Sam Allardyce: "Of course it's our captain, who is our leading goalscorer, who has got us the three points.
"His instincts in the box are there for all to see.
"It's five goals he has got in 11 games now in the Premier League - it should be six because he had one chalked off this week (against Manchester City) that he shouldn't have done - and for a midfield player to be totalling up that sort of goal tally is fantastic from our point of view.
"That being the winner today is obviously satisfying for us all.
"It's a fantastic start to the season for us now, 11 games, 18 points.
"Anybody who looks at what we have done, we had some reasonably good fixtures at the start of the season - every game is difficult in the Premier League, but they were more winnable than some of the fixtures we have perhaps got now.
"But in saying that, in our last three games, we lost to Wigan away, which I didn't expect, we drew with Manchester City and now we have beaten Newcastle.
"The big boys are coming up and we are still getting points, and that's the pleasing thing for me because confidence grows and grows and grows, as you could see today.
"It was a very professional performance by the players and nobody was overawed coming here."
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