After a dream start as Everton manager in the FA Cup, defeating Brentford 4-1, Frank Lampard now goes in search of his first Premier League three points as Blues boss.
Everton will be hoping that Saturday’s emphatic victory – that has set up another Goodison Park tie in the last 16 against non-league Boreham Wood who stunned Championship side Bournemouth 1-0 on Sunday evening – has now got them back in the winning habit to enable them to start climbing the table.
The Blues know that defeat at Newcastle United would leave the Magpies, currently second bottom, just a point behind them in the table but St James’ Park is something of a happy hunting ground for the visitors in recent years.
Indeed, Everton have won there five times over the past decade so here’s a look back at the times they have been ‘Toon Raiders.’
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January 2, 2013: Newcastle United 1 Everton 2
Everton got what proved to be David Moyes’ last year as Blues boss off to a flier but they had to recover from an early setback at St James’ Park.
Just two minutes into the contest, Papiss Cisse headed Newcastle United in front after Sylvain Distin and John Heitinga collided.
However, the Blues drew level in spectacular fashion two minutes before the break with arguably Leighton Baines’ greatest-ever strike for the club.
The left-back found his spot in magnificent fashion with a 30-yard free-kick that gave Tim Krul no chance.
Substitute Victor Anichebe then struck the winner on the hour mark, just 90 seconds after replacing Steven Naismith, converting Nikica Jelavic’s cross from close range.
It was a particularly sweet victory given home manager Alan Pardew’s dig at the end of the previous season when his Newcastle side finished fifth – two places above Moyes’ men – and he claimed his side were now 'in a different league' from Everton.
March 25, 2014: Newcastle United 0 Everton 3
If the previous visit to St James’ Park brought Baines’ greatest goal for the club, here was Ross Barkley’s.
The Blues midfielder broke the deadlock midway through the first half when he trapped the ball inside his own half, over 60 yards away from the Newcastle United goal, before dribbling all the way into the home side’s penalty area, taking out three opposition defenders in the process, including Fabricio Coloccini, who ended up on his backside, before effortlessly planting a left-foot finish into the roof of Krul’s net.
With John Stones, sporting a large bandage on his forehead after an aerial clash with Luuk de Jong, marshalling the visitors’ defence, Everton were able to pick their hosts off at will and Romelu Lukaku doubled their advantage on 52 minutes, striking from the edge of the six-yard box after being fed by a right wing cross by Gerard Deulofeu.
Leon Osman completed the rout three minutes before full-time, with Deulofeu and Lukaku again combining in the build-up.
December 26, 2015: Newcastle United 0 Everton 1
If Roberto Martinez’s first success with Everton had been emphatic, the Catalan was left sweating on this one before Tom Cleverley gave the travelling Blues a late Christmas present deep into stoppage time.
In the 93 rd minute, the midfielder headed in his first goal for the club with a looping effort after home keeper Rob Elliot had raced off his line to punch away Deulofeu’s corner kick, sparking jubilant scenes among the visitors and securing a first win in five games.
December 13, 2017: Newcastle United 0 Everton 1
Another festive single-goal success for Everton in the frozen north – well Tyneside.
A third clean sheet in four games since Sam Allardyce’s arrival helped secure a first away win since January, which ironically came against a Crystal Palace side managed by Allardyce.
Wayne Rooney’s close-range strike, his ninth of the season (deployed largely in midfield by Allardyce, there would only be one more to come – from the penalty spot in the next game at home to Swansea) proved the difference on 27 minutes with the hosts being reduced to 10 men in the final seconds as former Liverpool midfielder Jonjoe Shelvey was sent off for an ugly lunge on Idrissa Gueye.
December 28, 2019: Newcastle United 1 Everton 2
The Blues made it a Yuletide hat-trick at St James’ Park in little more than four years (there’d been no visit in 2016/17 because Rafa Benitez had taken Newcastle United down to the Championship) as the team continued their revival under Carlo Ancelotti.
Boosted by a 1-0 home victory over Burnley on Boxing Day, thanks to Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s diving header, the Sheffield-born centre-forward proved to be the match-winner again.
Everton’s number 9, of whom Ancelotti declared: “I think he is going to be at the top in England and in Europe. He has all the qualities to be a top striker”, fired the visitors ahead on 13 minutes with a real poacher’s finish.
Fabian Schar equalised for the hosts on 56 minutes, with a volley from an Andy Carroll nod-down but the Blues weren’t to be denied and eight minutes later Calvert-Lewin struck again, sliding in and scrambling home from Richarlison’s right wing delivery.
