Newcastle United now need one win to secure Champions League qualification after beating Chelsea 2-0.
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00:00Newcastle United 2, Chelsea 0-0 at St James Paul, Southampton, and that is a massive win for Newcastle United.
00:08They now only need one win from their final two games to seal a return to the Champions League there.
00:14We'll see Eddie Howell with my shoulder there, he's just done his TV duties with TNT Sports.
00:19It was his tactics in the first half that I thought actually bamboozled Chelsea.
00:25Injuries to Kieran Trippiart and Joe Willock, seeing Sven Bartman and Anthony Gordon come back in the side.
00:30Newcastle lined up in the back five, and Chelsea really didn't plan for that, and they could tell.
00:35They had to spend pretty much the first half an hour trying to work out what Newcastle were actually trying to do.
00:41So yeah, Newcastle made a really quick start, Sandro, Tenali, Tim, Martin opens the scoring, Newcastle could have scored more.
00:48But in the red card happens, Nicholas Jackson, clear red card, actually looks at Sven Bartman before I'll run him in the face.
00:55So Newcastle have a man advantage at that point, and I thought in the second half, Newcastle would come out for the kill, get that kill out, second goal.
01:02Didn't quite happen that way, Chelsea were actually the better team, didn't create too many chances.
01:08Had a lot of possession, didn't create too many chances.
01:09But that said, Nick Pope did make two massive saves to deny Mark Cucurea and Enzo Fernandes.
01:15So really two important stops for him, Newcastle dug in, and then managed to seal it in the 90th minute.
01:22Bruno Gimaraesha's deflected shot over Robert Sanchez into the top corner.
01:27So with that, yeah, Newcastle, as I say, the performance as a whole, really good first half.
01:32A really good first half an hour, tailed off from then, second half, weren't the best, didn't really control the game very, very well.
01:38But they've only came away with three points, and at this stage of the season, that's all that matters because, as I say, Newcastle only had one win from the final two games to seal the return of the Champions League.
01:48And, yeah, it was a straight shootout today.
01:52Both teams probably separated in the league table, can't now, didn't at the time.
01:57Level on points, level on goal difference, only goals scored.
01:59Put Newcastle above Chelsea in fourth, Chelsea obviously sitting in fifth.
02:03So it was a big game in the context of that, and Newcastle managed to move up to third in the Premier League with Man City dropping points at Southampton.
02:10So, yeah, we're in a really, really strong position now heading into the final three games.
02:13I say, the final two games, sorry, I say they only need one win.
02:17It could be less depending on results elsewhere, but, yeah, huge, huge win on Arsenal next week.