Rafael Benítez has pledged to ban alcohol during Newcastle’s impending warm-weather training trip to Alicante but he may now be tempted to relax that ruling.
A thoroughly restorative win featuring two goals from the gifted loanee winger Kenedy not only assuaged his side’s relegation anxieties but exacerbated Southampton’s own fears of falling into the Championship.
Mauricio Pellegrino’s side have now won only one of their last 17 league games and, with Mario Lemina and company well off the pace, they seemed to surrender here. Pellegrino was subjected to chants of “you don’t know what you’re doing” from visiting fans and later acknowledged that his side had given up.
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Dominant in central midfield against opponents apparently averse to competing for second balls, Newcastle’s duo of Mohamed fotbollströja Diamé and Jonjo Shelvey, impressive as they were, have rarely enjoyed such a straightforward afternoon.
“I’m really disappointed,” said Pellegrino, who worked under Benítez at Liverpool and Internazionale. “We were never a threat to Newcastle. I must apologise to our supporters because we did not represent our club well enough. You can have good players but without personality it’s really difficult to compete. We have to switch on our spirit. The players are intelligent; they know what they did.”
While Pellegrino grimly nodded agreement with a reporter’s assertion that Southampton had “given up”, Benítez’s relief was obvious. “We still have to win two or three games but we had control today,” said the Newcastle manager. “Kenedy’s using his quality to make a difference to us.”
Southampton manager Mauricio Pellegrino has won only five Premier League games this season. Photograph: Scott Heppell/Reuters
The same goes for Shelvey. In the second minute he lifted a long pass in Kenedy’s direction and the Chelsea loanee responded by chesting it down, swivelling imperiously past Cédric, who was too tight, and guiding a shot into the bottom corner.
The frown creasing Pellegrino’s forehead deepened when Kenedy soon scored a second. It was initiated by Ayoze Pérez, who broke from deep after the unconvincing Lemina, under pressure from Diamé, failed to win a header following a Southampton corner. A wonderfully fast, fluent attacking move concluded with Dwight Gayle unselfishly sliding a first-time pass to Kenedy, whose left foot did the rest.
If Shelvey’s through-balls continually caught the eye, Diamé’s somewhat less showy display alongside him arguably proved fotbollströjor barn just as important. With the Senegal international diligently protecting his defence by destroying Southampton attacks at the source, Pellegrino’s horizon looked as bleak as the Tyneside skies.
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Icy rain was falling when Matt Ritchie registered a third and Shelvey was once again the provider. After deceiving Southampton’s defence by shaping to shoot, his pass picked up the unmarked Ritchie whose low, side-footed shot defied the goalkeeper, Alex McCarthy.
By the time Guido Carrillo dodged Jamaal Lascelles and unleashed Southampton’s first shot on target, directing it straight at Martin Dubravka, almost an hour had passed.
If that faulty connection seemed emblematic of Pellegrino’s afternoon, Newcastle head to Spain already feeling the first hint of sun on their backs at the end of a long hard winter.
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