Follow Mail Sport’s live blog for the latest scores, team news and updates as Sunderland host Newcastle in the FA Cup third-round.
At least Trai Hume goes home with a souvenir…
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This will go down about as well as the black-and-white bar
One-way traffic on Wearside
Despite Sunderland’s impressive recent history of the tie and young promise, AND Newcastle’s unimpressive mid-winter showing, today’s match was as it looked on paper, in the end.
Howe wanted this fixture to be the spark to transform his side’s fortunes this season. It was the performance the statement anticipated.
NEWCASTLE BEAT SUNDERLAND 3-0 AT THE STADIUM OF LIGHT!
That’s the first time they’ve won the derby since 2011 – nine matches without a win, but there’s so much for the fans to celebrate now!
Sunderland 0-3 Newcastle
Quadruple substitution as we get three added minutes: Almiron, Schar, Gordon, Burn off, and Lascelles, Livramento, Ritchie, Dummett on.
GOAL!!! Isak buries it for his second (Isak 89′)
Right foot, cool lay-off, 3-0.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Well, here it is. Likely the nail in Sunderland’s coffin, and it feels inevitable. Penalty for the visitors after a downright wacky challenge from Ballard in the box. It’s safe to say it hasn’t been his day…
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Ba is immediately a shot in the arm for Sunderland, probing around the edge of the box as he encounters Newcastle resistance, and going for goal.
He picks up the ball again from Clarke on the right, but can’t test Dubravka.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
A change for the home side, as Rusyn is swapped for Ba.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Sunderland’s pulse and buzz of energy has, for the moment, ebbed away somewhat. Newcastle look firmly in the driver’s seat as the Black Cats try and fail to make their way up the pitch.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
What a miss from Gordon, who has an excellent chance to slide the ball past Patterson!
His shot amid scrambling defenders falls just wide of the far post.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Pritchard sends that opportunity straight to Isak’s head.
Newcastle win a freekick in their own half after Guimaraes goes down battling for the ball, and the Brazilian later sends a sumptuous long ball to Almiron running to the righthand corner.
After neutralising a strong counter from Sunderland, Newcastle counter again, and Gordon’s run is only stopped by O’Nien flying into him as if shot from a cannon. Yellow card.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Sunderland continue to see a lot of Newcastle’s half, but a quick stomp from Trippier stops Clarke in his tracks.
Rusyn wins the ball inside the half, and crosses neatly to Pritchard who fires at Dubravka, the ball springing out for a second life.
Trippier and Clarke tangle again, and this times it’s a good-looking freekick Sunderland win to left of the box.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Another yellow, this time for Guimaraes, who skittles Prtichard and doesn’t look too contrite.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Guimaraes knocks in an opening strike, but it’s Almiron who looks most dangerous with the rebound, and only a very strong bit of defending from O’Nien keeps it from being Newcastle’s third.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Newcastle have sat back a little, but it’s notable that they can sneak back possession with relative ease.
Gordon is the one to light the touchpaper, if anyone had any money of it, as he, frustrated with Hume, shoves him after missing out on a long ball from Guimaraes thanks to some shirt pulling.
He lashes out, shirt torn, and Isak sprints over the join the throng, as does Patterson. But it cools quickly, and Gordon gets the yellow.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Sunderland are taking some of the sting out of Newcastle’s game with a spell of possession, before Pitchard bursts through the midpack looking to play through hume on the right.
Newcastle defend well, but the Black Cats don’t lose hold of the ball, and set up to go again – before Jobe is felled by Gordon. Freekick just over the halfway line.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Chance for Sunderland! They’ve been few and far between but Pritchard steams away from his markers to fire over the crossbar – but only just!
It’s enough to silence the away fans for a moment, before the home fans are further reinvigorated by a hardy challenge from O’Nien on Miley.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
A round of ‘wheys’ go round the visitors, who are crowing like victors a hair before the hour mark. Sunderland are looking particularly scatty, however.
After the ball falls behind for a corner, Guimaraes goes past the dead-ball line to fire up the crowd animatedly.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Pickford in the stands looks very glum as he stares intently at his former club looking overrun by their old foe.
