Mallorca 0 - Newcastle 3
Mallorca: Miki; Ramis
(Eto'o 52'), Lussenhoff, Poli; Finidi, Nagore, Marcos (Campano 39'), Toni
González (Fernando Niño 46'); Bruggink, Jesús Perera,
Nené. 3-4-3. Newcastle: Given; Bernard, Bramble, Woodgate,
O'Brien (Taylor 81'); Robert (Viana 65'), Jenas, Speed (Bellamy 77'), Ambrose;
Shearer, Ameobi. 4-4-2.
Goals: 0-1. 46. Shearer.
Picked up bad clearance by Miki and fired ball back into net. 0-2. 78.
Bellamy. Ran on to clip ball over advancing keeper from left of goal. 0-3.
89. Shearer. Collected Bernard's square pass and ran ball into net.
Mallorca were dumped
unceremoniously out of the competition by a Newcastle side who scored seven
goals against them over the two legs. Three behind from the first leg, and with
a difficult league match at Murcia to come, Luis Aragonés gave a run out
to some of his lesser used players. And the reserves held on well until half
time, with Bruggink testing Given early on. But keeper Miki gifted a goal to
Alan Shearer only a minute after the restart, and Mallorca then needed to score
four even to force the game into extra time.
Aragonés had already
used up two substitutions due to injuries to Marcos and Toni González,
but he decided to bring on Eto'o to at least give it a try. But Bobby Robson
introduced Bellamy with a quarter of an hour to go, and almost immediately he
scored his team's second. A minute from the end Shearer made it three, sending
the 3,000 or so Newcastle fans (almost half the crowd) home happy.
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