Newcastle United and Manchester City played out a pulsating match and shared six goals in the most entertaining match we’ve seen this weekend.Sunday afternoon should be a quiet time to spend with your family and friends in peace and quiet, but it seems that nobody’s told that to the people of Newcastle and Manchester. It was an electric atmosphere at St James’ Park on a day where Newcastle’s ambitious project got the ultimate test – a match with the best team in the country.Last season, City won both games against the black and whites with a combined scoreline of 9-0. After just five minutes, Ilkay Gundogan was left all alone in the box, and he scored easily to make more than 50,000 people in the stands fear that they’ll spend another Sunday afternoon watching their beloved Magpies suffer against Pep Guardiola and his sky blues.But the home team wasn’t ready to surrender. Eddie Howe’s men slowly pushed forward and threatened the visiting defence, with Allan Saint-Maximin and Miguel Almiron as the main threats. The latter had already wasted a great chance earlier, blasting over the bar with the goal at his mercy, but he managed to bundle over the line to level.The black and whites turned the game around when Callum Wilson ran onto a Saint-Maximin pass and beat Ederson as St James’ Park erupted.Newcastle’s captain scored a fantastic free kick ten minutes after the break to make it 3-1 and trigger what resembled a state of euphoria among the home fans. However, if there is a team capable of coming back from two goals behind – well, you know which team is that.Erling Haaland and Bernardo Silva scored in space of just three minutes to make the score 3-3 with around half an hour left in the game. Non-stop action ensured this was already the best match of the season so far – and there was more to come!Trippier halted one of the numerous City attacks when he slid in late on Kevin De Bruyne and was shown a direct red card. However, after the Australian referee Jarred Gillett reviewed the video evidence, he changed his decision to only a yellow.The home team ran out of energy as the minutes went on and City looked like the team most likely to find what would be a dramatic winning goal. However, the brave hosts managed to hang on and claim a respectable draw.ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 3SaturdayTottenham – Wolverhampton 1-0 (0-0)/Kane 64/Crystal Palace – Aston Villa 3-1 (1-1)/Zaha 7, 58, Mateta 71 – Watkins 5/Everton – Nott.Forest 1-1 (0-0)/Gray 88 – Johnson 81/Fulham – Brentford 3-2 (2-1)/Reid 1, Palhinha 20, Mitrovic 90 – Norgaard 44, Toney 71/Leicester – Southampton 1-2 (0-0)/Maddison 54 – Adams 68, 84/Bournemouth – Arsenal 0-3 (0-2)/Odegaard 5, 11, Saliba 54/Sunday Leeds – Chelsea 3-0 (2-0)/Aaronson 33, Rodrigo 37, Harrison 69/West Ham – Brighton 0-2 (0-1)/Mac Allister 20 pen, Trossard 66/Newcastle United – Manchester City 3-3 (2-1)/Almiron 28, Wilson 39, Trippier 54 – Gundogan 5, Haaland 60, Bernardo 64/Monday 22.00: (5.70) Man.Utd. (4.20) Liverpool (1.63)***odds are subject to change
