37 mins: Gaxha shot. 0-1

Half time: Magpies 0 Blades 1

Full time:  Magpies 0 Blades 1

Missing from the home squad were Lewis Miley, Alex Murphy, Dylan Stephenson, Jay Turner-Cooke and Joe White who had flown out to Riyadh with the first team.

That saw Santiago Munoz return to the U21 side for only his fifth competitive outing of the season as the sun sets on his Tyneside loan spell.

Newcastle's U21s lost their latest Premier League Cup tie at Whitley Park on Monday evening and still await their first point in this competition, having been defeated in each of their first four games.

Clad in white, the visitors had the ball in the back of the net in the sixth minute when Louie Marsh side footed home a right wing cross but was denied by an offside flag.

But the Blades did take the lead eight minutes before the interval, when a loose ball broke to Leo Gaxha and he lashed it beyond Jude Smith.

The home side's best effort in the first period was a tame Amadou Diallo free-kick midway through the half that was parried by the 'keeper and Isaac Westendorf fired the rebound into the side netting.

Seven minutes after the break Josh Scott had a long range effort turned over and in the second minute of added time a thunderous Charlie Wiggett header was saved one-handed by the 'keeper, who blocked the rebound from Munoz to secure the victory for his side.

Thanks again to GW.