Newcastle United U21s bowed out of the Northumberland Senior Cup after a quarter-final defeat at Whitley Bay FC. The young Magpies have now lost four on the bounce after being beaten 3-1 by their non-league opponents.
Given the short turnaround from Monday night's defeat to Crystal Palace, Elliott Dickman made wholesale changes to his starting eleven. Harry Barclay, Dylan Stephenson, Jay Turner-Cooke, and Joe White all dropped down to the bench, while recent signing Amadou Diallo was handed a first start since signing a deal until the end of the season.
Whitley Bay compete in the ninth-tier of English football, but unsettled the visitors and raced into a two-goal lead at the interval courtesy of Lewis Orrell and Andrei Arledean. The Magpies improved after the break and pulled one back through Michael Ndiweni, but were condemned to defeat by a superb late strike from Malcolm Morie.
