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Newcastle vs Fulham

Premier League · Round 3 · Sun 28 Aug 2011, 13:00

Newcastle
21 Full time
Fulham

Newcastle beat Fulham 2–1 on 28 August 2011 (Premier League 2011-2012, Round 3). Goals – Newcastle: Leon Best 48', 66'; Fulham: Clint Dempsey 88'. In 36 Premier League meetings since 2000-01, Newcastle have won 16, Fulham 15 and 5 matches have been drawn.

Summary

Key events

  1. Half time · 0–0
  2. 48' Leon Best Newcastle 1–0
  3. 66' Leon Best Newcastle · assist Demba Ba 2–0
  4. 88' Clint Dempsey Fulham · assist Danny Murphy 2–1
  5. Full time · 2–1

Lineups

Newcastle

  1. 26 Tim Krul
  2. 20 Leon Best
  3. 4 Yohan Cabaye
  4. 2 Fabricio Coloccini
  5. 18 Jonas Gutierrez
  6. 11 Peter Lovenkrands
  7. 25 Gabriel Obertan
  8. 5 Danny Simpson
  9. 16 Ryan Taylor
  10. 27 Steven Taylor
  11. 24 Cheik Tiote

Substitutes used

Unused

Sammy Ameobi, Shane Ferguson, Sylvain Marveaux, Ole Soderberg

Fulham

  1. 1 Mark Schwarzer
  2. 6 Chris Baird
  3. 28 Matthew Briggs
  4. 30 Mousa Dembele
  5. 23 Clint Dempsey
  6. 16 Damien Duff
  7. 5 Brede Hangeland
  8. 18 Aaron Hughes
  9. 10 Pajtim Kasami
  10. 13 Danny Murphy
  11. 4 Steve Sidwell

Substitutes used

Unused

Neil Etheridge, Dickson Etuhu, Kerim Frei, Marcel Gecov, Stephen Kelly, Philippe Senderos

Head-to-head & form

Head-to-head since 2000-01

Full head-to-head
16Newcastle wins5Draws15Fulham wins

36 meetings · goals Newcastle 49–43 Fulham

Previous meetings

2 Feb 2011 Fulham1–0FT · 20:00Newcastle
13 Nov 2010 Newcastle0–0FT · 15:00Fulham
16 May 2009 Newcastle0–1FT · 15:00Fulham
9 Nov 2008 Fulham2–1FT · 16:00Newcastle
22 Mar 2008 Newcastle2–0FT · 15:00Fulham

Form before the match

Last five Premier League matches, oldest to newest.

Final table 2011-2012

Full table
# Team P W D L GD Pts
5 Newcastle 38 19 8 11 +5 65
9 Fulham 38 14 10 14 −3 52

Top scorers 2011-2012

All scorers

Newcastle

  1. Demba Ba 16
  2. Papiss Cisse 13
  3. Hatem Ben Arfa 5

Fulham

  1. Clint Dempsey 17
  2. Pavel Pogrebnyak 6
  3. Andy Johnson 3