Newcastle take all 3 points with win over palace, Newcastle United started the new year in style with a comfortable victory over Crystal Palace, with Bruno Guimaraes playing a starring role along with stand out performance from Lewis Miley. Newcastle had most of the possession and couldn’t capitalise in the first half. Palace showed signs of danger but Newcastles defence stood strong.
The hosts had to be patient, however, with Anthony Gordon and Joelinton both seeing first-half goals ruled out for offside.
Gordon tapped into an open net 19 minutes in off Yoane Wissa’s unselfish centre, though the goal was disallowed following a VAR review, while Joelinton had strayed offside before cushioning Fabian Schar’s deep pass and drilling past Dean Henderson minutes before the break.
The Magpies’ breakthrough finally arrived in the 71st minute, when Guimaraes reacted quickest to nod home from close range off Lewis Miley’s return pass after Palace failed to fully clear their lines.
Newcastle doubled their advantage seven minutes later as Guimaraes’ corner caused some heavy chaos inside the box, opening the door for Malick Thiaw to slide the ball past Henderson amid a scramble.
Howe could not have asked for a better start to the New Year, with Newcastle now unbeaten in their last seven home Premier League matches (W5 D2), scoring exactly two goals in each game during that run.
The Magpies were full value for Sunday’s win, generating 1.88 expected goals (xG) to Crystal Palace’s modest 0.70 xG.
Palace, meanwhile, are winless in their last seven matches across all competitions (D3 L4) – their longest such run since a stretch of eight games between November and December 2023.
They also failed to register a single shot on target in the first half, marking the third time they have done so away from home since the start of last season (also against Leicester City in January 2025 and Arsenal in October 2025).
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