The win took Newcastle to 18 points, level with Everton, and at the end of play on Saturday, also level with Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester United. Five big names in English football confined to mid-table mediocrity at this point in the 2025/26 season.

On this showing, Newcastle looked much more likely than Everton to break free from this group.