Burn looks to set up Gordon on the left, but they have better luck on the right when Trippier shoots a cross into the box and wins a corner from a handy Ballard block.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
The Newcastle fans are revved up now, and Sunderland look frantic to get out of their half. They’ve no luck, as Guimaraes swipes back possession looking to find Almiron on the right.
Guimaraes tries to fire at Patterson from the outside of the box, but his weak effort means little as Longstaff is flagged offside.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
‘Absolute madness!’ Ally McCoist dubs the mistake – we could be heading into ‘teaching the kids a lesson’ territory with a third.
But Sunderland head into the Newcastle to win a freekick ably, and although they can’t make much of it, the Magpies are pushed back into their own half for the first time in this 45 minutes.
Sunderland 0-2 Newcastle
Sunderland simply weren’t with it as they attempted to play out from the back, and have been sorely punished.
Joelinton is then immediately whipped off, and exchanged for Lewis Miley.
GOAL!!! Magpies double their lead double-quick (Isak 46′)
Isak must have a train to catch as he wastes no time powers into the box to catch Almiron’s cute pass after he picks Ekwah’s pocket.
Another defensive disaster as the away fans go nuts!
SECOND-HALF: Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle
The Newcastle players are back out, and Joelinton is one of them – he looks okay to continue for now.
Sunderland linger in the dressing room, and their fans can happily boo the emerging Magpies.
Once both teams are on the pitch, the visitors get us underway.
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Here are the scores for the early kick-offs as things stand.
It might as well be 1964 in the Stadium of Light for jaded Premier League viewers.
A terrible turn of events for Ballard
HALF-TIME: Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle
Joelinton makes his way onto the pitch after being sidelined for an extra 30 seconds, much to the chagrin of Newcastle fans.
But he comes on with the peep-peep of the whistle.
Eddie Howe will be delighted with that first-half showing – whilst Beale’s boys have a mountain to climb to mentally get back in the tie.
Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle
Joelinton goes down in a worrying show for Newcastle fines, clutching his lower back, where he was given a little push just over the halfway line.
Something’s troubling him in his right leg, and play halts whilst he’s tended to by physios.
Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle
That’ll be three minutes of added time, as Almiron clutches his face when his slightly wild attempt skirts just wide of the far post.
Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle
Isak concedes a freekick for interfering with Ballard and Sunderland get the chance to usher the ball into the Newcastle half for the first time in a while.
It’s been one-way traffic since the goal, and momentum remains firmly with the visitors.
Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle
Not too much, as Ballard leaps to head Trippier’s ball out away from danger – for now.
It’s the captain who takes the corner again from the right, wafting the ball out for his team-mates but none of them can keep it under control, and it’s eventually muddled over the dead-ball line for a Sunderland goalkick.
Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle
First card of the match, as Hume finally vents his fury on Gordon, who has been a pest so far and only looking stronger after Newcastle went ahead.
The Magpies now have an advantageous freekick to the left of the box. What can they make of this?
Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle
What a blow from Ballard, who has been so sturdy defensively. It will be interesting to see how Beale’s young squad keep their heads after that setback.
GOAL!!! Visitors draw first blood (Ballard OG 35′)
Hume is outsmarted by Joelinton sprinting down the left again, and he gets away with an improvement on the earlier play as he rounds the box and fires to find Isak – only for Ballard to knock the ball in off his shin!
Ruinous for Sunderland, but deserved from Newcastle.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
Gordon on the run does well to spur on the Newcastle attack picking up a clever pass from Burn, but Longstaff fluffs the ensuing cross to send the ball way over the bar.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
A freekick from Sunderland comes to naught and the ball falls back to Newcastle after some not necessarily above-board defending from Ballard.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
There’s a lot of force forward from Newcastle, but little clinical edge, and after an early Magpies attack, Sunderland are back in possession and looking to sneak up on the right.
Ekwah moves the ball to Alese, who finds a running Clarke. But he’s given it away, and Isak is on the run!
The Swede looks to sneak through on goal, but some last ditch defending from Ballard fells Isak in the box.
