(45+1 mins Ramsey sent off, second yellow)

45+6 mins Casemiro dallied on the ball in the centre circle and was robbed by Anthony Gordon, who scampered down the left hand channel before cutting into the box and moving into the gap between  Bruno Fernandes and Noussair Mazraoui. The former inadvisably stuck out a leg to trip Gordon and referee Peter Bankes pointed to the spot.

For the ninth time this season in all competitions, Anthony Gordon stepped up to net from 12 yards, sending this spot kick into the middle of the goal. 1-0

45+9 mins Lewis Hall conceded a free kick outside his own area that Bruno Fernandes swung over from the right wing for Casemiro to head home for his second goal against Newcastle. The first had come in the Carabao Cup Final at Wembley in 2023 when he nodded in from similar distance. 1-1

Half time: Magpies 1 Red Devils 1

90 mins As described by Matthew Raisbeck on BBC Radio Newcastle:

"Here's Osula he's won it and he gives it to Trippier. Osula starts running and it's a chase after it, Maguire coming across then backs away. Osula stumbles but keeps it in, can Newcastle win it?

"Osula step overs, OSULA!!! OH MY WORD! WILLIAM OSULA! that is magical and ten man Newcastle United are going to win surely and they're going to deserve to win, with a goal that is absolutely incredible from William Osula.

"Osula is the hero at St.James' Park: off the bench, off up the line, inside, step overs and a curler across Lemmens, who was rooted to the spot it's an unbelievable goal....in the years ahead you'll remember where you were when you saw that from Osula". 2-1

Full time: Magpies 2 Red Devils 1

Eddie Howe said:

"The main emotion was trying to work out how we'd play in that second half. We wanted to regroup. I thought Jacob Ramsey's sending off was really harsh. I don't think he's looking for a penalty there.

"We knew we wouldn't have the majority of the ball and that we'd have to defend well. There have been a lot of questions about our defending lately, so it was a good opportunity to answer those questions and we did.

"At 10 men, you know your goalkeeper is going to have saves to make. He's a top-class goalkeeper with really good experience.

"We have that feeling ourselves: that everything is so hard for us, that every win is so hard to get.

"Things look like they’re conspiring against us at times, and we’ve got to really stand up and fight for everything. It’s one of those spells where we’ve found a way to lose games we shouldn’t have.

"It would have been easy for the lads to adopt a feeling of ‘Here we go again!’, and feel sorry for themselves. It was a stressful situation. We needed to be compact off the ball.

"The lines between our units were really good, we hadn’t given them a lot of space to play through us and we’d forced them wide quite well, so we wanted to keep that while changing systems. Will was the lone counter-attacker.

"We got a red card and it would have been an easy feeling for the lads to feel sorry for ourselves and think, 'Here we go again'.

"That's the biggest compliment I can give the lads: they really stood up in that second half and have all given more. They have all believed they can win the game.

Michael Carrick said: 

"We are not happy the way we played tonight.

“The way the game panned out we had it in our hands largely but credit to Newcastle and the way they approached it.

"We knew it would be tough, but we navigated the game to a position where we could kick on but we didn’t. Bitterly disappointed really.

"I don’t think it was the 10 men, we just didn’t play good enough. We can’t make excuses for that. We all take responsibility for that.

"It was just the quality of the performance, it wasn’t character or wanting to win, it’s easy to throw that just because you don’t win a game of football.

"Newcastle deserved to win tonight, it hurts me to say that. That is how it was. We need to get back to work and be better for the next game.

"We’ve lost one game, we haven’t played well enough but in the grand scheme of things we are in a decent position. Tonight hurts but we will be better for the next one.

"You have to get back at it, work hard and do the things we did to win the games we’ve won. We can do that, we are a good team, tonight wasn’t for us.

"We have to learn from it and get better for it. We had a lot of praise lately and the boys deserve it, this doesn’t change how we approach the next game. We’ve got everything to play for.”