Eddie Howe a proud man on Saturday night.
Newcastle United deservedly taking home all three points from Stamford Bridge.
A brilliant performance from the United team as they won 1-0 against Chelsea.
Eddie Howe schooling Liam Rosenior with a quality game plan that his players carried out to perfection.
Liam Rosenior kept his ten first choice outfield players in the team from the side that got hammered by PSG in the Champions League.
Which makes the Eddie Howe achievement all the more impressive, as the Newcastle boss changed six of the ten outfield players who performed so well against Barcelona.
Eddie How ecstatic and now can’t wait for the upcoming matches against Barcelona and Sunderland in the week ahead: “We have two huge games to finish off this week, mouth-watering for us. We can go to Barcelona in good spirits after today.”
This was the first win for Newcastle United at Stamford Bridge in 14 years.
Eddie Howe: “I think our defensive mentality was key. We were really good off the ball today, in every respect. We rode our luck at times in the second half but with the amount of times we have been hurt this season, I thought we deserved it. It was an excellent goal and we were very much in the game. It was a great pass from Tino Livramento to slip in Joe Willock and very unselfish from Joe to pick out Anthony Gordon.”
The previous 14 games in all competitions, Newcastle hadn’t kept a single clean sheet.
Today the first time since the 3-0 Champions League victory over PSV on 21 January.
Eddie Howe reacting to that: “It is our first clean sheet in a long time. It has been a difficult spell for us. We have defended really well at times. We know it is in there, it is just about bringing it all together. When you make changes from the outside, there’s maybe more noise than there should be. I thought Nick Woltemade was excellent. Jacob Murphy was outstanding. When you have players with the experience of Joelinton and Dan Burn to bring on, it is huge.”
Chelsea 0 Newcastle United 1 – Saturday 14 March 2026 5.30pm
Match Stats
Goals:
Newcastle United:
Gordon 18
Chelsea:
Possession was Newcastle 33% Chelsea 67%
Total shots were Newcastle 7 Chelsea 22
Shots on target were Newcastle 5 Chelsea 3
Corners were Newcastle 1 Chelsea 8
Touches in the opposition box Newcastle 11 Chelsea 33
Newcastle team v Chelsea:
Ramsdale, Livramento, Thiaw, Botman, Hall, Willock (Burn 77), Ramsey, Gordon, Barnes, Jacob Murphy (Elanga 78), Woltemade (Joelinton 67)
Unused subs:
Pope, Ruddy, Trippier, Osula, Wissa, Alex Murphy