Pick it out! £9million signing Papiss Cisse fires home
Newcastle's winner against Aston Villa
Dream pairing: Demba Ba (right) and Demba Cisse
celebrate as the two strikers fire Newcastle to victory
Newcastle: Krul, Simpson, Williamson,
Coloccini, Santon, Ryan Taylor (Obertan 33), Guthrie, Perch,
Gutierrez, Ba (Shola Ameobi 90),Best (Cisse 14).
Subs Not Used:
Elliot, Ben Arfa, Gosling, Ferguson.
Booked:
Simpson.
Goals: Ba 30,Cisse
71.
Aston Villa:
Given, Hutton, Cuellar, Dunne, Warnock, Ireland (Bannan 46),
Petrov, Clark (Gardner 84), N'Zogbia (Heskey 66), Keane,
Bent.
Subs Not Used:
Guzan, Weimann, Lichaj, Baker.
Booked: Dunne,
Bent.
Goal: Keane
45.
Att:
48,569
Ref: Mark Halsey
(Lancashire).
They came to worship and pay homage to their new
No 9 and Papiss Cisse delivered the goal and performance which
lifted Newcastle United back into fifth and Champions League
contention.
The £9million signing from Freiburg has been in this
country for four days, but thanks to Senegal’s misadventures in
Africa and Leon Best’s knee injury early in the game, his Barclays
Premier League arrival came sooner than he or manager Alan Pardew
had expected.
Cisse, 26, signalled his arrival with a sweetly struck
half-volley into the top corner.
Cisse’s Senegal team-mate Demba Ba marked his return from
Africa with his 16th goal in 16 appearances, to put Newcastle in
front.
Ba’s goal came after Villa failed to clear a cross into
the area from the excellent Danny Guthrie, although Stephen
Warnock’s desperate challenge wiped out Ryan Taylor, who
touched the ball to Ba and suffered a nasty foot injury in the
process.
Pardew said X-rays showed severe bruising and not a
break.
Pardew, who heads to White Hart Lane in good heart said.
‘We can go to Tottenham and let our hair down. We will have a go
and if we get beat, we get beat.’