outhampton hit Sunderland for eight, Chelsea edged out Crystal Palace and Newcastle’s win over Leicester was delayed by a big screen
And that’s your lot. A slightly extended Saturday clockwatch is done, and thanks for reading. Even if you didn’t read, thanks for clicking on it. It justifies our existence.
Full-time: Newcastle 1-0 Leicester
And that’s it. Newcastle survive a late onslaught from Leicester to hang on, and after the shambles at the start of the game with that errant section of flopping big screen, and Alan Pardew’s men have their first win of the season.
Change for Newcastle - Remy Cabella replaces Yoan Gouffran.
Another half-chance for Perez - he gets the ball in the area with his back to goal, but can’t quite get it out of his feet and turn, and the chance is gone. Three minutes of injury-time.
Eesh, Newcastle should have this all wrapped up. Perez gives Konchesky twisted blood out on the Newcastle right, clips a cross over to the far post where Cisse heads into the ground, and it bounces over when he perhaps should have at least hit the target.
Smashing keeping from Krul - a corner comes over and falls to Vardy, but his powerful shot is battered clear by the Dutch keeper.
Leicester go close again. Haidara is caught out of position on the Newcastle left and Nugent breaks down the flank. He lifts a cross into the box but it’s just behind Vardy in the middle, and he can’t direct a shot at goal.
Leicester’s Esteban Cambiasso - still a deeply weird thing to write - goes off, to be replaced by the altogether more flash Anthony Knockeart.
Leicester almost get in behind the Newcastle defence. A long pass over the top finds Ulloa, but his first-touch is very heavy and it trickles through to Tim Krul in the Newcastle nets.
GOAL! Newcastle 1-0 Leicester (Obertan 71)
That is not a typo, and it was a pretty good goal too, as Gabriel Obertan picks up the ball and cuts in from the left, beats one man on the edge of the box then drilling in a low finish, into the bottom corner of the net. That’s his first goal in two years.
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