Source: Northern_Echo
Bolton Wanderers 5 Newcastle United 1
Bolton Wanderers 5 Newcastle United 1.[LNB] IT was the same scoreline, just a completely different outcome. Three weeks after defeating Sunderland in style, Newcastle United were given a reminder of just how damaging life in the Premier League can be.[LNB] Keeping things in context is important before outlining the failings, with the Magpies still sitting mid-table in the top-flight in their first season back among the elite. [LNB] There have been encouraging performances, outstanding victories but there have also been, quite simply, absolutely dreadful results. It is safe to say that Saturday's visit to the Reebok Stadium rests in the latter. [LNB] As results go this season, Newcastle are unlikely to suffer more embarrassment in one afternoon's football this season than that which they were subjected to at Bolton.[LNB] For all Newcastle fans will remember the way their team battered Sunderland in to submission on Halloween, they can now reflect on the way Bolton managed to inflict similar misery on themselves less than a month later.[LNB] There might not have been local pride at stake, but that will count for little to the thousands of supporters that made the trip across the Pennines. Newcastle, admittedly without Joey Barton and Cheik Tiote and fielding a team which effectively won the Championship, were abysmal. Bolton, the butt of many football supporter's jokes for their style of play in previous years, were incredible under Owen Coyle.[LNB] Newcastle manager Chris Hughton, as stunned as everyone else, will be using the 5-1 thrashing as a tool to gain a positive reaction. He said: We have Chelsea next and that sums up the reality of this division. [LNB] I am sure no one will need motivating. We have got to make sure we put some of the wrongs of this right in the next game. We beat Sunderland 5-1 a couple of weeks ago but that is this division for you. [LNB] What you want is a level of consistency. We are what we are. We are capable with what we have in the team of scoring goals. The teams who become the most consistent will be in the top six or seven. We have said from day one how tough it will be to repeat - from day one.[LNB] While Newcastle have suffered frustration at St James' Park this season when they have lost to Blackpool, Stoke and Blackburn, they have never been outclassed in such a manner as they were here.[LNB] It always looked on the cards once Kevin Nolan had started his first return to the ground he left behind after ten years in January last year in the worst possible fashion.[LNB] With just 51 seconds on the clock, Nolan dispossessed full-back Paul Robinson and was allowed to run in to the Bolton box unchallenged. Instead of testing goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen he powered his shot high over the bar.[LNB] If that pleased his former fans, they had even greater smiles quarter of an hour later. After Jose Enrique's failure to clear, Nolan tried to clear his lines by attempting to lift the ball over South Korean Chung-Yong Lee except it was with his arm.[LNB] After referee Howard Webb had pointed to the spot for the first time in the afternoon, Kevin Davies struck low and goalkeeper Tim Krul dived the wrong way to concede the first goal.[LNB] Bolton might have sat fifth and lost just one of their previous nine matches, but few could have envisaged what was to follow: A complete collapse by a Newcastle team that performed like relegation contenders.[LNB] Either of Mike Williamson or Shola Ameobi could have been red carded for clashes with Johan Elmander and Gary Cahill, but Bolton didn't need the official's help.[LNB] Once Nolan, who failed to convert a Jose Enrique centre that dropped to him six yards out, and Andy Carroll had wasted good chances, Bolton took complete control.[LNB] After Matt Taylor's free-kick, awarded when Williamson had rashly pulled down Elmander, had rocked the crossbar, Newcastle should have cleared. Instead Fabricio Coloccini and Danny Simpson got in a muddle, Elmander found the lively Lee, who took a touch before curling left-footed into Krul's bottom right.[LNB] Six minutes after the restart Lee's well struck pass was knocked behind the Newcastle defence by Davies and Elmander, a threat throughout, rounded Krul to add a third.[LNB] When Newcastle responded with a tidy Carroll finish less than two minutes later there was a glimmer of hope for a comeback. That, though, was to remain the only shot that Hughton's men recorded on target.