Jacob Murphy scored twice as Newcastle United rediscovered their killer contact to sentence Leicester Metropolis to a 4-0 Premier League defeat at St James’ Park.

Murphy rounded off a brilliantly labored set-piece to open the scoring and, after Bruno Guimaraes and Alexander Isak had put the sport out of sight, wrapped up victory with the fourth.

It was only a third win in 12 league video games for the Magpies and eased a few of the stress on head coach Eddie Howe, whereas Ruud van Nistelrooy suffered his first defeat since taking cost of Leicester.

In reality, the margin may have been considerably larger on a day when Howe’s males have been completely dominant in entrance of a crowd of 52,235 at St James’ Park as they set themselves up properly for Wednesday’s Carabao Cup quarter-final conflict with Brentford on Tyneside.

Foxes goalkeeper Mads Hermansen needed to make the sport’s first save, a shocking one-handed cease to maintain out Anthony Gordon’s powerfully struck eighth-minute shot after the England winger had labored his means into the field.

Joelinton twice fired firmly at Hermansen after exchanging passes with Gordon down the left, and though Lewis Corridor needed to block Bilal El Khannouss’ shot after Hamza Choudhury had run into house and picked him out, the site visitors remained largely one-way.

The sport was being performed virtually solely contained in the Leicester half, and the hosts lastly received their reward on the half-hour mark with a transfer straight from the coaching floor.

Corridor performed a nook brief to the influential Sandro Tonali, who slipped it inside to Gordon and appeared on as he lower the ball again to Murphy to slip it first-time previous Hermansen and into the underside nook.

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It ought to have been 2-0 eight minutes earlier than the break after Tonali and Joelinton mixed to carve a path by the guts of the Metropolis defence, however Isak’s controlling contact proved considerably higher than his end, which allowed the keeper to avoid wasting comfortably.

Hermansen was changed by Danny Ward on the break, however he was selecting the ball out of his internet inside two minutes from one other tremendous set-piece transfer when the unmarked Corridor despatched Gordon’s free-kick again throughout objective for Guimaraes to move residence.

Ward’s afternoon took an additional flip for the more severe simply 4 minutes after his arrival when Conor Coady may solely assist Corridor’s cross on to Isak, who headed into the gaping internet for his seventh objective in 9 video games.

Murphy might need doubled his tally by rounding off Isak’s mesmerising 52nd-minute run, however he shot simply too excessive.

The guests threatened briefly, with Kasey McAteer twice taking purpose at Martin Dubravka’s objective in fast succession, earlier than Isak drilled a 57th-minute try straight at Ward after he, Joelinton, Guimaraes and Murphy had triggered havoc as soon as once more.

Murphy did apply the required end to Isak’s inch-perfect move to make it 4-0 on the hour and permit Howe to make use of his bench to relaxation key males.

Substitute Harvey Barnes was twice denied by Ward as he tried to extend his former membership’s struggling, however the win had lengthy been secured.