It’s very clever defending, and Sunderland avoid a goal – or a penalty.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
Ekwah picks up the ball over the halfway line as Sunderland edge forward looking to test the Newcastle defence.
In the end, the ball springs back to him and he flies the ball forward over a distance looking for a Bellingham sprint into the box, but Dubravka is off his line to leap and catch the effort.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
Cries for a handball after Guimaraes’ shot is blocked by some strong defending by Ballard, but it gets him in the chest mostly, and Ally McCoist speaks for everyone that it’s ‘never a penalty’.
Jobe sprints into the Newcastle half but he’s tracked closely by Almiron and bullied off the ball.
Longstaff and Alese clatter into one another going for the ball. Everyone will be going home a little bruised from this encounter, one thinks.
Chance for Longstaff, but a heavy defensive presence in the box sees his chance skied over the crossbar.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
Isak goes to poach a ball back to Patterson, who boots it down into the Newcastle half.
Clarke is the first player to really sink his teeth into a member of the opposition, as he flies towards Botman studs first to catch him on the top of his boot as he puts the ball away.
Botman stays down in apparent agony for some time, but the refere decides not penalise the youngster with anything more than a freekick conceded.
Fans raise ‘blood money’ protest posters in the crowd
I wonder if Sunderland have anything to say about their loathed rivals’ ownership group?
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
A fast-thinking block from Ballard sends the ball out for a corner, which Newcastle take short and can’t send in much further than 25 yards.
Jobe concedes a freekick halfway inside the Sunderland half, which Trippier fancies.
But the ensuing strike is feather-light, and Patterson can gather up the ball at his leisure.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
O’Nien sticks an errant leg in front of Isak who tumbles over it for a Newcastle freekick that gives them time to rearrange. Again, they try and forge forward, but they’re seized upon by swarming Sunderland, who immediately force Newcastle back as they take possession on the right.
Cries for a foul go up as Newcastle snatch the ball back level with the box, but their pleas are waved away.
This is feisty stuff early on – long may it last.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
Joelinton pulls down an excellent long ball from Burn deep in the Sunderland half but Newcastle can’t hold onto it as Pritchard sneaks the ball over the halfway line.
Clarke springs into action sprinting from the left to the edge of the box for his own high ball, but the long pass is overcooked and it rolls out of play. Beale will hope the player is at his threatening best this afternoon.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
A brief pause in play as the referee summons his officials – tech issues, those traumatised by VAR-related stoppages will be relieved about.
No wonder. It’s a miracle anyone can hear themselves think inside the Stadium of Light.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
No time wasted from the youngsters either, who come to life on the right as Rusyn tries to round his opposite man.
Sunderland are deep in the Newcastle half now, and the ground is already in full voice roaring them on.
A flinty tackle on the edge of the box is cheered, and the ball rolls out for another well-applauded Newcastle goalkick.
Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
Newcastle are the first to get away down the right, winning a corner that Trippier fires into the box. Jobe knocks the ball out, but Newcastle catch the rebound to trouble again on the edge of the box.
A high ball loops in for Almiron, and Longstaff almost skitters the ball past Patterson! It’s a bright, frantic start from the visitors, but Sunderland stamp out most of the danger and release the ball down the right.
Kick-off! Sunderland 0-0 Newcastle
Commentary is almost unintelligble as the ground roars the mascots of the pitch and the two teams line up against one another.
It’s the home side that get us underway, in their red and white stripes. Newcastle are in their home kit too. Let’s not mix them up.
Roy Keane’s already hoarse!
Dance of the Knights is blaring, Sunderland’s shiny Christmas wrapping-style flags are flying, and the players are gathered in the tunnel.
Less than five minutes until kick-off!
Michael Beale speaks to ITV
‘It’s special to both sides and special to people in the north east. It’s too different teams; one that has been heavily invested in and a young one that is doing well in the Championship.’
Opportunity for Sunderland players: ‘It’s an opportunity for them and they are there to be taken. What an opportunity for them. Certainly a derby at home, you don’t get a better opportunity than that.’
Sunderland game plan: ‘We play a lot on the floor and we play a lot of combination play, it’s vital we stay true to that. We’ve had some clean sheets and I’ve been pleased with that.’
