‘We fight to the end’, says Newcastle ‘talisman’ Guimaraes

Newcastle United’s passing was quickly approaching.

The hosts were preparing for a poor 1-1 draw against Fulham at St James’ Park with 90 minutes remaining.

However, Bruno Guimaraes, the captain, maintained his convictions.

The Brazilian was trying his hardest to influence the outcome with his mentality and fitness.

When visiting keeper Bernd Leno was unable to parry substitute William Osula’s shot into the path of the midfielder, Guimaraes lashed the ball into the net in front of the Gallowgate End, the crowd was in wistful.

He said, “We can’t play the game the way it always will, but we must find the three points,” and we succeeded in doing this. “We fight until the very end, Newcastle,” I recall.

After being the target of late sucker punches against Brighton, Arsenal, and Liverpool this season, Fulham’s players appeared understandably disoriented, and their counterparts are aware of this.

However, Eddie Howe’s team rallied on Saturday to take all three points with a stunning victory.

Other people stepped up this afternoon.

In the Premier League, Nick Woltemade had scored four of Newcastle’s previous five goals.

However, his team did not have their record-keeping printed on the scoresheet when they won their first top-flight game this year.

The forward was Newcastle’s biggest threat in the first half when he opened the scoring, scoring his first of the campaign.

In the opening moments, he struck the post outside, but Leno had better have doubled the lead when he had been knocked down.

Howe had the luxury of turning to a stacked bench right away following Sasa Lukic’s equalizer, but Newcastle’s failure to capitalize on Murphy’s opener might have cost them.

The arrival of energetic forwards Anthony Elanga and Osula late on followed a triple change, sending on Sandro Tonali, Harvey Barnes, and Fabian Schar for Lewis Miley, Murphy, and Sven Botman, who had to go off with a cut.

Marco Silva, the manager of Fulham, was forced to hold his hands up in the absence of a number of injured players.

He claimed that they began to take greater risks. They “pressed us higher,” they said. They worked hard on the frontline. All three of the frontline players were able to be replaced.

In the lead up to Newcastle’s winner, Elanga and Osula ultimately played significant roles.

Before feeding Osula out to the right, Swede Elanga dispossessed Fulham defender Ryan Sessegnon.

The Danish frontman drove forward before cutting inside and letting fly from the edge of the area as he matured into a player capable of playing games at this level. He scored against champions Liverpool earlier this year.

Guimaraes knocked in the rebound when Newcastle desperately needed their captain, despite Leno making the initial save.

Michael Carrick, a Match of the Day pundit, made no mistake when Guimaraes played 90 minutes of his team’s match against Benfica on Tuesday night.

According to the former Manchester United midfielder, “He always provides that leadership on the pitch.” He serves as the stadium’s talisman and adds that extra energy when the fans are turned up. For Newcastle, it has a big, big goal.

Newcastle moved up to 10th place as a result of that goal.

Of course, that’s not where they want to go, but this still felt significant.

In addition to claiming three victories, three draws, and three losses in the Premier League last season, Newcastle also qualified for the Champions League, putting an end to a 70-year search for a significant domestic trophy.

And Howe believes that “the best is still in store for us.”

When you score late goals, “we have seen many times historically, it’s not just the game you’ve won,” he continued.

There’s more faith that you can find a winner, that you have players who can decide games, in our opinion, if the mood, even the attitude are changed once more while we’re in that position.