For Newcastle, it was a tale of three of their strikers and if it is a simplification to call them past, present and future, victory came courtesy of the man who could be leading the line for them long into the 2020s. The cult of the centre-forward may be stronger at St James’ Park than most other places, and the most expensive in Newcastle’s history scored a potentially invaluable goal.
Alexander Isak is the club’s record signing and just his second goal at St James’ Park, four months and a serious hamstring injury after the first, meant he succeeded where Aleksandar Mitrovic and Callum Wilson failed, and scored a legitimate goal, ending Fulham’s resistance, sparing Newcastle a third successive stalemate and taking them above Manchester United in the table.