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Eddie Howe speaks to ITV
Importance of match: ‘We’ve got a lot of local players in the squad who know exactly what this means.’
Kieran Trippier’s return: ‘It’s a huge boost because of his vast experience and his quality can make a huge difference to any team.’
On playing to best ability: ‘We have to focus on the principles of our game and get our game going. It will give us the best chance and that’s what we have to do.’
On keeping discipline: ‘We have to focus on that and keep 11 men on the pitch.’
Importance of FA Cup: ‘It’s hugely important, we want the players to play free but it is an extremely important moment in our season.’
Can Pickford bring some of that 3-0 magic to Wear-Tyne from the stands?
Everton’s ‘keeper has been spotted at the home of his boyhood club ahead of kick-off.
Roy Keane opines on the scent of the derby
You can smell it, It’s in the air when you’re driving up to the game to support this afternoon. the atmosphere supporters in the ground so early. Certainly Sunderland, Sunderland fans already let’s hope the players.
There’s a lot of stake (as a manager) obviously I did not know much before I came up here but when you’re up there you soon realise what it means to supporters.
I was involved for Celtic against Rangers, United against City and it’s up there with them for the local supporters.
There’s a fear factor in case you lose but if you can get a victory today for the Sunderland perspective, obviously against Newcastle, you can change the momentum of your season.
Head-to-head: How Newcastle and Sunderland’s seasons stack up
How instrumental with one of Sunderland’s youngest recruits be today?
Going by the mononymous Jobe rather than weighing himself down with his surname, the Magpies may have tried and failure to lure the teenager to St James’ Park.
Read more from Craig Hope below.
Atmosphere rising at the Stadium of Light
A huge roar welcome the Sunderland players onto the pitch.
Just over half-an-hour to go until kick-off.
Player to watch: Jack Clarke
Sunderland have a squad chockful of emerging talent, and regularly field the youngest starting XI in the Championship.
A relative elder at 23, Clarke has been in rip-roaring form on the left wing and will represent a standout threat for Howe’s side.
The list of players who have represented both Sunderland and Newcastle is vast but arguably none have caused more controversy than Lee Clark. The man who went from local fan favourite at Newcastle to the villain at Sunderland.
Clark came through the ranks at his boyhood club, making over 200 appearances for Newcastle before making the move to Sunderland in 1997.
After two successful years bridging the Tyne-Wear divide and taking Sunderland back to the Premier League, it all came crashing down when the midfielder was pictured in London wearing a ‘Sad Mackem B*****d’ t-shirt with Newcastle fans before their 1999 FA Cup final at Wembley.
Newcastle hierarchy are in the building
Led by the unflappable Amanda Staveley, they get exactly the sort of welcome they would have expected.
Mike Ashley was barred from wearing a Magpies jersey when he visited the Stadium of Light, and the club director toes the line in a pointed black dress with white piping.
Tripper takes back the armband
Today’s captain was an injury doubt, but Howe backs his man to start and move on from a tricky December.
He remains the arguably talismanic purchase of the PIF era, but can he help the side pull off a win in testing conditions today?
Here, Sofascore runs the rules over his season so far.
It was the night the heavens opened and hell descended on Newcastle. Forget Tyne-Wear hostilities, it was the civil war between Ruud Gullit and Alan Shearer that blew a hole in the derby of 1999.
The Dutch boss named England’s captain on the bench and started instead with rookie Paul Robinson, a Sunderland fan, in attack. Duncan Ferguson was also kept in reserve, while Tommy Wright was in goal. Many fans arrived at St James’ Park not realising Wright had re-signed on an emergency loan.
When the line-ups were revealed in the press room, one journalist famously remarked: ‘That’s not a team sheet, it’s a suicide note.’
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Sean Longstaff speaks to ITV
Longstaff the elder was finishing his last season in Newcastle’s youth side the last time this time was played.
It is an image of extraordinary and atmospheric beauty. A study in monochrome which distils the essence of this weekend — FA Cup third-round weekend — and captures with its snow, its steam, its masses muffled up against the cold in an unfamiliar and evocative place, the most precious moment of our football year.
