2ND Half Newcastle 1-3 Manchester City 

77' Yaya Toure goes between the legs of a couple of Newcastle players! GOAL! 

70' Manchester City has committed 16 fouls to 6 by Newcastle.

50' GOAL! Ba and Newcastle is back in it! 

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HALFTIME

Newcastle with a poor cross--- Kill another scoring opportunity

41' Ba can't get past two Man City defenders. Newcastle had looked lazy in last possession as they played corner opportunity horribly

38' GOAL!! Javi Garcia with header. Newcastle botche clear goes in for the score! Santon gets charged with OWN GOAL

31' Tevez takes elbow to the face. A little exaggerated reaction to the hit. 

30' Ref lets physical play continue. Doesn't call foul on tough challenge. Jonas takes it to Man City territory. CISSE WITH LEFT LEG!!! Goes over cross bar

29' Man City needs two opportunities to clear the ball. . . Man City now controls in Newcastle territory. 

Free kick from about 3 yards from left corner of penalty area. 

27' Aguero misses far left! They continue to breakdown Newcastle defense with Nasri racing from the right side. Foul on Aguero. 

26' Danny Simpson gets yellow carded for kick on Silva. Free kick Man City 

25' Corner kick for Man City after Tevez pass goes off Newcastle defender. Yaya Toure puts a move on defender. Ball is cleared. Man City controls. 

24' HART WITH A RIGHT LEG SAVE!!! Ball isn't cleared. Newcastle attacks again. DIVING STOP BY HART! Still 1-0 the score. 

23' Tevez with the break away! Newcastle breaks it up. And they come racing the other way. Horrible pass to Coloccini and Nasri attempts to break up the play. Commits foul. Anita with the free kickin 

22' Man City controls on own side of the field. 

20' Newcastle gets back! A lot of contact on a play. Nasri is down as he was attempting to defend a Newcastle attack. Man City will inbound ball once medic takes a look at Nasri.

18' Newcastle breaks up another Man City attack. Bit of a lazy pass was cleared... HERE they come! SILVA to NASRI! OFF THE POST!! Aguero has ball cleared by Newcastle player as he dives... Corner kick.... Cleared

17' Man City inbounds. Once again controls and starts attacked. .. Newcastle intercepts, but ball goes out of bounds

16' Man City overwhelming Newcastle now. 

15' BALL CROSSED in front of two Man City players. Tevez can't knock it in! Pass a little too in front. Ball was way ahead of Nasri who assisted first goal.

14' Williamson takes on for the team. Knocks Tevez down in open field. Gets yellow card. Man City controls and attacks. 

12' Krul with the leg save! Man City is breaking down the Newcastle defense!

TOO EASY! GOAL! Torre with a beautiful pass and beautiful put in. Aguero with the score. 

9' Man City controls in Newcastle territory. 

7' first Man City attack is whistled off for an offside. Really close though. I would have let the play run

6' Man City able to get enough guys on defense and clear another Newcastle attack

5' free kick by Anita .... Another close call for Newcastle. Manchester City has yet to attempt a shot on goal

4' Another foul on Toure. Ref has a conversation with player.

3' Corner kick Sunderland... Hart is bumped into right pole, but able to clear the ball. Man City stels ball, but give it right back. 

2' Newcastle continues to attack. . . . Free kick for Man City after a foul on their side of the field. ... Now Man City fouls. 

1' Manchester play down. Man City clears and ALREADY HART WITH A GREAT SAVE! Hart dowve low to his right to make the stop.

0' 49 Newcastle has controlled the ball for most of the first minute

Manchester City controls and kicks off. 

Kickoff is just minutes away! 

-------------------Welcome to the live blog of Menchester City vs. Newscastle----------------------

Manchester City travels to St James' Park, home of Newcastle United, as both clubs get set to face off Saturday afternoon for their Premier League match. Join us as we will bring you colorful commentary along with a detailed play-by-play and scoring updates of this game. 

Man City comes into the matchup with the heavy artillery and the advantage as they are the second best team in the league standings. In 16  matches, Manchester City has tallied 33 points placing them six points behind the leaders, Manchester United who have 39 points through their 16 games. 

They face a Newcastle team that is in the doldrums. They're not quite good enough to be in competition, but yet, not bad enough to be consider a demotion. 

Newcastle has worked its way to 17 points in their first 16 games matches of the year.

By no means do they come into this matchup with a real chance of winning. They have no for of winning momentum to rely on as they recently won a game to prevent a losing skid from progressing. They had lost four straight games in November, but then broke that streak against Wigan with a 3-0 victory.

However, their celebration was shortlived as they dropped their match the following week to Fulham. 

If there is any positive sign for Newcastle heading into this matchup is that Manchester City hasn't been as dominant as opponents would expect. 

They are winners of just one of their last four games and their sole victory came against Wigan also. Last week they lost a derby to Manchester United in dramatic fashion as the scoreboard signaled 2-3 at the end of the match in favor of Van Persie and Co.

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