If Newcastle’s rivals for a Champions League place had hoped Eddie Howe’s players might be partied out after ending a 70-year domestic trophy drought they were destined for disappointment.
Admittedly Howe’s team were not at their best but, thanks to the most audacious of impossibly angled winners from Sandro Tonali, Newcastle ultimately found a way to defuse Brentford’s clever, and near constant, threat.
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