Bradford City v Brentford, played out in January 1955, against the backdrop of the Valley Road Power Station, the terraced back-to-backs of Manningham Lane and advertising hoardings promoting ointment, beer and crisps, has not lived on in third-round legend.
But behind the image of the Lowryesque match-stick men, fighting it out on a snow-bound surface with line markings dug out of the white, is the story of the titanic struggles of two clubs cast into the limelight and desperate to stay there for just a few weeks longer..
Confirmation: Boyhood fan extremely up for the derby
Rather than stare stone-facedly towards the player entrance, Airpod Max headphones firmly clamped over each ear, Dan Burn made the most of things with a deliciously villainous gesture.
Scroll down for Craig Hope’s video from the scene for the full immersive experience.
Eddie Howe says he does not seek daily reassurance from Newcastle’s owners over his job security – but admits a Wear-Tyne derby win would be the ‘spark’ his team needs.
The Magpies have lost seven of their last eight games and, while the head coach retains the support of fans and the club’s hierarchy, another defeat at the Stadium of Light could change the mood on Tyneside.
Bur rather than meet the FA Cup third-round tie with trepidation, Howe sees it as an opportunity.
Newcastle writer Craig Hope is travelling with the visitors today
I’d put the language warning at a tentative 12A.
History debates when exactly the divide between Sunderland and Newcastle began to fester, but its roots are fiercely economic, based in Newcastle’s monopoly on the coal trade, granted by royal permission.
The neighbour’s boom was Sunderland’s bust, and when the English Civil War started, the two cities took up arms against one another as Cavaliers and Roundheads…
Relations are no less strained 372 years later…
Last time out…
As harrowing as it might feel to some readers (and writers), 2016 was nearly eight years ago, and there have been wholesale changes at both Sunderland and Newcastle.
But the Black Cats will no doubt be keen to remind their loathed opposition that they’ve gone without a win in their most recent nine match-ups.
The solitary bright spot for the Magpies came with Newcastle ending their losing streak thanks to an equaliser courtesy of self-proclaimed ‘Geordie boy’ Aleksandar Mitrovic – who was forced to play over-under with jubliant fan who ran to celebrate with the Serbian on the pitch… only to slip on the overwatered turf.
Mail Sport’s Aadam Patel is on the scene at St James’ Park
Travelling fans have been banned from taking public transport to the tie by Northumbria Police in a bid to avoid clashes on the Metro, so it was a bright and early start across the Tyne for the visitors.
North-east rivals Sunderland and Newcastle United meet in a crunch FA Cup third round clash this Saturday lunchtime – and we can be assured no quarter will be given.
Down the years, both clubs have enjoyed magical moments in the world’s oldest and greatest knockout competition.
Newcastle have six cup wins to their credit but they haven’t lifted the famous trophy since way back in 1955…
Creative taunts from the travelling fans
Beyonce last played at the Stadium of Light before her sold-out May 2023 date in…. 2016.
No need to adjust your screens
First, a little context on the tie’s most recent round of controversy…
Sunderland fas were forced to do a double-take when images began circulating of Newcastle’s decorations in the away fans’ hospitality bar on Thursday afternoon but their eyes didn’t deceive them – things were black and white on Wearside.
Cue mass uproar from one set of supporters, widespread gloating from another, and a sheepish apology from Sunderland’s hierarchy.
Catch up on Mail Sport’s reporting on one particularly unwanted makeover below.
Good morning!
Hello and welcome to Mail Sport’s live coverage of the FA Cup derby clash between Sunderland and Newcastle, kicking off this afternoon at the Stadium of Light at 12.45pm.
This one should be one for the books. The Tyne-Wear – or more specifically, Wear-Tyne – derby hasn’t been played for eight years, and this is the first iteration of the clash under both of the clubs’ new owners.
Fans are primed, Northumbria Police are primed, and we’re primed for an enormous Third Round fixture, so make sure to stick around as we give you all the build-up, team news, and more ahead this afternoon’s action.
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Sunderland 0-3 Newcastle – FA Cup third-round: Live score, team news and updates as Alexander Isak scores from the spot to cement the Magpies’ place in the fourth round