Man United concedes late to draw 3-3 at Newcastle

But Newcastle hit back before half-time when Georginio Wijnaldum volleyed in emphatically after Aleksandar Mitrovic had nodded into his path.

Newcastle are clearly struggling as they have not won in their last four games in the Premier League. The game finished 3-3.

Memphis Depay of Manchester United.

With both Morgan Schneiderlin and Marouane Fellaini deployed as central midfielders, Louis van Gaal went for the cautious approach at St James’ Park.

McClaren’s side had felt aggrieved after two marginal penalty appeals on Daryl Janmaat and Jack Colback had been denied, but they had a fine spot by Dean to thank for their equaliser. Wayne Rooney has scored 12 league goals against Newcastle – more than any other team besides Aston Villa.

Serb Mitrovic then levelled from the spot after 67 minutes when Chris Smalling was penalised for pushing.

“This is what @premierleague is all about”.

Wayne Rooney was involved throughout, calmly converting his penalty, setting up Jesse Lingard for his goal and then smashing home the third. But a late leveller from Paul Dummett crashing in summed it all up.

While the recent head-to-head record doesn’t look good for Newcastle, this is a Manchester United side who are severely lacking in confidence and, while I understand why the market has them odds on at [1.84], it’s a price I am happy to lay.

“We’ve gone behind, we’ve come back and we’ve deserved to equalise at the end”.

Tough one to call here, the unders at 4/6 is probably the bet.

The Toons boss shrugged off the FA Cup defeat to Watford as he admitted that he was already concentrating on the Manchester United fixture.

“We threw it away, I have told that to my players”, Van Gaal added. “When the referee gives a penalty for nothing – it is a duel I think and you can not decide who is worse – but we gave it away”. They are very hard to score against letting in only 17 in 20 matches, but are not doing well in front of goal, only managing to score in six of their last ten league matches. The Geordies were seemingly on their way up with two crucial wins against Liverpool and Tottenham earlier, but McLaren’s side seems to have crashed again with three consecutive losses in the league. They’ve lost their last four matches, but were unlucky not to come away with anything, as they were able to create some decent chances in those matches (the match against Arsenal coming to mind in particular). “Manchester United are a quality team but at the end of the night we’ve shown what we’re all about”, said McClaren.

City bounced back from that setback with a superb 3-0 win at Norwich City in the FA Cup. “It must have been a great game for the neutral – it was a heart attack for the coaches”.