An extended week for Alan Pardew didn't deliver the victory the Newcastle United boss had a need to set any lingering relegation doubts to sleep and eliminate some of the pain that Sunderland induced in the Tyne-Wear derby last Sunday. Leading through Yoan Gouffran's early target, Newcastle lost their way in the second half and were forced to be in for a spot after Billy Jones became the first Englishman to score for West Bromwich Albion in 2013. With Wigan losing against West Ham, Newcastle are efficiently a step nearer to safety with this effect, which pulls them six points free from the bottom three, even though the group table makes for worse reading in another respect. Advantages for Stoke, Sunderland and Norwich mean Newcastle have fallen three places to 16th. Pardew, however, refused to be downbeat. "I am really pleased about a place. Where we finish provided that we are in the group, since we've got an excellent team," the Newcastle director said I do not necessarily care. "We know the club's in an excellent budget, we have got great players and if we got all of them fit we're more powerful than we're today. And consequently I would expect next year us to challenge for top level 10, not a problem. But we have surely got to stay in the section and we are still fighting that at the moment." Despite playing therefore well in the initial half and creating a few respectable odds after Gouffran's goal, Newcastle could have no complaints concerning the result. Frantically bad in the opening 45 minutes, Albion were much improved following the period, after Steve Clarke, the head coach, exchanged Claudio Yacob with Shane Long and reverted from 4-4-2 to 4-3-3. But also for a splendid preserve from Rob Eliot, who flicked James Morrison's header on the bar, Albion may have gone away with three factors. Newcastle, though, earned a sketch, and Pardew was entitled to be pleased about the way his people taken care of immediately the Sunderland debacle. "The levels of energy we had were not good enough to handle that Sunderland performance and we needed to show today that when we acquire some rest we ain't a negative team," Pardew said. "In the very first half we really should have set that sport to sleep. "The disappointment in the second half was that we never really bought the ball or made a chance to get the winning goal, we were just really holding on at the end." Gouffran's goal was a poor one to agree from Albion's perspective, with Ben Foster caught in no-man's land when the Frenchman looked Papiss CissA's cross in to the web. Newcastle were buoyant at that stage. Foster refused Steven Taylor and also scrambled a from Yohan Cabaye around the post. CissA, however, squandered the best chance when he capitalised on a poor pass by Jonas Olsson but dinked the ball over. There was conflict at the end of the very first half when Mike Jones, the referee, gave a free-kick on the edge of the location after James Perch was adjudged to have fouled Jones. The handle was demonstrably inside the place but replays also showed that Perch got a few of the ball. "I couldn't see nothing wrong with it," Pardew said. Clarke felt Perch made contact with the player before the ball. "On a later date we would have had a penalty," he said. Albion were an alternative team in the 2nd half, and there was an expression that the equaliser was coming. Elliot declined Long, and Romelu Lukaku headed against the crossbar from a maximum of two yards, before Jones completed a sweeping move ahead the Albion right. "The second half was much better, we had much more extreme and positivity about us," Clarke said.
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