Newcastle battle back before losing on penalties

Newcastle United were knocked out of the Carabao Cup last night when they lost their second-round tie against Leicester City on penalties. The all-premier League tie at St James’ Park needed a shootout to decide the winner after the match had finished 1-1.

The hosts fell behind in unfortunate circumstances 11 minutes before the break. Jonjo Shelvey was penalisedforatriponyouri Tielemans and James Maddison saw his freekick take a wicked deflection off the defensive wall and completely wrongfoot Karl Darlow as it flew into the net.

Newcastle were level within eight minutes of the restart after the visitors were caught out by Fabian Schar’s deep free-kick. Jetro Willems went to ground under Ricardo Pereira’s challenge as he tried to control the ball on his chest and Yoshinori Muto stabbed the loose ball past Kasper Schmeichel from close range to level.

But Newcastle’s good work was undone in the penalty shootout, Steve Bruce’s men losing 4-2 after Schmeichel saved from Shelvey and Isaac Hayden.

Elsewhere, Mark Travers saved three penalties as Bournemouth scraped through after being held 0-0 by Forest Green.

Everton’s 4-2 win at Lincoln meant they were the only top-flight club to make it through in regulation time, with Burnley beaten 3-1 by League One Sunderland at Turf Moor.

Portsmouth made it through with a 2-0 victory at QPR and the pick of the third-round ties is their south-coast derby against Southampton.