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Newcastle United
2....... 
Eranio (og) '41
Shearer '52
Derby County
0 
Newcastle climbed
out of the relegation zone for the first time this season after
a comfortable
victory over fellow strugglers Derby, who fell to the position formerly
occupied by
Newcastle, 19th.
Yet another
own goal in the 99/00 season and Alan Shearers 11th league goal of
the campaign
was enough to seal the three points for Bobby Robson's men.
The whole of
St. James' Park was upstanding for the first 10 minutes of the
match, protesting
over over plans to move season ticket holders from their seats
to accommodate
corporate clients. And those who sat down during the opening
exchanges were
soon back on their feet after an announcement over the loud
speaker asking
them to be upstanding.
Robson brought Shay Given back into the starting line-up with Steve Harper
suspended for
the trip to Arsenal on Saturday, and there were three other changes
to the side
which won 2-1 in Zurich on Thursday night. Kevin Gallacher returned
as expected
in place of Silvio Maric, while Marcelino came back from injury for
Aaron Hughes.
Didier Domi,
who picked up a knock in Switzerland, was left out to hand a start for
the
first time
since August 22, 1998 to Italian Alessandro Pistone.
Despite the
protest from the stands, United flew out of the traps and pinned Derby
back inside
their own half. Pistone and Warren Barton in particular found acres of
space
down the flanks
as they linked with Solano and Kieron Dyer, and it
was the former
Ipswich winger who headed straight at keeper Russell Hoult after
Shearer headed
back Barton's cross.
Gallacher saw
a near-post flick go wide and Dyer headed over from a Shearer cross in
a
whirlwind 14
minutes. Speed was also getting well forward and he went close twice,
Eranio denying
him with a brave challenge and then the Welshman powering a diving
header off-target
when he will feel he ought to have done better.
Shearer was
causing all sort of problems for central defenders Jacob Laursen and Stefan
Schnoor but,
to their credit, the Derby men stuck to their task in the face of a stern
examination.
It took the
visitors 41 minutes to mount their first real attack when Baiano beat the
offside trap
to collect
Rory Delap's pass, but his cross was just too strong for Mikkel Beck in
the
middle.
The inevitable
breakthrough finally came just a minute later when Solano found space down
the right and
crossed low towards Shearer. Eranio managed to get in front of the England
skipper but
could only divert the ball into his own net.
Solano just
failed to take Shearer's pass in his stride as the County defence opened
up
once again on 49 minutes, but it was he who engineered the second goal
four minutes
later. Rob Lee's ball allowed the Peruvian to streak away from the blue
and yellow
shirts and he picked out Shearer at the far post to give him the simplest
of
tasks to make
it 2-0.
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