Newcastle 4: Leicester 0: Toon’s top stars turn up to rip Foxes to shreds and burst Van Nistelrooy’s new-manager bubble
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Sponsored by. NEWCASTLE’S top stars turned up and delivered to kick off the biggest week of their season so far in a Ruud awakening for Van Nistelrooy at Leicester. The Manchester United legend watched on in horror as his team capitulated at St. James’ Park as ruthless Toon tore them to shreds as he suffered his first defeat in charge.
![[Alexander Isak celebrates bagging the third Newcastle goals]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alexander-isak-newcastle-united-celebrates-957424778.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Jacob Murphy grabbed two while Bruno Guimaraes and Alexander Isak scored as finally Eddie Howe’s top talents turned on the magic against a struggling side. They’ve threatened to do it several times this term without success, and their lack of clinicalness has proven costly over recent weeks.
![[Isak headed the second of the Toon's three second-half strikes]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alexander-isak-newcastle-united-scores-957425047.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But everything went right for them here and they now head into Wednesday’s Carabao Cup quarter-final with Brentford full of confidence. Anthony Gordon admitted this week that all the talk of a summer move to Liverpool had affected his form this season as he asked to be left alone to just enjoy his football.
![[Jacob Murphy hails rounding off the scoring with his second goal]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/jacob-murphy-newcastle-united-celebrates-957428572.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
And he looked to be doing exactly that early on when he got the crowd going by cutting in from the left and unleashing a powerful strike straight towards the top corner. Mads Hermansen made a flying save to tip that one wide and Dan Burn headed over from the resulting corner as the Magpies continued to build up momentum.
![[New chief Ruud van Nistelrooy saluted Leicester fans after defeat]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ruud-van-nistelrooy-manager-leicester-957443776.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