[LNB] Bolton had no such problem, regularly ripping apart a defence that had witnessed Coloccini slip back in to the bad habits of his first season in the Premier League; a far cry from the way he has started his second.[LNB] Elmander, Stuart Holden and Lee all had chances before the fourth arrived 17 minutes from time. Coloccini allowed a long ball forward to drop over his head, Elmander brushed him aside before slotting low beyond Krul.[LNB] In an almost identical position on the other flank, Coloccini decided to change tactic moments later by striking the Swede with an elbow which rightly earned a red card.[LNB] And, once Carroll had struck the upright at the other end, there was still time for the flapping Enrique to bring down Davies in injury-time inside the box. Davies picked himself up and found the same corner as he did in the first half from the spot, despite Krul's decision to dive left this time.[LNB] Hughton's pride and confidence might have been dented, but he is satisfied such outcomes will not become the norm.[LNB] We said there will be ups and downs. Did we think we'd be a top eight team No we didn't, he said. So along with that comes the ups and downs. Part of that means we have to pick ourselves up from a very bad day at the office. [LNB] You are disappointed about every goal you concede. But there is no escaping we conceded very poor goals.[LNB] If you do that against anyone it will be tough. If you do it against a team in good form like Bolton then you are going to be in trouble. It is disappointing we have conceded the type of goals we did but that is the division - you can't get away with it. [LNB] It was the worst scoreline recorded by a Newcastle team since the 5-1 drubbing at St James' Park at the hands of Liverpool in December 2008 and it could have been far more.[LNB] Match facts Goals:[LNB] 1-0: Davies pen (18mins, side-footed spot kick to the right as Krul dived the other way);[LNB] 2-0: Lee (39, slotted coolly to Krul's right after some awful defending from Simpson and Coloccini);[LNB] 3-0: Elmander (50, rounded Krul after neat pass from Davies opened up the Newcastle defence)[LNB] 3-1: Carroll (52, slotted in to Jaaskelainen's left after being fed through)[LNB] 4-1: Elmander (72, outmuscled Coloccini before applying a neat finish beyond Krul)[LNB] 5-1: Davies pen (90, found the same corner with another low penalty)[LNB] Bookings: Lee (44, foul); Nolan (61, foul); Enrique (90, foul)[LNB] Sending-off: Coloccini (75, violent conduct)[LNB] Referee: Howard Webb (Rotherham) - could have also sent off Williamson and Ameobi, but Bolton didn't need him to 6[LNB] Attendance: 22,203[LNB] Entertainment: [LNB] BOLTON WANDERERS (4-4-2):[LNB] Jaaskelainen 6; Ricketts 7, Cahill 8, Knight 7, Robinson 6; Lee 8 (Rodrigo 86), Muamba 7, Holden 8, Taylor 8 (Petrov 77); ELMANDER 9 (Klasnick 80), Davies 9. Subs: Bogdan (gk), Steinsson, M Davies, Blake.[LNB] NEWCASTLE UNITED (4-4-2):[LNB] 5 Krul: Beaten enough times but was hardly the main culprit on an afternoon to forget;[LNB] 3 Simpson: Failed to deal with Taylor and was culpable for laying on Bolton's second goal[LNB] 4 Williamson: Cleared a few things, but was still guilty of rash challenges in stupid areas[LNB] 2 Coloccini: Played his own sorry part in Bolton's crucial second and was woefully poor throughout[LNB] 3 Enrique: Apparently Spurs are planning an £8m swoop. On the evidence of this, he would struggle to be valued at 8p;[LNB] 4 Guthrie: Is yet to hit the heights he reached in the Championship and looked off the pace again[LNB] 3 Nolan: Wasted an early chance to score the opener and stupidly handled to concede the penalty[LNB] 4 Smith: It certainly wasn't his fault, but a heavy defeat on his return is hardly the way to stay in the team[LNB] 4 Gutierrez: Posed little threat going forward and contributed little at the back;[LNB] 4 Ameobi: Could argue he assisted Carroll's goal, but even then it could be debated he was tackled first[LNB] 6 CARROLL: Won a few headers and took his goal well to keep in Capello's mind[LNB] Subs:[LNB] Routledge (for Guthrie 71) Lovenkrands (for Ameobi 73) Campbell (for Gutierrez 76) (not used): Taylor, Perch, Ranger, Soderberg (gk).[LNB] MAN OF THE MATCH[LNB] JOHAN Elmander humiliated Coloccini and Co for the whole time he was on the pitch and is a free agent next summer ... Mike Ashley take note.[LNB]
